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Yesterday Rob Reiner and his wife were found murdered in their Los Angeles home.\u00a0 They had been killed by an assailant using a knife.\u00a0 Their son, Nick has been charged for both murders.<\/p>\n
Rob Reiner was the child of Estelle and Carl Reiner.\u00a0 Carl Reiner was an award-winning actor, comedian, author, director and screenwriter.\u00a0 Over his career Mr. Reiner won numerous awards including 11 Prime Time Emmys<\/em>, a Grammy<\/em>, the Mark Twain Prize for Amerian Humor<\/em> and an induction into the Television Hall of Fame<\/em>.<\/p>\n Rob Reiner decided to follow in his father’s footsteps.\u00a0 He began getting acting roles while still in high school.\u00a0 Juggling his new found acting career with school, Rob Reiner enrolled at the UCLA Film School.\u00a0 Rob Reiner made several television guest appearances on popular shows of the day including Batman, The Andy Griffith Show<\/em> and Gomer Pyle<\/em>.\u00a0 Rob Reiner also started to appear in feature films.\u00a0 In 1968, Rob Reiner became one of the writers and actors on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour<\/em>.<\/p>\n Rob Reiner’s breakout role came when he played Mike Stivik on All in the Family<\/em>.\u00a0 Over the course of the series Mr. Reiner was nominated for five Emmys<\/em> (winning two) as well as five Golden Globe<\/em> nominations.\u00a0 In 1974, Rob Reiner directed the television movie Sonny Boy<\/em> while still co-starring in All in the Family<\/em>.\u00a0 After All in the Family<\/em> ended, Rob Reiner was co-creator of the television comedy The Super<\/em>.\u00a0 It ran for one season.\u00a0 Mr. Reiner continued to act in guest roles throughout the 1970s.<\/p>\n In 1981, Rob Reiner returned to directing with the segment Tommy Rispoli: A Man and his Music<\/em> as part of the television movie Likely Stories: Volume 1<\/em>.\u00a0 Mr. Reiner followed that up by directing This is Spinal Tap<\/em>.\u00a0 This is Spinal Tap became a huge hit.\u00a0 Rob Reiner then went on a streak.\u00a0 The next six films Rob Reiner directed were The Sure Thing, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Misery<\/em> and A Few Good Men<\/em>.\u00a0 What a run!<\/p>\n Over the course of his career Rob Reiner continued to act, direct, write and produce.\u00a0 Some of the Awards he was nominated for and\/or received include:<\/p>\n Some of the television projects that feature Rob Reiner acting include: Manhunt; Batman; Hey, Landlord <\/em>(3 episodes); The Andy Griffith Show; That Girl <\/em>(3 episodes); The Mothers-In-Law; Gomer Pyle<\/em> (3 episodes); The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour <\/em>(5 episodes); The Beverly Hillbillies<\/em> (2 episodes); Room 222; The Partridge Family; Getting Together; The Odd Couple; The Rockford Files; Free Country <\/em>(5 episodes); More Than Friends; All in the Family <\/em>(184 episodes); Archie Bunker’s Place<\/em> (2 episodes); Tall Tales & Legends; It’s Gary Shandling’s Show <\/em>(4 episodes); Morton & Hayes<\/em> (6 episodes); A Spinal Tap Reunion; The Larry Sanders Show; Frasier; Curb Your Enthusiasm; The Simpsons; Wizards of Waverly Place; 30 Rock; About a Boy; Happyish<\/em> (2 episodes); The Comedians; When We Rise; New Girl <\/em>(11 episodes); Hollywood<\/em> (3 episodes); The Good Fight <\/em>(2 episodes); Home Movie: The Princess Bride <\/em>(3 episodes); The Bear<\/em> (4 episodes) and Conan o’Brien Needs a Friend.<\/em><\/p>\n Some feature films that Rob Reiner acted in include: Enter Laughing; The Jerk; This is Spinal Tap; Throw Mama From the Train; Postcards from the Edge; Misery; Sleepless in Seattle; Bullets Over Broadway; The First Wives Club; Primary Colors; The Story of Us; The Wolf of Wall Street <\/em>and Spinal Tap II: The End Continues.<\/em><\/p>\n Some of the television projects that feature Rob Reiner directing include: Sonny Boy; I am Your Child<\/em> and 8<\/em>.<\/p>\n Some of the feature films that Rob Reiner directed include: This is Spinal Tap; The Sure Thing; Stand by Me; The Princess Bride; When Harry Met Sally; Misery; A Few Good Men; The American President; Ghosts of Mississippi; The Story of Us; The Bucket List; Flipped; The Magic of Belle Island; LBJ; Albert Brooks: Defending My Life;<\/em> and Spinal Tap II: The End Continues.<\/em><\/p>\n I probably first saw Rob Reiner acting in Batman<\/em>.\u00a0 I never missed that show when I was a kid.\u00a0 Of course, I’m sure I saw Mr. Reiner’s guest appearances on The Andy Griffith Show; That Girl; Gomer Pyle; The Beverly Hillbillies; The Partridge Family<\/em> and The Rockford Files<\/em> before I ever saw Rob Reiner in his breakout role on All in the Family<\/em>.\u00a0 He was so good as Archie Bunker’s foil.\u00a0 If the character of Mike Stivik was the only acting role Rob Reiner was known for, it would still make for a great career.<\/p>\n Who could have guessed what a talented director Rob Reiner would become.\u00a0 I would match his first first seven films (This is Spinal Tap; The Sure Thing; Stand by Me; The Princess Bride; When Harry Met Sally; Misery<\/em> and A Few Good Men<\/em>) against any other director’s first seven.<\/p>\n By all accounts Rob Reiner was a gentle, kind, humble man loved by anyone who knew him.\u00a0 We need more folks with those qualities.<\/p>\n Out thoughts and prayers go out to Rob Reiner’s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday Rob Reiner and his wife were found murdered in their Los Angeles home.\u00a0 They had been killed by an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,57,65,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-rip","category-trivia","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40763"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40768,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40763\/revisions\/40768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n