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Robert "Rob" Reiner (born on March 6 1947) is an American actor, director, producer, writer and political activist. As an actor, Reiner first came to national prominence as Edith and Archie Bunker's (played by Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton) son, Michael "Meathead" Stivic, all in the family. That role earned him two Emmy Awards during the years 1970. As a director, Reiner has been approved by the Directors Guild of America (DGA) with nominations for stand-by Me, When Harry Met Sally ..., and A Few Good Men. He was trained at the UCLA Film School.

Rob Reiner was born in The Bronx, New York, the son of Estella (no Lebost), an actress, and Carl Reiner, a comedian, actor, writer, producer and director. As a child, Reiner lived in New Rochelle, New York, where his family lived at 48 Bonnie Meadow Road. This compares with 148 Bonnie Meadow Road, the fictional address of the Petries on The Dick Van Dyke Show, the years 1960 CBS Sitcom made by his father.

At the age of 13 years Rob Reiner moved with his family moved to Los Angeles, where he attended Beverly Hills High School with Richard Dreyfuss and Albert Brooks. He went on to enroll at the University of California, Los Angeles. He also has a sister, Sylvia Anne (Annie) Reiner (b. 1947), who is a poet, playwright and author, and a brother, Lucas Reiner (b. 1960), painter, actor and director.

Rob Reiner became famous playing Michael "Meathead" Stivic, Archie Bunker's liberal son, Norman Lear the years 1970 Sitcom All in the Family, which was the most watched television program for five years in the United States (1971-1978). The term "Meathead" Reiner referring to the character Mike Stivic in All in the Family, was a pop culture reference. Indeed, Reiner has stated that "I could win the Nobel Prize and they write 'Meathead wins the Nobel Prize." "In a 2004 interview in A & E Biography, Rob Reiner said that he often enjoyed working with O'Connor on the screen, as well as to the best friends and for the fact that half father, off-screen too. Rob Reiner be continued loyal to him until his death on June 21, 2001, when he, along with Sally Struthers and Danielle Brisebois O'Connor attended the funeral.

In the years 1980 and 1990, Rob Reiner is best known as director of successful Hollywood movies. Some of these films, like The Princess Bride, Stand By Me and this is Spinal Tap-cult status. Rob Reiner has stated that the film will go down as his masterpiece is Stand by Me. The film is also his favorite movie of his own work. In 1994 (after a period of three years development period), Rob Reiner is slated for the big-screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's in the woods, with Robin Williams as the baker, Goldie Hawn as The Baker's Wife, Cher, The Witch, and Roseanne Barr as Jack's mother. For unspecified reasons (though it is speculated due to the decline in popularity of the musical movies) by means of this production decreased and the film was never started.

Rob Reiner went on to direct other critically and commercially successful films with his own company, Castle Rock, as Misery, A Few Good Men, and his most commercially successful work - When Harry Met Sally ..., which has become a classic romantic comedy.

But his career has seen less commercial success in recent years, starting with North, which has been critically panned (notorious by Roger Ebert: "I hated this movie. Gehate hated hated hated hated this movie .." His subsequent films by Alex and Emma and Rumor has it have been unsuccessful both critically and commercially. His next feature, The Bucket List, is in december 2007, and starred Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman as two terminally ill men who escape from a division of cancer and Head off on a road trip with a wish list of tasks to be carried out before they die.

Rob Reiner has guest-starred in several films, usually in small roles including Throw Momma From The Train, Sleepless in Seattle, Bullets Over Broadway, The First Wives Club, and primary colors.

Rob Reiner is Jewish. Rob Reiner was married to actress-director Penny Marshall from 1971 to 1981. Marshall's daughter from a previous marriage, actress Tracy Reiner, co-star in the Marshall A League of their own country. Reiner and Marshall divorced in 1981.

Rob Reiner married photographer Michele Singer in 1989. In 1997, Reiner and wife Michele founder of the "I am your child Foundation", now "Parents' Action for Children", a non-profit organization, promoting early childhood development through the production and dissemination of educational videos hosted celebrities for parents.

Rob Reiner was the subject of a parody in the South Park episode "Butt Out." The episode portrays his anti-smoking activism as hypocritical, he painted him as using the same unethical tactics he accuses the tobacco industry. It also suggests that his weight problem is just as dangerous, if not more, than smoking. In accordance with the showing of the liberal themes, the character Kyle Broflovski and Stan Marsh even labels him a fascist, claiming that he actively coercing people into smoking not only because he hates it. At the end, he is murdered by Eric Cartman, who pokes his belly with a fork, spurting of large quantities of goo him.

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