He became famed swimming Michael Stivic (aka Meathead), Archie Bunker's liberal son-within-law, on the 1970s sitcom All in the Family, which was the virtually all-watched television program for five years in the United States (1971–1976). In the 1980s and 1990s, Reiner was best known as a director of successful Hollywood films. A few one films — like The Princess Bride and This is Spinal Tap — have achieved cult status. A latter film, meant as a parody of rock documentary film, was and so successful inside imitating a style of rock films that several viewers were inadvertantly fooled into thinking that a subject of a film, the fictitious heavily metal class action "Spinal Tap," really existed.

Additionally to his originative function sustaining cinemthe, Reiner likewise experienced a important administrative role, when founder & long-period co-creator of Castle Rock Entertainment. He known as a production company fallowing a fictitious town featured inside numerous stories by Reiner's frequent collaborator, Stephen King.

In a late 1990s & continuing into the 2000s, Reiner has taken a vocal role supporting certainside education-related proposals in California, including serving as a primary spokesman for the successful 1998 cigarette-tax initiative that has raised $700 million for early-childhood educational software. He too campaigned around Iowa for Democratic Presidential candidate Howard Dean just before a 2004 Iowa caucus. In December 14, 2004, the popular weblog Daily Kos reported that Reiner has decided not to challenge Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 2006 race for Governor of California, but that he plans to rerun within 2010 [http://dailykos.com/story/2004/12/14/164825/71].

Reiner was married to actress-director Penny Marshall from 1971 to 1979. He so married Michele Singer Reiner in 1989. Reiner was innate in The Bronx, New York, and grew higher around Future Rochelle, Future York, in which his personal lived in Bonnie Meadow Road, a equivalent location when a Petries on "The Dick Van Dyke Show." When Rob was astir Xiii a personal moved to the Los Angeles area, where he attended Beverly Hills High School and the University of California, Los Angeles.

He has been the tributary blogger at The Huffington Post since May 2005.

Television
All in the Family - Michael Stivic (1971-1978) Happy Days - Cowrote the 1st episode (1974) Likely Stories, Vol. 1 - Director (1981)

Film
The Jerk - Truck Driver (uncredited) (1979) This Is Spinal Tap - Director, costar (1984) The Sure Thing - Director (1985) Stand By Me - Director (1986) The Princess Bride - Director (1987) When Harry Met Sally - Director (1989) Misery - Director (1990) A Few Good Men - Director (1992) Sleepless in Seattle - Jay (1993) The American President - Director (1995) Ghosts of Mississippi - Director (1996) The Story of Us - Director (1999) Alex & Emma - Director (2003) Rumor Has It - Director (2005)