Rob Reiner

The most important thing is that you be a good person and you live by the golden rule of do unto others.

If you live by that, that's all I care about.

-Rob Reiner

Robert Reiner

March 6, 1947 – December 14, 2025

On December 14, 2025, the Los Angeles Fire Department reported finding two deceased persons—a 78-year-old male and a 68-year-old female—inside Reiner and Singer's home in Brentwood, Los Angeles around 3:30 p.m. The identities of the bodies were not immediately reported. At the time I am writing this there are conflicting reports. 

One of the most memorable days working as a VIP tour guide at Universal Studios was the day that I got to take around Rob Reiner, his wife, his kids and some of their close friends. Imagine everywhere we went somebody would shout, “Have fun storming the castle” or somebody would get close to me and ask very softly, “Is that meathead?” He was cool with that.

There were two highlights of the day.

The first one was when I pointed out the house from the movie The thrill of it all he asked the driver of our trolley to stop. He points at the house and he says to his kids my dad… Grandpa directed a movie that was set in that house. Then he looked at me and asked do I know about that movie and I said, “Yeah your dad directed it when he was on hiatus from The Dick Van Dyke Show and he looked at me and went “No…  wait yes, you're right he was on hiatus from The Dick Van Dyke Show. He was just so proud and so thrilled to share that moment with his kids.

The other highlight was in the Back to the Future gift shop, and this gift shop happened to be selling lava lamps. While we were chatting I mentioned that I share a birthday with the lava lamp and he was fascinated by that. He wanted to know how'd you come to find out that I share a birthday with the lava lamp. I said that one morning I was listening to the radio and the DJ's said if you were born on this day, you share a birthday with Ronald Reagan, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Mike Farrell and if you were born on this day in 1965 you share a birthday with the lava lamp. Rob started reminiscing about the 60s. I asked if that was when he was working with The Smothers Brothers. He told me that came a little later but one of the adults in his group asked, “You worked with the The Smothers Brothers and in the middle of this gift shop he started reenacting sketches he wrote, singing songs that were written for the brothers. He talked about how back in those days they were smoking a lot of pot, dropped a lot of acid and fought with the suits. It was just amazing to hear these stories first hand. Coincidentally today someone asked me of all the famous people I've taken around who was the nicest and I'm still having trouble picking just one person but I can say Rob Reiner was the most entertaining.

Good Night Meathead. "Have fun storming the castle"

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Tony Figueroa