Rob Reiner died tragically on Dec. 14, 2025, at age 78. Three months before his death, he reflected on growing up in the shadow of a Hollywood legend.
“My folks told me this story. I don't remember doing it, but they said that one day I came to them, I was eight years old at the time, and I said to them, 'I want to change my name,' " Reiner told Danson. “And they thought, 'Oh, this poor kid. He's worried about being in the shadow and having to live up to his father and all this.' So they asked me, they said, 'Well, what do you want to change your name to?' And I said, 'Carl.’”
Carl Reiner once shared the story in an interview posted by the Television Academy Foundation. The Dick Van Dyke Show creator recalled that Rob told his mom, Estelle, that he wanted to change his name. “He was about five or six years old, and he had just taken a bath, and my wife was combing his hair, and he was looking in the mirror and he thought he looked pretty handsome. And he said, ‘I want to be an actor, I want to change my name.’ And my wife said, ‘Gee that's so sophisticated…what do you want to change it to?’ He said ‘Carl.’”
Rob Reiner would go on to follow in his father’s footsteps as a highly successful actor, screenwriter, and director behind films such as The Princess Bride, Stand By Me, and This is Spinal Tap.
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