Rob Reiner, David Hoffman, Dick Russell author biography, plus links to books by Rob Reiner, David Hoffman, Dick Russell.

Rob Reiner, David Hoffman, Dick Russell

Rob Reiner, a two-time Emmy-winning actor for his role in the landmark television series, All in the Family, was also the acclaimed director of This Is Spinal Tap, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Misery, A Few Good Men, The American President, Ghosts of Mississippi, and The Bucket List. He most recently directed the Emmy-nominated documentary Albert Brooks: Defending My Life, and the sequel to This Is Spinal Tap. As a dedicated political activist, he spearheaded a tobacco tax initiative in California to fund early childhood development and chaired the state commission to oversee its implementation. In 2008, he cofounded The American Foundation For Equal Rights, which paved the way for marriage equality nationwide. He was also the coauthor of A Fine Line Between Stupid and Clever, the behind-the-scenes story of the making of This Is Spinal Tap.

David Hoffman is a writer, historian, and screenwriter whose work unites scholarly rigor with cinematic storytelling. He earned a BA in history from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Columbia Business School. With fifteen years of experience on Wall Street and an early career as a child actor, Hoffman brings both rigorous analysis and dramatic sensibility to his work. He developed, executive-produced, and wrote the #1-ranked, award-winning podcast Who Killed JFK?, acclaimed for its depth of research, intellectual clarity, and driving narrative force. Hoffman lives in the Pacific Palisades with his wife and their three children.

Dick Russell has published sixteen books, among them three New York Times bestsellers coauthored with former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura. He is the author of two groundbreaking books on the Kennedy assassination, including The Man Who Knew Too Much, hailed by Publishers Weekly as "a masterpiece of historical reconstruction." Russell's natural history saga Eye of the Whale was named one of the best books of the year by three major newspapers. His latest is The Real RFK Jr: Trials of a Truth Warrior, an intimate biography of the son of Robert Kennedy. The second and third volumes of Russell's monumental biography of the pioneering founder of archetypal psychology, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, were published in 2023. Russell served as a researcher and commentator for Who Killed JFK?, the ten-part podcast series about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, hosted by Rob Reiner and Soledad O'Brien.

This biography was last updated on 11/17/2026.

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