NEW YORK — Filmmaker Ron Reiner was remembered fondly by his peers at Monday’s 78th Emmy Award ceremony in Los Angeles.

“He was generous and kind and funny as hell, and a friend to all,” Jamie Lee Curtis tearfully said at the end of the show’s in memoriam tribute.

The Television Academy at last week’s Creative Arts Emmys ceremony announced that the 78-year-old actor and director posthumously won a Guest Actor in a Comedy Series award for his work on the FX series “The Bear.”

Also nominated in that category were Michael J. Fox and Brett Goldstein on “Shrinking,” Hamish Linklater on “Widow’s Bay” Christopher McDonald from “Hacks” and Connor Storrie for his guest host appearance on “Saturday Night Live.”

Reiner previously won Primetime Emmy Awards in 1974 and 1978 for playing Michael “Meathead” Stivic on the sitcom “All in the Family.”

The 48 year between his Emmy wins tops the record previously held by his dad, Carl Reiner.

Television audiences were treated to one final appearance by the beloved actor in a pretaped July episode of Larry David’s “Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness” on HBO. He played President George Washington.

Reiner, who directed successful films including “When Harry Met Sally” and “This is Spinal Tap,” was honored for his work on the big screen at the 98th Academy Awards in March. Friends and colleagues including funnyman Billy Crystal took the stage in Los Angeles to celebrate his life and work at that awards celebration.

The Bronx native and his wife Michele Singer Ryan were killed in their Los Angeles home on Dec. 14. Their son Nick Reiner, 32, pleaded not guilty to killing his parents with “special circumstance.” Nick turned 33 years old on Monday and is awaiting trial.

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