Rob Reiner was found dead Sunday afternoon in his Brentwood home alongside his wife Michele Singer.
He was famed for starring in All in the Family and directing movies including This Is Spinal Tap, A Few Good Men and When Harry Met Sally…
As per TMZ, their deaths are being investigated as a homicide as the couple has been reported to have been stabbed to death.
Reiner’s most recent film was Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, the sequel to the 1984 classic This Is Spinal Tap.
The son of the noted writer, director and comedian Carl Reiner, he first attracted attention as Michael “Meathead” Stivic, hippie son-in-law of Carroll O’Connor’s bigoted, blustering blue-collar worker Archie Bunker, during nine seasons of CBS’s topical sitcom.
He collected Emmys as best supporting actor in a comedy in 1974 and 1978.
He has writing credits in The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Happy Days and All in the Family and a pair of TV movies under his belt.
Reiner moved into big screen work as a director, writer and co-star in 1984’s This is Spinal Tap, the cherished mockumentary about a thick-headed heavy metal band.
That project was succeeded during the next decade by a run of box office hits and popular favorites, including Stand By Me (1986), a coming-of-age drama adapted from a Stephen King short story; the fantasy The Princess Bride (1987); the new-look romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally…(1989); another King adaptation, the thriller Misery (1990); and the Tom Cruise-Jack Nicholson court martial drama A Few Good Men (1992).
Rob Reiner and his wife are survived by children, Jake, Nick and Romy.
