Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer were found dead in their Brentwood home on Sunday afternoon, with authorities investigating the deaths as a homicide.
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) responded to the property after reports of two deceased individuals.
The couple was reported to have been stabbed to death, according to sources familiar with the investigation. Reiner was 78. His wife was 68.
‘When Harry met Sally’ director Rob Reiner and wife Michele found dead in Brentwood home
โIt is with profound sorrow that we announce the tragic passing of Michele and Rob Reiner. We are heartbroken by this sudden loss, and we ask for privacy during this unbelievably difficult time,โ a spokesperson said in a family statement.
Reiner began his career as a writer on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour before achieving fame as Michael ‘Meathead’ Stivic in CBS sitcom All in the Family from 1971 to 1978.
He won Emmy awards as best supporting actor in a comedy in 1974 and 1978.
In 1971, Reiner was chosen over actors including Richard Dreyfuss and Harrison Ford to play Archie Bunker’s son-in-law opposite Sally Struthers as his wife Gloria in All in the Family, creator Norman Lear’s version of the British sitcom Til Death Do Us Part.
Reiner moved into directing with 1984’s This is Spinal Tap, an improvisational mockumentary about a heavy metal band featuring Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer.
Reiner was born on March 6, 1947 in the Bronx, New York. His father Carl Reiner was a writer and comedian who became one of the figures of the so-called Golden Age of Television, acting and writing on Sid Caesar’s Your Show of Shows before creating The Dick Van Dyke Show and directing comedy features.
Raised in Hollywood, Reiner attended UCLA Film School and took roles in television shows including Batman, That Girl, The Beverly Hillbillies and The Partridge Family. He appeared in his father’s film Enter Laughing (1967).
Carl Reiner died in 2020.
Reiner and his wife are survived by children Jake, Nick and Romy. He was the father of actress Tracy Reiner, the daughter of his first wife, actress and director Penny Marshall.
