Hollywood director-actor Rob Reiner and wife found dead at LA home

Los Angeles politician pays tribute to Reiner’s ‘creative enactment and advocacy warring for societal and economical justice’.

Director-actor Rob Reiner and his woman person been recovered dormant astatine their location successful Los Angeles, according to United States media reports.

The LA Police Department said successful a connection connected Sunday that they were investigating the deaths of 2 radical successful an evident homicide.

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The LA Fire Department said it had responded to a aesculapian assistance petition soon aft 3.30pm (23:30 GMT) and recovered a 78-year-old antheral and a 68-year-old pistillate dormant inside. Reiner turned 78 successful March.

Media reports aboriginal identified the deceased arsenic Reiner, the manager of Hollywood hits including When Harry Met Sally and This Is Spinal Tap, and his wife.

A instrumentality enforcement authoritative cited by The Associated Press quality bureau said connected information of anonymity that investigators believed the brace had suffered stab wounds and that a household subordinate was being questioned successful narration to the incident.

Media radical stitchery adjacent Rob Reiner’s residence, December 14, 2025, successful the Brentwood conception of Los Angeles, US [Ethan Swope/AP Photo]

Reiner, who co-starred successful the 1970s deed CBS tv drama All successful the Family, directed respective well-known movies, his filmography besides including The Princess Bride and Stand by Me.

Aside from his Hollywood career, the New York native, lad of the precocious drama writer and histrion Carl Reiner, was good known for his governmental activism.

He featured successful advertisements taking purpose astatine George W Bush successful the 2004 statesmanlike predetermination and supported then-Democratic campaigner John Kerry. He besides showed enactment for Democratic statesmanlike hopefuls Al Gore and Hillary Clinton.

“Rob Reiner’s contributions reverberate passim American civilization and society, and helium has improved countless lives done his originative enactment and advocacy warring for societal and economical justice,” said LA Mayor Karen Bass.

Reiner and lensman Michele joined successful 1989 and person 3 children together.

Reiner was antecedently joined to the precocious actor-director Penny Marshall from 1971 to 1981. He adopted her daughter, Tracy Reiner.

Reiner’s representatives person not yet commented connected the deaths.