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The deaths of actor-director Rob Reiner and his wife, producer Michelle Reiner, have been confirmed by TMZ and People.
Rob Reiner was 78. Michelle Reiner's age has not yet been confirmed.
Rob Reiner, of course, was the iconic actor who appeared in such TV hits as All in the Family and directed such movie classics as When Harry Met Sally, This is Spinal Tap, The Princess Bride, Stand By Me, Misery and A Few Good Men.
Authorities arrived at Reiner's Brentwood, Calif., that belonged to the actor-filmmaker and his wife on Sunday afternoon, Variety reported on Sunday evening. The industry trade publication confirmed a Los Angeles Fire Department report that two deceased victims -- man age 78, and a woman, age 68 -- were found inside the residence.
Rob and Michelle Singer had been married since May 1989. Rob Reiner was previously married to actor-director Penny Marshall from 1971 to 1981.
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Rob Reiner was the son of entertainment legend Carl Reiner and his wife, Estelle Reiner. Rob Reiner was born to the couple on March 6, 1947, in the Bronx, New York, N.Y.
Rob Reiner's acting breakthrough came in the classic CBS sitcom All in the Family, in which he starred as Michael Stivic for nine seasons from 1971 to 1978. Michael, was the husband of Archie (Caroll O'Connor) and Edith Bunker's (Maureen Stapleton) daugher, Gloria (Sally Struthers). Archie famously referred to Michael as "Meathead."
Rob Reiner directed Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon and Kevin Pollak in the military courtroom drama A Few Good Men, which was released in 1992.
Rob Reiner was the director of the 1995 film The American President, starring Michael Douglas.
Rob Reiner was joined by The Princess Bride star Cary Elwes and legendary director-producer Mel Brooks for the launch party of Elwes' book, As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride, in 2014.
Reiner' most recent film was Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, a sequel to the classic 1984 mockumentary This is Spinal Tap, which was released in theaters in September. Reiner directed both films and also starred as documentarian Marti DiBergi, while Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer played languishing heavy metal stars Nigel Tufnel, David St. Hubbins and Derek Smalls.
In addition to the film, Reiner penned the companion book A Fine Line Between Stupid and Clever: The Story of Spinal Tap, which also included recollections from Guest, McKean and Shearer.
Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer and Christopher Guest appeared in character for some interviews to help promote the September release of Spinal Tap II.
Like This is Spinal Tap, the dialogue for Spinal Tap II was improvised, as was an oral history of the group told to Reiner's Marti DiBergi for the flip side of the A Fine Line Between Stupid and Clever book titled,Smell the Book.
In a Zoom conversation about the novel, Reiner said the transcript of the conversation appears verbatim in Smell the Book.
"It's exactly how we work all the time, as it's completely improvised," Reiner said. "We have our history, we know our history and can draw on it, but all the dialogue is improvised."