A Few Good Men, This Is Spinal Tap, and The Princess Bride director Rob Reiner has been found dead in his Brentwood, Los Angeles home, alongside his wife, Michele. Reiner was 78. CNN has reported that the LAPD has explained it’s investigating an apparent homicide.
A spokesperson for the Reiner family has confirmed the deaths and has asked for privacy on behalf of the family within the wake of the tragedy.
Rob Reiner’s long profession in entertainment began gaining steam when he was solid as Michael Stivic on the Nineteen Seventies US sitcom All within the Family, the son-in-law of lead character Archie Bunker. Nonetheless, while Reiner won two Emmy Awards for his work on the show and would proceed to seek out himself in front of the camera in various roles over time, it was behind the camera that he established his fame as an especially versatile and capable director.
Reiner’s directorial debut was the music mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap in 1984. Reiner followed this much-loved cult comedy with the 1986 coming-of-age drama Stand By Me, the 1987 fantasy adventure The Princess Bride, the seminal romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally… in 1989, an adaptation of the Stephen King thriller Misery in 1990, and the Academy Award-nominated military courtroom drama A Few Good Men in 1992. Reiner’s most up-to-date film was this yr’s Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, making his final film the long-awaited sequel to his first.
Born in The Bronx, Latest York in 1947, Reiner was the son of legendary actor, comedian, director, and author Carl Reiner (whose own seven-decade profession began back throughout the golden age of television alongside fellow comedy icon Mel Brooks).
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