# Two people found dead at Rob Reiner's home. (Sadly confirmed it was Rob and his wife.) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [December 15, 2025, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704 "2025-12-15T02:44:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/101 "2025-12-15T22:14:54Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > It seems to me that knowing Reiner’s movies is different than knowing that he was the director. A lot of people have no idea who directed the film that they watched a few hours before. Reiner’s most famous films were from 1986 to 1996. _All in the Family_ ran from 1971 to 1978. The television series is in the past now, but so it the famous films. People sometimes watch those movies on television, streaming, or in a movie theater showing occasional old films. They also occasionally watch the television series on television. Or for some even younger, the first thing that they might think about is the South Park episode where he was satirized as an anti-smoking activist who had a problem with gluttony. That’s the first thing that popped into my head, and I’m 48. ---
**Author:** ![Zoobi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/13edae/32.png) [@Zoobi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoobi)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/102 "2025-12-15T22:19:18Z")
More lazy than too soon IMO. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/103 "2025-12-15T22:31:12Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > At least at sentencing Nick can plead for mercy since he’s an orphan. > > Too soon? You made two tasteless jokes today, the other one in the Bodi Beach massacre thread IIRC. I think you have have reached your quota. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/104 "2025-12-15T22:44:15Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > I think you have have reached your quota. (for the decade) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/105 "2025-12-15T23:15:26Z")
My one upthread here is certainly tasteless and unoriginal. No dispute there. I thought the other one (Bondi) wasn’t disrespectful and was at least a smidgen creative. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/106 "2025-12-15T23:30:48Z")
I’ve been so sad since last night. Reading people’s funny stories about him as a person, as an actor, as a filmmaker. It’s so awful and their poor daughters. Since we tend to be More Old here than other places, a lot of the young ‘uns know him best as Jess’s father on New Girl. My teen has seen so many of his movies, but if she saw him she’d call him Jess’s dad or the guy from The Bear ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/107 "2025-12-15T23:32:03Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > > > I’m thinking how awful the Holiday season will be for this whole family. Forever. > > True. It will take many years to begin to enjoy the Thanksgiving-Christmas season. > > I mean, Mom AND Dad. Wow. Christmas? Aren’t they Jewish? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/108 "2025-12-15T23:40:00Z")
ABC Nightly News reports the daughter found her parents. Would that be Tracy? She had an acting career. League of Their Own, When Harry Met Sally are two I remember. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/109 "2025-12-15T23:48:48Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Christmas? Aren’t they Jewish? According to [his Wikipedia article,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Reiner) Rob had identified as Athiest with Buddhist leanings in his later years. Also, Rob and Nick got into an argument at a Christmas party hosted by Conan O’Brien before the attack. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/110 "2025-12-15T23:50:00Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Christmas? Aren’t they Jewish? They were secular Jews (both Carl and Rob were atheists) and apparently were fine with doing the Christmas thing as a cultural holiday. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/111 "2025-12-16T00:13:14Z")
Rob is responsible for some of my all time favorite movies. We watched Princess Bride so many times. The whole family could quote almost the whole thing. It took me months to convince the guys to watch it because they didn’t want to watch a love story. They were delighted when they finally gave in. Stand by me was just magical. And A Few Good Men was wonderful cinema. The man was an artist through and through. In the short interview I watched of his son, it seemed obvious that Nick was off in some way. He came across as sort of awkward and angry or something. But of course I’m watching it knowing that he did a terrible thing. I wish this had not happened. He deserved better than this bad ending. May they rest in peace. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/112 "2025-12-16T00:15:34Z")
Just to ask, was Carl’s reaction notably progressive for the era? You hear so much about sexism in those days, it made me wonder if the average American dad then would have been as vehement. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/113 "2025-12-16T00:33:17Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Just to ask, was Carl’s reaction notably progressive for the era? I expect that if nothing else, a 12-year-old would have been disciplined for disrespecting an adult like that. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/114 "2025-12-16T00:50:43Z")
Point taken. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/115 "2025-12-16T01:18:49Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Rob and Nick got into an argument at a Christmas party hosted by Conan O’Brien before the attack. This whole case is so surreal. I wonder if Andy Richter is the State’s first witness at the murder trial (who _would_ be on that guest list??) > [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > Stand by me was just magical _Stand By Me_ is in my top 5 favorite movies. Magical is a great description. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/116 "2025-12-16T01:39:16Z")
I keep thinking about the shouting matches between Archie Bunker and Meathead. It’s so sad that Rob had to live with similar conflict in his own home. There was a security guard, but that was for intruders trying to get in. > **[Security guard remembers Michele Reiner's kindness | Fox News Video](https://www.foxnews.com/video/6386528273112)** > > A neighborhood security guard shared warm memories about the late photographer. Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were found dead in their home on Dec. 14. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/117 "2025-12-16T01:44:20Z")
> [@F.U.Shakespeare](#): > > She concluded, “And I guess that’s why I’ve never made a Rob Reiner film”. Another point of discord may have been that _All in the Family_ stood in the way of _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_ being CBS’s top program for half a decade. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/118 "2025-12-16T02:01:57Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > ABC Nightly News reports the daughter found her parents. > > Would that be Tracy? She had an acting career. League of Their Own, When Harry Met Sally are two I remember. Romy, the daughter of Rob and Michele, is the one who found them. She is 28. They also had another son, Jake. Nick is the middle one. Tracy is Penny Marshall’s daughter from a previous marriage. Rob adopted her while married to Penny. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/119 "2025-12-16T02:44:56Z")
Does this remind anyone of how Phil Hartman died - killed by a family member during an argument? Not a complete parallel but yet another family tragedy. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704/120 "2025-12-16T02:46:28Z")
Something I didn’t realize until just now was that Rob and Michele co-founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights, which fought for marriage equality in California. > **[Rob Reiner was a fierce advocate for marriage equality](https://19thnews.org/2025/12/rob-reiner-death-advocate-marriage-equality/)** > > The esteemed filmmaker — who was found dead along with his wife, Michele — cofounded the American Foundation for Equal Rights, which led the fight against California's Prop. 8. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-people-found-dead-at-rob-reiners-home-sadly-confirmed-it-was-rob-and-his-wife/1025704.md?page=7)