Rob Reiner's son Nick taken into custody after suspected homicide of Hollywood director, wife

Hollywood director Rob Reiner's son, Nick Reiner, was taken into custody after Rob and his wife Michele were found dead of an apparent homicide in their Los Angeles home on Sunday.

Nick is being held on a $4 million bond, according to jail records.

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Police said they found two bodies at the Reiners' home at 3.40 pm Pacific Time in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles on Sunday, whom they did not identify. Other officials confirmed the victims were Reiner, 78, and his wife Michele, 68.

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Jail records show their son was arrested on Sunday and later booked into the Los Angeles County jail. The records showed he was being held on a felony, but did not contain any specific information about the charges.

Tributes poured in for Reiner, who was also active in politics, supporting liberal causes.

"This is a devastating loss for our city and our country. Rob Reiner's contributions reverberate throughout American culture and society, and he has improved countless lives through his creative work and advocacy fighting for social and economic justice," Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said in a statement.

Michele Reiner was at one time a photographer who captured the image of US President Donald Trump that appears on the cover of his book "Trump: The Art of the Deal." Trump commented on their death, with a note on social media which British broadcaster Piers Morgan called "dreadful".

Read his full statement, here:

"A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS.

He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before. May Rob and Michele rest in peace!"

From 'meathead' to 'spinal tap'

As an actor, Reiner was best remembered for his role on the 1970s television comedy hit "All in the Family" as Mike "Meathead" Stivic, the son-in-law and liberal foil of the lead character.

The role garnered Reiner two Emmy awards for outstanding supporting actor.

Reiner went on to have a prolific Hollywood career as a director, starting with "This is Spinal Tap," a 1984 mockumentary about a fictional hard rock band. The film became a cult classic, known for its mostly improvised script, with Reiner playing the faux documentary filmmaker Marty DiBergi.

"That was the trick - to make fun of it and at the same time, honor it," Reiner told CBS' "60 Minutes" this year as he promoted a sequel, "Spinal Tap II: The End Continues."

Reiner directed nearly two dozen films in all, including classics such as "Stand by Me," a 1986 coming-of-age drama about four boys who set out to find the body of a missing youth, and 1989's "When Harry Met Sally ..." often cited as one of the greatest romantic comedies of all time.

That movie featured the famed line, "I'll have what she's having," delivered by the director's real-life mother, Estelle Reiner, reacting to a faked orgasm in a restaurant.

Reiner also directed the 1987 fairy-tale adventure "The Princess Bride," the 1990 psychological thriller "Misery," and the 1992 military courtroom drama "A Few Good Men."