LOS ANGELES, Dec 15 — Actor-director and political activist Rob Reiner and his wife were found dead in their Los Angeles home yesterday, and police detectives are investigating the circumstances as an apparent homicide, city officials said.

While police declined to publicly identify the two people found deceased, Mayor Karen Bass and California Governor Gavin Newsom each released statements confirming that Reiner, 78, and his wife, Michele, 68, had died.