"Dick Van Dyke Show" director John Rich is dead

LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) Television director John Rich, who won an Emmy Award for "The Dick Van Dyke Show," has died in Los Angeles at 86.

Rich died Sunday morning, just hours before "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and its star, Mary Tyler Moore, were honored at the Screen Actors Guild's gala awards dinner.

Directors Guild of America spokeswoman Sahar Moridani tells the Los Angeles Times that Rich died Sunday morning at his Los Angeles home after a brief illness. There are no other details.

Rich also is known for the memorable "All in the Family'' scene showing Sammy Davis Jr. planting a kiss on Archie Bunker.

His 50-year Hollywood career included work on "I Married Joan," "Our Miss Brooks," "Gunsmoke" and "Bonanza." He also directed episodes or pilots of "The Twilight Zone," "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.," "Gilligan's Island," "The Brady Bunch," "Maude," "Good Times," "The Jeffersons," and "Barney Miller."