{"id":537405,"date":"2023-01-08T21:06:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T18:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/adam-rich-eight-is-enough-actor-dies-at-54\/"},"modified":"2023-01-08T21:06:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T18:06:01","slug":"adam-rich-eight-is-enough-actor-dies-at-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/adam-rich-eight-is-enough-actor-dies-at-54\/","title":{"rendered":"#Adam Rich, \u2018Eight Is Enough\u2019 Actor, Dies at 54"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a25b57c712ce\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a25b57c712ce\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/adam-rich-eight-is-enough-actor-dies-at-54\/#Adam_Rich_%E2%80%98Eight_Is_Enough_Actor_Dies_at_54\" >Adam Rich, \u2018Eight Is Enough\u2019 Actor, Dies at 54<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Adam_Rich_%E2%80%98Eight_Is_Enough_Actor_Dies_at_54\"><\/span>Adam Rich, \u2018Eight Is Enough\u2019 Actor, Dies at 54<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Adam Rich, the former \u201970s and \u201980s child star best known for his page-boy haircut and role on the ABC dramedy <em>Eight Is Enough<\/em>, has died. He was 54. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2023\/01\/08\/adam-rich-dead-dies-eight-is-enough\/\">TMZ<\/a> reported he died Saturday in his Los Angeles home, and Danny Deraney, a rep for Rich, confirmed the death, without citing a cause, in a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DannyDeraney\/status\/1612137183615541249\">social media statement<\/a> posted Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cAdam was simply a wonderful guy,\u201d he wrote. \u201cHe was kind, generous and a warrior in the fight against mental illness. Adam did not have an ounce of ego. He was unselfish and always looked out for those he cared about, which is why many people who grew up with him feel like part of their childhood gone, and sad today. He really was America\u2019s little brother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Rich was known for his numerous roles throughout the \u201980s on sitcoms and dramas, including five seasons of ABC\u2019s dramedy <em>Eight Is Enough<\/em>, which was based on real-life syndicated <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>paper columnist Tom Braden\u2019s experiences as a father of eight children. The actor won the role of Nicholas Bradford at 8, kicking off a nearly three-decade screen career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    For more than 100 episodes, Rich portrayed the youngest child of the Sacramento family headed up by Bradford, who was played by\u00a0Dick Van Patten, a widower in the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> following the death of star Diana Hyland, who portrayed his wife, Joan. The actress, who was diagnosed with breast cancer, passed during filming of the first season. Rich would originate his role alongside pilot co-star Mark Hamill, who ultimately left the series to play Luke Skywalker in <em>Star Wars<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Born in Brooklyn on Oct. 12, 1968, Rich would get his first screen role on the fourth season of ABC\u2019s \u201970s action series <em>The Six Million Dollar Man<\/em> in a season-four episode that saw him playing Bob, the son of a man with a Scrooge-like uncle who is assisted by Lee Majors\u2019 Col. Steve Austin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    He would soon get cast in the pilot of <em>Eight Is Enough<\/em>, and while on the show, would go on to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ear in one-off episodes of <em>The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, The City<\/em> and <em>3-2-1<\/em>, along with the role of Toby Hart in the 1980 film <em>The Devil and Max Devlin<\/em>, starring Elliott Gould and Bill Cosby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    After the conclusion of the ABC series, he continued his small-screen career, most notably voicing Presto the Magician in the 1983 animated adaptation of <em>Dungeons &amp; Dragons<\/em> and recurring as Danny Blake in the single-season family firefighter drama <em>Code Red<\/em> in 1981. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Throughout the late \u201970s and \u201980s, he would appear on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s shows, including Hollywood Squares and star on episodes of <em>Gun Shy<\/em>, <em>St. Elsewhere<\/em> and <em>Silver Spoons<\/em>, alongside two <em>Eight Is Enough<\/em> reunions. Shortly after work on the second special, in 1989, he was comatose for more than a month after the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/os-xpm-1989-11-05-8911053599-story.html\">flu virus settled in his brain<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    In the early \u201990s, Rich was arrested on suspicion of burglarizing a West Hills pharmacy and earlier received five years probation after pleading guilty to drunk driving. He entered a rehabilitation program in 1992 before having another substance-related run-in with police during the early 2000s, and he spent his remaining adult life in recovery. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Rich, who participated in his own death hoax <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/story\/7572\/\">published by <em>Might <\/em>magazine<\/a> in 1996, would have only one notable role in the \u201990s, on <em>Baywatch<\/em>, in addition to voice work for a <em>Goosebumps<\/em> audiobook, before he would count a 2003 cameo as himself in the David Spade-led <em>Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star<\/em> as among his final two roles. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n!function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\nif (f.fbq) return;\nn = f.fbq = function() {n.callMethod ? n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);};\nif (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\nn.push = n;\nn.loaded = !0;\nn.version = '2.0';\nn.queue = [];\nt = b.createElement(e);\nt.async = !0;\nt.src = v;\ns = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n}(window, document, 'script', 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '352999048212581');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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