Adam Rich, the child actor with a pageboy mop-top who charmed TV audiences in the late 1970s as 'America's little brother' on 'Eight is Enough,' has died. He was 54.
LOS ANGELES — Adam Rich, the child actor with a pageboy mop-top who charmed TV audiences in the late 1970s as"America's little brother" on"Eight is Enough," has died. He was 54.
Rich had a limited acting career after playing Nicholas Bradford, the youngest of eight children, on the ABC hit dramedy that ran from from 1977 to 1981. Rich suffered from a type of depression that defied treatment and he had tried to erase the stigma of talking about mental illness, said publicist Danny Deraney. He unsuccessfully tried experimental cures over the years and had remained sober."He was just a very kind, generous, loving soul," Deraney told The Associated Press."Being a famous actor is not necessarily what he wanted to be ... He had no ego, not an ounce of it.
"Human beings weren't built to endure mental illness," Rich had tweeted in September."The mere fact that some people consider those to be weak, or have a lack of will is totally laughable … because it's the total opposite! It's takes a very, very strong person … a warrior if you will … to battle such illnesses.""Everyone used to say to me, 'You are the modern day Mickey Rooney,'" he tweeted.
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