OT: Godspeed Adam Rich

[Ronnie_B]

Found dead yesterday, he was 54. I grew up watching "Eight Is Enough" and Adam Rich was probably the show's biggest star, and also another child casualty of Hollywood. Sad

 

[Joey Bacala]

OK I'm in that age group too and that is a shame about Adam Rich. But if you think that he was that show's biggest star, you're not even close. Willie Aames was on the cover of every magazine and a much bigger draw than Adam Rich.

 

[Ronnie_B]

OK I'm in that age group too and that is a shame about Adam Rich. But if you think that he was that show's biggest star, you're not even close. Willie Aames was on the cover of every magazine and a much bigger draw than Adam Rich.

“I think he’s why the show was a big success,” Van Patten, who died in 2015, said of his former co-star in a 2011 interview with Stephen J. Abramson for the Television Academy Foundation.

“People loved him! [Fans] named a child Nicholas and everything because of him,” he added. “He was cute, and he was a good actor. He was very natural.”

 

[ashokan]

"The show was modeled on the life of syndicated newspaper columnist Tom Braden, a real-life parent with eight children, who wrote a book by the same title." (wiki)

I didn't watch the show but recall a lot of big families locally in that era (especially Irish -- like Kennedy fam)

 

[Knight Shift]

“I think he’s why the show was a big success,” Van Patten, who died in 2015, said of his former co-star in a 2011 interview with Stephen J. Abramson for the Television Academy Foundation.

“People loved him! [Fans] named a child Nicholas and everything because of him,” he added. “He was cute, and he was a good actor. He was very natural.”

Cause of death not given, but the poor man battled drug problems most of his life. One of the sisters on the show suffered from agoraphobia and OD'd on a mix of painkillers and another drug.

 

[Ronnie_B]

Cause of death not given, but the poor man battled drug problems most of his life. One of the sisters on the show suffered from agoraphobia and OD'd on a mix of painkillers and another drug.

The history of child actors in Hollywood is disturbing.

 

[Knight Shift]

The history of child actors in Hollywood is disturbing.

Diff'rent Strokes, Eight is Enough, Leif Garrett, Drew Barrymore, and many more.

 

[CollegeSenior]

Cause of death not given, but the poor man battled drug problems most of his life. One of the sisters on the show suffered from agoraphobia and OD'd on a mix of painkillers and another drug.

And one of the other sisters developed a bad drug problem, too.

 

[newell138]

The history of child actors in Hollywood is disturbing.

You’d be messed up too if you were being molested by your bosses