Adam Rich, who performed Nicholas Bradford, the youngest son on the Nineteen Seventies-era ABC sitcom Eight Is Enough, has died. The actor was 54 years outdated.
A member of the family advised TMZ that Rich died at residence within the Los Angeles space, with a legislation enforcement supply including that the dying was not a results of foul play. No explanation for dying has been introduced.
Rich starred on Eight Is Enough for its complete five-season run between 1977 and 1981, sharing the display with Dick Van Patten and Betty Buckley.
“I think [Rich is] why the show was a big success,” Van Patten mentioned in a 2011 interview with the Television Academy Foundation. “People loved him! [Fans] named a child Nicholas and everything because of him. .. He was cute, and he was a good actor. He seemed very natural.”
During the Eighties, Rich performed Danny Blake within the ABC motion drama Code Red and voiced a personality within the CBS animated sequence Dungeons & Dragons. He later guest-starred in St. Elsewhere, Silver Spoons, Small Wonder, and Baywatch.
Rich sought remedy on the Betty Ford Clinic for cocaine habit in 1988, and he entered rehab in 1992 after pleading no contest to felony housebreaking and drug expenses following allegations that he stole a syringe from a hospital and broke right into a pharmacy, per CBS News. And in 2002, Rich was arrested after driving onto a closed freeway lane and booked on suspicion of DUI, however he advised reporters that he’d been sober for 10 years.
According to TMZ, Rich’s mantra was, “Life is for living, and I live my life to the fullest every day.”