Actor Robert Carradine, of “Revenge of the Nerds” and “Lizzie McGuire”, dies at 71

Robert Carradine, the actor identified for the Revenge of the Nerds movies of the '80s and the Lizzie McGuire TV present and film, has died. He was 71.

"It’s with profound disappointment that we should share that our beloved father, grandfather, uncle, and brother Robert Carradine has handed away," his household saidin a press release supplied to Deadline. "In a world that may really feel so darkish, Bobby was at all times a beacon on gentle to everybody round him. We’re bereft on the lack of this lovely soul and wish to acknowledge Bobby’s valiant wrestle towards his practically two-decade battle with Bipolar Dysfunction. We hope his journey can shine a light-weight and encourage addressing the stigma that attaches to psychological sickness. Right now we ask for the privateness to grieve this unfathomable loss. With gratitude in your understanding and compassion."

The outlet famous that Carradine died by suicide and that his brother and fellow actor, Keith Carradine, needed folks to learn about Robert's psychological well being situation.

"There isn’t a disgrace in it," he mentioned. "It’s an sickness that acquired one of the best of him, and I wish to rejoice him for his wrestle with it, and rejoice his lovely soul. He was profoundly gifted, and we’ll miss him every single day. We’ll take solace in how humorous he might be, how sensible and completely accepting and tolerant he was. That's who my child brother was."

Robert, he defined to Deadline, was the bedrock of his household, which additionally included Disney Imagineer Christopher Carradine and their late brother, Kill Bill actor David Carradine, who died in 2009.

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Robert Carradine was born in 1954, who started his skilled appearing profession as an adolescent, with appearances on TV in sequence corresponding to The Cowboys (1974) and the TV film The Hatfields and the McCoys (1975). He was in films together with Coming Residence, Imply Streets, and The Lengthy Riders, which turned a household affair as a result of it additionally featured his brothers Keith and David.

He starred within the 1984 film Revenge of the Nerds, which was such successful that it spawned a number of sequels. Carradine portrayed Lewis Skolnick once more all through the '90s.

In 2001, he started two seasons as the daddy of Hilary Duff's beloved Lizzie McGuire character on the favored Disney present of the identical identify. He additionally performed the function on the large display when Duff and co. made a film in 2003, and he labored on the TV revival in 2020.

If you happen to or somebody you realize is contemplating suicide, name the Nationwide Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (8255) or textual content Disaster Textual content Line at 741741.

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