Adam Rich, previous 'Eight Is Enough' kid star, kicks the bucket at 54

 Adam Rich, previous 'Eight Is Enough' kid star, kicks the bucket at 54

LOS ANGELES — Adam Rich, the kid entertainer with a pageboy mop-top who enchanted television crowds as "America's younger sibling" on Eight Is Sufficient, has kicked the bucket. He was 54.

Rich passed on Saturday at his home in the Brentwood part of Los Angeles, said Lt. Aimee Baron of the Los Angeles Area Clinical Inspector Coroner's office. The reason for death was being scrutinized yet was not viewed as dubious.

Rich had a restricted acting vocation subsequent to featuring at age 8 as Nicholas Bradford, the most youthful of eight kids, on the ABC hit dramedy that ran from 1977 to 1981.

He had a few spats with police connected with medications and liquor — and looked for treatment at the Betty Passage Center in Rancho Illusion.

Rich experienced a sort of melancholy that opposed treatment and he had attempted to delete the disgrace of discussing psychological instability, said marketing specialist Danny Deraney. He fruitlessly attempted exploratory fixes throughout the long term.

Deraney said he and others near Rich were concerned lately when they couldn't contact him.

"He was only an extremely kind, liberal, cherishing soul," Deraney told The Related Press. "Being a well known entertainer isn't really what he needed to be. ... He had no self image, not an ounce of it."

Rich talked about his emotional well-being on Twitter and noted in October that he'd been clearheaded for a long time. He said he was more than a little flawed — alluding to captures, many stretches in recovery, a few excesses and "endless detoxes (and) backslides" — and encouraged his almost 19,000 supporters to never surrender.

"People weren't worked to get through psychological maladjustment," Rich tweeted in September. "The simple truth that certain individuals believe those to be frail, or have an absence of will is absolutely ludicrous ... since it's the inverse! It's takes an extremely, resilient individual ... a champion in the event that you will ... to fight such diseases."

Rich posted an image of himself from his prime with one-time youngster star Mickey Rooney.

"Everybody used to share with me, 'You are the cutting edge Mickey Rooney,'" he tweeted. "However, when Mickey Rooney let me know that himself, it implied a helluva significantly more to me!"

Almost quite a while back, Rich took part in a trick that Could magazine distributed about the entertainer winding up dead in a burglary outside a Los Angeles club in 1996. The article in the mostly secret magazine was expected as a parody of America's superstar fixation yet failed when the farce was uncovered.

"I think we were excessively unpretentious. Individuals were not getting the joke," Rich later told the Chicago Tribune. "I would rather not be dead."

Rich was the younger sibling to an age of Watchers at home as the mop-top child of a paper feature writer played by Dick Van Patten, who needs to bring up eight kids alone after his significant other in the show — and the entertainer who played her — passed on during recording of the principal season.

Rich featured in the series Code Red from 1981-82 and voiced the personality of Presto the Performer on Prisons and Mythical beasts from 1983-85, as per IMDB.com. He repeated his most popular job in two Eight Is Sufficient television film reunions.

However, the equilibrium of his acting vocation was in single-episode appearances on probably the most well known Programs of the time: The Adoration Boat, The 6,000,000 Dollar Man, Silver Spoons, and Baywatch. His latest credit recorded on IMDB was playing Crocodile Dundee on Reel Parody in 2003.