Robert Carradine, an American actor who was most famously known in roles played in Revenge of the nerds and Lizzie McGuire, has passed away at the age of 71.
His family told them in a statement that the actor committed suicide following almost 20 years living with bipolar disorder.
Carradine family added that it wished to publicize the reason behind his death to educate people on the stigma they have on mental illness.
His brother Keith explained to Deadline that it should be popularized among people, and there is nothing embarrassing about it.
The cast of Lizzie McGuire, led by Hilary Duff, devoted most of the tributes to her ex-screen father, posting on Instagram: This one hurts. It is so difficult to come to this reality regarding a once good friend.
Carradine was born on 24 March 1954, as the youngest of the sons of the actor John Carradine, and a brother to David Carradine and Keith Carradine.
Robert Carradine got the support of his brother David and auditioned to join 1972 film, The Cowboys, a film that starred John Wayne and it was Carradine first time on screen.
He also starred in and in Mean Streets (1973) by Martin Scorsese, Coming Home (1978), Oscar nomination, with Jane Fonda, The Long Riders (1980), with Mark Hamill, The Big Red One (1980), and Django Unchained by Quentin Tarantino in 2012.
However, he was most commonly known as the actor of playing the nerd Lewis Skolnick in Revenge of the Nerds – one of the most successful film series of the Eighties, and the father of Lizzie McGuire in the noughties Disney Channel series.
In honor, Lizzie McGuire Duff, said: The McGuire family was so warm and I always felt so well taken care of by my parents onscreen.
I shall always be thankful to that. I am so heartbroken to hear that Bobby was ailing. I feel so bad for him and his family and all those people who have loved him.
The family of Carradine made an announcement of his death in a statement that declared it with deep sadness and that the US actor was a loved father, grandfather, uncle, and brother.
and in a world as dark as that can get, said they all round about, Bobby had always been our lighthouse on light.
We miss this beautiful soul about which we wish to say a word and to express that Bobby fought with his two-decade struggle with the bipolar disorder and the way he did it so valiantly.
His story can be used to shed light on the topic and hopefully bring a change to discussing the stigma that accompanies mental illness.
It continued by stating that they request that privacy to mourn this incredible loss. Thank you very much, I am thankful that you touch our hearts.
In his personal individual quote to Deadline, the brother of Carradine, Keith Carradine, said: It is a disease that got the best of him, and I want to applaud him due to the way he fought this disease, and applaud his gorgeous soul.
He was enormously talented and we shall miss him on a daily basis. We shall find comfort in the fact that he could be so funny, so wise and so unconditionally accepting and tolerant. That’s who my baby brother was.”
Robert Carradine fathered an actor daughter with Susan Snyder called, Ever Carradine. He subsequently got married to Edith Mani and they had two children Marika and Ian before divorcing in 2015 after 25 years of marriage. In 2017 when Mani was going through the divorce proceedings, he accused Robert Carradine of attempting to kill both of them in a car crash in Colorado in 2015, of which Carradine confessed that he was in a psychotic state at the time.
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