This text incorporates references to suicide.
Actor Robert Carradine, identified for his roles in “Lizzie McGuire,” has died on the age of 71.
Deadline experiences that Carradine took his personal life after battling bipolar dysfunction for 20 years. Please learn the household’s assertion under.
It’s with deep disappointment that we should share the passing of our beloved father, grandfather, uncle, and brother, Robert Carradine. In a world that may really feel so darkish, Bobby has all the time been a beacon of sunshine to these round him. We’re saddened by the lack of this stunning soul and want to pay tribute to Bobby’s courageous combat in opposition to bipolar dysfunction, which lasted virtually 20 years. We hope his journey can shine a light-weight and encourage us to deal with the stigma round psychological sickness. We ask for privateness at the moment as we grieve this immeasurable loss. Thanks on your understanding and compassion.
Robert’s older brother, Keith Carradine, additionally issued a press release, stressing that he needed the general public to find out about Robert’s bipolar dysfunction and that there was “no disgrace in it.”
We wish individuals to know that, and there is no disgrace in that. This illness was the one which took essentially the most out of him and I wish to rejoice his combat in opposition to it and honor his stunning soul. He was a deep expertise and we’ll miss him daily. We are going to take solace in realizing how humorous, how sensible, and utterly accepting and forgiving he was. That was my child brother.
Carradine was born on March 24, 1954, to actor John Carradine and Sonia Sorel. His first movie credit score was within the 1972 John Wayne movie Cowboys, the place he auditioned and acquired the position after his brother David instructed him he had “all to achieve and nothing to lose.” Carradine then appeared in Martin Scorsese’s Imply Streets, Coming Residence with Jane Fonda and Jon Voight, and eventually The Lengthy Riders, which additionally featured his brothers David and Keith. The trio performed real-life outlaw brothers Bob, Cole, and Jim Youthful. He then performed the position of Louis Skolnick in Revenge of the Nerds and its sequel.
Within the early 2000s, he made his identify taking part in Sam McGuire, the daddy of Hilary Duff’s titular character in Lizzie McGuire, on the Disney Channel unique present. He was a collection common in each seasons, co-starring with David in a season 1 episode wherein David tutored Matt McGuire (Jake Thomas) within the methods of kung fu. Carradine reprized his position as Sam in The Lizzie McGuire Film and was scheduled to play Sam once more within the Hulu revival collection earlier than it was canceled.
Past his performing profession, Carradine was captivated with taking part in guitar, performing with David and Keith on the Sheridan Opera Home in Telluride, Colorado, and forming a band referred to as The Waybacks within the Eighties. His different ardour was driving race vehicles, which advanced from go-kart racing on the age of 11 to racing in Grands Prix within the Eighties and Nineteen Nineties, in addition to driving for Staff Lotus with Paul Newman.
Robert Carradine is survived by his youngsters, grandchildren, siblings, nieces and nephews, and his household requests privateness at the moment.
