Adam Rich, ‘Eight Is Enough’ star, dead at 54

Page Six ^ | 01/08/2023 | Desiree Murphy

[Drew68]

Adam Rich, best known for starring in “Eight Is Enough,” has died. He was 54.

The actor died Saturday at his Los Angeles area home, a family member confirmed to TMZ.

A cause of death has yet to be revealed but there was reportedly no foul play, a law enforcement source told the outlet, adding that Rich was found lifeless by an unidentified person who came to his residence.

Page Six has reached out to Rich’s rep for comment.

Born Oct. 12, 1968 in Brooklyn, New York, Rich rose to fame in the ’70s after portraying Nicholas Bradford, the youngest son of the Bradford brood, on “Eight Is Enough.”

The ABC show, which also starred Dick Van Patten, Lani O’Grady, Connie Needham, Grant Goodeve and more, ran from 1977 to 1981.

“I think he’s why the show was a big success,” Van Patten said of his former co-star in a 2011 interview with Stephen J. Abramson for the Television Academy Foundation. “People loved him! [Fans] named a child Nicholas and everything because of him.”

He added, “He was cute, and he was a good actor. He was very natural.”

Rich’s other TV credits include “Code Red,” “Dungeons & Dragons,” “Small Wonder,” “St. Elsewhere” and “Baywatch.”

[SaveFerris]

Yep. So many were bragging about it.

We’ve had several articles showing that.

[Kriggerel]

I can still remember him faking his death in an issue of Might Magazine back in 1996.

[MayflowerMadam]

“God I hated his haircut as a child.”

I had that haircut. As an adult. On purpose. My Dorothy Hamill wedge would morph into that if not trimmed regularly.

[mware]

Ah.. the Ken Burns hair cut.

[Vermont Lt]

More likely a different kind of jab.

[Sparky1776]

I thought Elizabeth played by Connie Needham and Nancy played by Dianne Kay were cute. Sad thing about Adam.

[MeganC]

I’m just going to take a guess here and assume you’re on your sixth or seventh booster. You feel free to take your chances.

By the way services at the Branch Covidian Church start at eleven. You should be there, Lord Fauci requires your mindless obedience.

[conservative98]

The jabs or TDS?

Got my second booster, and guess what… SCIENCE is NONPARTISAN!#GetVaccinated💉🇺🇸— Adam Rich 🦍 (@TheeAdamRich) April 11, 2022

Murdoch receives COVID-19 vaccine… as Fox News host casts suspicion… ⁦😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫… 🙄🤯🤬@FoxNews⁩… ⁦@TuckerCarlson⁩ 🖕

Get vaccinated MoFo’s…
💉💪🏼,… EZPZ !!! https://t.co/FDc9yiP9XN— Adam Rich 🦍 (@TheeAdamRich) May 6, 2021

…Oh and… the “VACCINE 💉”… is also…

***NONPARTISAN***🇺🇸…!!!

So Pls!… be cool 😎 & kind… & #GetVaccinated for yourself, your family and friends & the rest of us🙏🏼! pic.twitter.com/OQ4DTAEqnG— Adam Rich 🦍 (@TheeAdamRich) October 6, 2021

🤣 I’ve detoxed from opiates, and benzos... over 💯 times...!!!
I think I can handle the #vaccine 💉💪🏼... 😏 Thx Bro,😉 🙏🏼 https://t.co/UgZm6WYLUu— Adam Rich 🦍 (@TheeAdamRich) April 2, 2021

I think our “Founding Fathers” would of definitely gotten vaccinated!!! Don’t you?
Be an actual…
PATRIOT 🇺🇸… #GetVaccinated💉! pic.twitter.com/VJXYPzw5IU— Adam Rich 🦍 (@TheeAdamRich) August 1, 2021

Real “PATRIOTS” are VACCINATED!
🇺🇸#ImVaxxedAreYou— Adam Rich 🦍 (@TheeAdamRich) July 25, 2021

I am vaccinated because:

A.
I trust… “SCIENCE” !!!!!!!

&
B.
I care more about the lives of my family & friends… & even YOU!… than my own personal FreeDUMB’s !!!#GetVaccinated!!! Now MF’s !!!🙏🏼— Adam Rich 🦍 (@TheeAdamRich) July 24, 2021

COVID-19 vaccines are free. Get vaccinated, folks.— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) June 10, 2021

I did it… Twice✌️!!!!!!!
For my family and friends… and y’all…🥰!😘
Get #vaccinated bitches💉💪!!! https://t.co/bDJgW4Csgw— Adam Rich 🦍 (@TheeAdamRich) June 10, 2021

This makes sense to me… and should to anyone with any common sense… !!!

Get vaccinated mofo’s… !!! 💉💪🏼
I did it for my family and friends and YOU… !

🚨🚨🚨… 👇👇👇 https://t.co/OrmsKbdwf2— Adam Rich 🦍 (@TheeAdamRich) May 5, 2021

Adam Rich... (this one, as I know there are many of us,😉😁)...
is now FULLY vaccinated... 💉💪🏼

I did it for my family, and friends... and all of you...!!!
🥰❤️😘

Be a true Patriot... and
get #vaccinated🇺🇸
🙏🏼

✌🏼& 🤟🏼— Adam Rich 🦍 (@TheeAdamRich) April 30, 2021

#vaccinated 😷🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/h4vZHQxEi2— Adam Rich 🦍 (@TheeAdamRich) April 17, 2021

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I’m... #vaccinated...!!!

Thanks... @POTUS...!!!

Get er’ done ✔️...!!!
🇺🇸🙏🏼 #Sheeeeeeeit...💩...!!! #GetVaccinated💉 💪🏼 👊🏼 https://t.co/TurPrbf7kV— Adam Rich 🦍 (@TheeAdamRich) April 9, 2021

#vaccinated 💉💪🏼

Thanks @POTUS @JoeBiden... for caring... and getting it done ✔️

We still need to #MaskUp😷 for a while longer though... Texas...?!?!! https://t.co/946XTVDaBd pic.twitter.com/wcddjefRRQ— Adam Rich 🦍 (@TheeAdamRich) April 6, 2021

On my way to get #vaccinated
Wish me luck...
🙌🏼✊🏾👍🏿🤟👊🏼✌🏾🙏🏿💙#VaccinesSaveLives get er’ done America🇺🇸 #POTUS #GoJoe! pic.twitter.com/8lmHpevKc8— Adam Rich 🦍 (@TheeAdamRich) April 6, 2021

In light of Kirk Cameron trending ‘yet again’… for being an ignorant bigoted ass. Enjoy this look back of him from some of his favorite contemporaries ;) https://t.co/TZEqKtJZ6h— Adam Rich 🦍 (@TheeAdamRich) December 7, 2022

Please give whatever you can… it’ll make you feel really good… and you definitely want Mark Hamill to love you! ;) :)
🇺🇦 https://t.co/uNx3KL7f4g https://t.co/4p9QqWV27s— Adam Rich 🦍 (@TheeAdamRich) October 15, 2022

Adam Rich Retweeted

After yesterday’s hearing it’s clear: Donald Trump directed a conspiracy to violently overturn the results of a valid election and install himself as the illegitimate ruler of the United States of America.— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) October 15, 2022

Treasonous seditious Trump gets raided… “THE BEST IS YET TO COME!!!”— Adam Rich 🦍 (@TheeAdamRich) August 9, 2022

BREAKING: Putin surpasses Donald Trump as the worlds biggest piece of sh#t.— Adam Rich 🦍 (@TheeAdamRich) April 3, 2022

Breaking: Trump wasn’t hard on Putin, he had a hard on FOR Putin.#TrumpIsARussianAsset— Adam Rich 🦍 (@TheeAdamRich) March 16, 2022

It baffles my brain that there are still so many Americans in this country so totally unaware of how f**king guilty… treasonous… and seditious Donald Trump really was… and dangerously still is.— Adam Rich 🦍 (@TheeAdamRich) June 21, 2022

The only thing more dangerous for American democracy than indicting Donald J. Trump… is NOT indicting Donald J. Trump.

Lock. Him. Up!— Adam Rich 🦍 (@TheeAdamRich) July 27, 2022

I prefer not to hate… but when I do I prefer to hate Donald(f’n)Trump!

🍿— Adam Rich 🦍 (@TheeAdamRich) July 21, 2022

And so on and so on...

[cgbg]

The mass media propagandists want to reduce the population.

That tells you all you need to know about their medical advice!

[cgbg]

Another “trust the science” clown gets burned....the witch doctors had a better track record.

[ponygirl]

Reading that makes me think there WAS intention behind Trump promoting Fauci’s shots…

[Not_Who_U_Think]

In the beginning, anyone unvaccinated who died from disease was potentially a ‘undiagnosed’ COVID case to be held up as an example of an unenlightened fool.

Today, they are trying (and succeeding) in making it socially unacceptable to question any death. With 75% of the population injected, it’s bad form to mention that folks might have made a mistake.

[Chode]

from suddenly, or unexpectedly???

[SamAdams76]

Yes, my mom gave me and my bother the same exact haircut. She would just take scissors and cut straight across every couple months or so. If she let it get too long, my father would lose his temper and take the both of us to a barber and tell him to give us crew cuts. My father hated all kinds of long hair on boys.

My sister got the full treatment where she'd spend entire Saturday mornings at the salon with my mother. She had hair past her shoulders her entire childhood and always had it elaborately styled. My brother and I, our haircuts never exceeded five minutes.

I remember the Eight Is Enough show. It was on the air when I was a teenager. Saw a few episodes and it always seemed overly dramatic and overwrought to me. I thought "The Waltons" was a much better TV family show. Loved the old ladies who made moonshine and the guy who owned the general store. Salt of the earth people. But let's face it, John Boy was a wuss.

[SamAdams76]

Moe Howard. I think Jim Carrey copied him in "Dumber and Dumber"

[dowcaet]

He did have issues with drugs and alcohol back in the 80’s and 90’s and did a stint at the Betty Ford clinic. So many child actors have gone on to live miserable lives as adults.

[alternatives?]

As a guy, you look at the clothing and haircuts in the 70’s and 80’s you come to the conclusion to ignore fashion. However, if you were young had short hair during this period, you were considered a geek. I knew guys whose parents forced them to wear short hair and as soon as they were on their own wore it very long.

[SIDENET]

from suddenly, or unexpectedly???

I think it was the Unexpectedly variant of Suddenly.

[kiryandil]

Today, they are trying (and succeeding) in making it socially unacceptable to question any death. With 75% of the population injected, it’s bad form to mention that folks might have made a mistake.

Truth.

I can't bring it up to my vaccinated relatives.

[Sirius Lee]

For some bizarre reason mothers LOVED that hair for their boys.

I call it the "penis head" haircut. The 70's were awful in so many respects.