Robert Carradine’s method of demise was confirmed as suicide by the Los Angeles Medical Examiner’s Workplace following his passing on Monday.
Based on on-line information seen by TheWrap, the L.A. Medical Examiner’s Workplace dominated that Carradine died by suicide after his household shared in an announcement that the actor, finest identified for his work within the “Revenge of the Nerds” movies, “The Lengthy Riders” and Disney Channel’s “Lizzie McGuire,” handed following “a two-decade battle with Bipolar Dysfunction.” 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,” the actor’s household wrote in an announcement to media. “In a world that may really feel so darkish, Bobby was all the time 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 in opposition to his practically two-decade battle with Bipolar Dysfunction. We hope his journey can shine a lightweight and encourage addressing the stigma that attaches to psychological sickness. Presently we ask for the privateness to grieve this unfathomable loss. With gratitude in your understanding and compassion.”
Carradine was a member of the storied Carradine performing household, which additionally contains his brothers, actors David Carradine, Keith Carradine and Disney Imagineer Christopher Carradine. Along with his work on “Lizzie McGuire,” “Revenge of the Nerds” and “The Lengthy Riders,” Carradine was identified for his performances in 1972’s “The Cowboys” alongside John Wayne, in addition to Hal Ashby’s Oscar-winning movie “Coming Dwelling,” which additionally starred Jane Fonda and Jon Voight.
Within the wake of his passing, a number of of Carradine’s associates and former colleagues took to social media to pay tribute to the late actor.
Hilary Duff, who performed Carradine’s onscreen daughter within the “Lizzie McGuire” collection and its 2003 follow-up movie, “The Lizzie McGuire Film,” shared on Instagram Monday that she was struggling “to face this actuality about an previous pal.”
She added: “There was a lot heat within the McGuire household and I all the time felt so cared for by my on-screen dad and mom. I’ll be endlessly grateful for that. I’m deeply unhappy to be taught Bobby was struggling. My coronary heart aches for him, his household and everybody who beloved him.”
Jake Thomas, who performed Matt McGuire, shared his personal tribute on Instagram, writing, “My coronary heart hurts right now. I used to be lucky to know Bobby for many of my life. And he was one of many coolest guys you can ever meet. Humorous, pragmatic, typically cranky, all the time slightly eccentric.”
Jamie Lee Curtis remembered Carradine as one among her “first loves” on social media, writing in her personal tribute on Instagram: “I met him reside on tv on the Dinah Shore present after they had a bunch of second technology actors, we might name them now Nepo infants, Veronica Cartwright, and Bobby and I got here on final and Bobby rearranged the place we have been all sitting in order that he might sit subsequent to me and he kissed me, reside on tv. A really public meet cute.”
Carradine is survived by his kids, Ever, Marika and Ian, in addition to a number of grandchildren, brothers, nieces and nephews.
The Nationwide Suicide Prevention Lifeline 988 is a free, 24/7 confidential service that may present folks in suicidal disaster or emotional misery, or these round them, with assist, data and native assets.
