Actor Adam Wealthy, greatest identified for enjoying his youthful brother within the Seventies TV collection Eight is Sufficient, has died on the age of 54.

The workplace of the Los Angeles County Forensic Institute’s Forensic Drugs Institute stated Wealthy died at his dwelling in Los Angeles on Saturday.

The reason for loss of life was beneath investigation however was not thought-about suspicious.

Wealthy had a restricted performing profession after enjoying Nicholas Bradford, the youngest of eight youngsters at age eight, within the hit drama collection that ran from 1977 to 1981.

His writer, Danny Deraney, stated Wealthy suffers from a type of treatment-defying despair and is making an attempt to erase the stigma of speaking about psychological sickness.

“Being a well-known actor wasn’t what he wished to be… He had no ego, not an iota of ego,” he stated.

Deraney took to Twitter to pay tribute to “America’s little brother.”

“The person was merely a fantastic man,” she stated.

“He was unselfish and all the time taken care of these he cared about… so many individuals who grew up with him really feel that part of their childhood is gone and they’re unhappy right this moment.”

In Eight Sufficient, Wealthy was the youthful brother of a era of TV viewers because the doormat son of a newspaper columnist performed by Dick Van Patten.

After his spouse and the actress who performed him died through the filming of the primary season, the daddy needed to elevate eight youngsters by himself.

Wealthy additionally appeared on Code Crimson from 1981 to 1982 and voiced Presto the Magician in Dungeons & Dragons from 1983 to 1985, in accordance with IMDB.

He reprized his greatest identified position in two Eight Sufficient TV film reunions.

Nevertheless, the steadiness of his performing profession has been in one-episode collection reminiscent of The Love Boat, The Six Million Greenback Man, Silver Spoons and Baywatch.

Wealthy mentioned his psychological well being on Twitter, noting in October that he had been sober for seven years.

He stated it wasn’t good—citing arrests, a number of rehabs, a number of overdoses, and “myriad detoxes.” [and] repeats”—and urged his practically 19,000 followers to by no means surrender.

“Mankind was not created to face up to psychological sickness,” Wealthy tweeted in September.

“It is completely ridiculous that some folks see them as weak or lack of will… as a result of fairly the alternative! It takes a really, very robust particular person… a warrior if you want… to struggle this type of illness.”

AP