In a statement, his brother told entertainment publication Deadline that he took his own life.<\/p>\n
“We want people to know it, and there is no shame in it,” Keith Carradine said.<\/p>\n
“It is an illness that got the best of him, and I want to celebrate him for his struggle with it, and celebrate his beautiful soul.<\/p>\n
“He was profoundly gifted, and we will miss him every day.”<\/p>\n
Known for both his film and television work, Robert Carradine enjoyed a career spanning more than 40 years.<\/p>\n
Born in Los Angeles, he first appeared on television in Bonanza in 1971 and made his big-screen debut in the John Wayne Western The Cowboys the following year.<\/p>\n
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Robert Carradine co-hosted a game show with Curtis Armstrong. (AP: Evan Agostini)<\/p>\n
Carradine’s breakout role came in 1984 with the risqu\u00e9 comedy Revenge of the Nerds, in which he played head nerd Lewis Skolnick, remembered for his abrupt, infectious laugh.<\/p>\n
In the late 1980s and 1990s, he pursued his passion for racing, driving professionally for Lotus, according to a family statement.<\/p>\n
In the 2000s, he returned to television, earning recognition on the Disney Channel series Lizzie McGuire as the father of the eponymous character.<\/p>\n
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In the 2000s, he gained recognition on Disney Channel\u2019s Lizzie McGuire as Lizzie\u2019s father. (Instagram: hilaryduff)<\/p>\n
Hilary Duff, who starred as Lizzie, wrote on Instagram: “This one hurts. It’s really hard to face this reality about an old friend.”<\/p>\n
“There was so much warmth in the McGuire family and I always felt so cared for by my on-screen parents. I’ll be forever grateful for that,” the post read.<\/p>\n
“I’m deeply sad to learn Bobby was suffering.”<\/p>\n
Work remained consistent for the actor for a time, even if the projects diminished in prestige and quality.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Then Quentin Tarantino, ever the champion of fading character actors, cast Carradine in as one of the trackers in the 2012 film “Django Unchained”, after seeing a “very furry” photograph, as Carradine told Popdose.<\/p>\n
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Robert (right) was the brother of actor David Carradine (left), who played the tititular character in the Kill Bill movies, and died in 2009. (Instagram: therobertcarradine)<\/p>\n
In 2015, Carradine was cited for a Colorado crash that injured him and his wife, Edith Mani. They later divorced, after more than 25 years of marriage.<\/p>\n
Carradine is survived by his three children, actor Ever Carradine, Marika Reed Carradine and Ian Alexander Carradine.<\/p>\n
Ever Carradine wrote on Instagram: “Whenever anyone asks me how I turned out so normal, I always tell them it’s because of my dad. I knew my dad loved me, I knew it deep in my bones, and I always knew he had my back,”<\/p>\n
“I think it’s partly because we basically grew up together,” the post read.<\/p>\n
“Twenty years’ age difference really isn’t that much, and while I never ever thought of him as a sibling, I did always think of him as my partner. We were in it together.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Carradine, star of Lizzie McGuire and Revenge of the Nerds, has died aged 71. Mr Carradine, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[9716,64,63,35099,447,1300,252601,39624,134,13647,1973,219922,514,252600,252528,4031,14248],"class_list":["post-502424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-actor","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bipolar","tag-celebrities","tag-death","tag-dies-at-71","tag-dying","tag-entertainment","tag-famous","tag-hollywood","tag-lizzie-mcguire","tag-mental-health","tag-revenge-of-nerds","tag-robert-carradine","tag-star","tag-suicide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}