{"id":487600,"date":"2026-02-24T12:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/487600\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T12:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:24:16","slug":"actor-robert-carradine-famous-for-lizzie-mcguire-and-revenge-of-the-nerds-dies-at-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/487600\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor Robert Carradine, famous for ‘Lizzie McGuire’ and ‘Revenge of the Nerds,’ dies at 71"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Carradine, the actor known for appearing in the Disney series \u201cLizzie McGuire,\u201d has died, his family confirmed Tuesday.<\/p>\n

He was 71.<\/p>\n

His manager Keith Carradine, also his brother, said in a statement that the actor had \u201csuccumbed to bipolar disorder after fighting it for almost 20 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hilary Duff<\/a>, who played Lizzie McGuire alongside Carradine as her on-screen dad, was among those to pay tribute to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis one hurts. It\u2019s really hard to face this reality about an old friend,\u201d she wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was so much warmth in the McGuire family and I always felt so cared for by my on-screen parents. I\u2019ll be forever grateful for that. I\u2019m deeply sad to learn Bobby was suffering. My heart aches for him, his family, and everyone who loved him,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\"ActorRobert Carradine at home in Los Angeles in 1986.Bob Riha Jr \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

Jake Thomas, who also starred in the show, wrote on Instagram: \u201cMy heart hurts today. I was fortunate to know Bobby for most of my life. And he was one of the coolest guys you could ever meet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Robert Carradine’s daughter, Ever, confirmed the death on her Instagram account and paid tribute to her father. \u201cMy sweet, funny dad, who\u2019s only 20 years older than I am, who never missed an opportunity to drive me to the airport or tell me how much he loved my homemade salad dressing, is gone,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

Actor Martha Plimpton, Carradine\u2019s niece, wrote on Instagram: \u201cMy Uncle Bobby was the best one of all 8 brothers; blood, adopted, and step. Out of all of them, he was the absolute best. He was the one who cuddled me when I came to visit my father in LA for the first time at 8 or 9 years old.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"US-ENTERTAINMENT-NEON-FILM\"Robert Carradine in Los Angeles in Nov. 2025. Michael Tran \/ AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Born in Hollywood in 1954, Carradine was part of a famous acting family and had more than 150 acting credits to his name. He starred in the successful 1984 comedy movie \u201cRevenge of the Nerds\u201d and had a string of TV appearances. <\/p>\n

He was the son of actor John Carradine; brother to Christopher and Keith, and half-brother to David, Bruce and Michael Bowen.<\/p>\n

He is also survived by Ian Carradine and Marica Reed Carradine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Carradine, the actor known for appearing in the Disney series \u201cLizzie McGuire,\u201d has died, his family confirmed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-487600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}