• Medical Examiner has confirmed the death of Adam Rich.
• Rich passed away on Saturday at his home in Los Angeles.
• Rich encountered legal issues in 1991 about an alleged burglary.

Rich passed away on Saturday at his home in Los Angeles, his family said in a TMZ story. They died from separate causes.

He was 54.

Although Rich is most remembered for his work on “Eight Is Enough,” he also made appearances on a number of TV shows and several TV movies in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Among those credits are roles in the animated programmes “Dungeons & Dragons,” “Fantasy Island,” “CHiPs,” and “Small Wonder.”

Before taking a ten-year hiatus from on-camera work, Rich’s final TV appearance was on an episode of “Baywatch” in 1993.

Later, in the 2003 David Spade comedy “Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star,” he played himself. The same year, he also played Crocodile Dundee in the TV series “Reel Comedy.”

Rich encountered legal issues in 1991 about an alleged burglary. According to a Los Angeles Times article, his “Eight Is Enough” TV dad, actor Dick Van Patten, once covered his bail.

Rich took part in a 1996 hoax that falsely claimed that he had passed away and was authored by Dave Eggers, the author of “Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,” for Might Magazine as part of a satire on celebrity deaths.

The former child star reflected on his career in a post on Instagram in 2021, when he was a featured character in the CNN series “The History of the Sitcom.”

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