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Brian Melley | Associated Press

Adam Rich, former child actor from ‘Eight Is Enough,’ dies at 54

Adam Rich (left) poses with his TV father, Dick Van Patten, for the 1987 TV movie “Eight Is Enough: A Family Reunion.” (NBC)

LOS ANGELES — Adam Rich, the child actor with a pageboy mop-top who charmed TV audiences in the late 1970s as “America’s little brother” on “Eight Is Enough,” has died. He was 54.

Rich died Saturday in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles, said Lt. Aimee Earl of the Los Angeles County Medical-Examiner Coroner’s office. The cause of death was under investigation but was not considered to be suspicious.

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