Actors Willie Aames and Adam Wealthy performed brothers for 5 seasons on the ABC dramedy Eight Is Sufficient, from 1977 to 1981. So Wealthy’s loss of life Saturday, on the age of 54, hit Aames notably onerous.
“This morning Winnie woke me with the heartbreaking information of Adam Wealthy’s passing. I am gutted,” he wrote Sunday on social media. “Adam was greater than a colleague. He was very a lot my solely little brother. A lifelong buddy. These previous couple of years Adam had desires of renewing his profession. He was a kind of child actors that our technology will at all times keep in mind. I can not let you know what number of dad and mom have instructed me they named their first baby ‘Nicolas’ after his Eight Is Sufficient character. The diminishing fraternity of youngsters that grew up within the golden years of household tv has misplaced one other of our personal. I’ll miss him deeply. Relaxation ‘A.R.’ – You had been the cutest TV child of all of them.”
Along with the greater than 100 episodes of Eight Is Sufficient that they did collectively, Wealthy and Aames, 62, each appeared in a few the present’s reunions, together with the 1989 TV film An Eight Is Sufficient Wedding ceremony. Within the ’80s Dungeons and Dragons cartoon, which aired from 1983 to 1985, Wealthy voiced Presto the Magician, whereas Aames supplied the phrases for Hank the Ranger. They performed themselves within the star-studded recording of the parody track “Baby Stars on Your Tv” within the 2003 film Dickie Roberts: Former Baby Star.
Wealthy’s explanation for loss of life has not been disclosed. In line with studies, no foul play is suspected.
One other former co-star of Wealthy’s, Betty Buckley, who performed the brothers’ step-mom, additionally famous that she’s going to “miss him significantly.” She described Wealthy as “a lightweight and my younger pal for the 4 seasons I used to be blessed to work with him on Eight Is Sufficient.”
“I adored him and beloved working with him in our scenes collectively on the present,” she continued. “He was so candy, humorous, recent and pure. He introduced loads of pleasure to all of us on the present and to our audiences. Adam and I’ve remained mates all of those years. His love and assist have at all times meant rather a lot to me.”
