Updated 04-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about ROBERT CARRADINE!
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My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Robert Reed Carradine (born march 24, 1954) is an american actor . his first film role was in the 1972 film The Cowboys . he also portrayed fraternity president “Lewis Skolnick” carradine’s parents divorced when he was 2 years old . a bitter custody battle led to his father gaining custody of him and his brothers . the children spent three months in a home for abused children “it was very sad. we would stand there on either side of the glass door crying” “Carradine was raised primarily by his stepmother, his father’s third wife, Doris Grimshaw . carradine and his brother, David, performed in small clubs in los angeles and san francisco . he was also featured in a short-lived television series, of the same name, based in the film Robert’s character wins the cross country road race, beating the favorite, Coy “Cannonball” Buckman . in 1978, Robert landed a demanding role in Hal Ashby’s Oscar-winning Vietnam carradine’s biggest film success to date came in 1984 when he starred in Revenge of the Nerds as the lead nerd Lewis Skolnick . to prepare for the comedy, Carradine Carradine reprised the role of Skolnick in three sequels . he took over as executive producer in the latter two . in 2018, he joined Andrew Cassese and Don Gibb in an interview at the he appeared on his brother David’s series, Kung Fu, as Sunny Jim, the mute companion of Serenity Johnson . he was also a guest star in an episode of Law & Order: Criminal he played father Sam McGuire on Lizzie McGuire from 2001-2004 . he appeared in the ER episode “Sleepless in Chicago” alongside Anthony Edwards . in 2015 he appeared on a fourth season episode of Celebrity Wife Swap . he is also the uncle (via his older brother Keith) of actress Martha Plimpton . his wife was also injured in the crash . he was on his way to Telluride, Colorado, where his brother had lived in the early 1990s .