Robert Carradine Movies and Career Information

Robert Reed Carradine (born March 24, 1954) is an American actor. He is probably best known for portraying Lewis Skolnick in the successful Revenge of the Nerds series of comedy films and Sam McGuire on the Disney Channel sitcom Lizzie McGuire. Robert Carradine was born in Hollywood, California, the son of actress and artist Sonia Sorel and actor John Carradine. He is one of a number of prolific actors in the Carradine family. He is the brother of Christopher and Keith Carradine, and paternal half-brother of Bruce and David Carradine, and maternal half-brother of Michael Bowen. Carradine's parents were divorced when he was 2 years old. A bitter custody battle lead to his father gaining custody of him and his brothers, Christopher and Keith, after the children had spent three months in home for abused children as wards of the court. His brother Keith said of the experience, "It was like being in jail. There were bars on the windows, and we were only allowed to see our parents through glass doors. 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, and believed her