AMERICANALMANAC (Ken Jacobs) - Federal inspectors found UCLA psychiatric hospital failed to protect Robert Carradine before his death
A federal health inspection found that UCLA's locked psychiatric unit let a suicidal 71-year-old actor keep his leather belt and went unchecked for long stretches, failures his children now call fatal. Robert Carradine, the veteran actor best known for playing Hilary Duff's father on Disney's Lizzie McGuire, voluntarily checked himself into UCLA's Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital […] The post Federal inspectors found UCLA psychiatric hospital failed to protect Robert Carradine before his death appeared first on American Almanac .
A federal health inspection found that UCLA's locked psychiatric unit let a suicidal 71-year-old actor keep his leather belt and went unchecked for long stretches, failures his children now call fatal. Robert Carradine, the veteran actor best known for playing Hilary Duff's father on Disney's Lizzie McGuire, voluntarily checked himself into UCLA's Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital on January 16, 2026, because he was experiencing suicidal thoughts during what records describe as a "manic episode suicidal ideation." He had battled bipolar disorder, severe depression with psychotic features, and anxiety for roughly two decades. The next day, hospital staff found him unresponsive in his room after an apparent hanging involving a leather belt,…Open