Ricky Schroder has continued acting as an adult, usually billed as Rick Schroder, notably as "Newt" on the Western miniseries Lonesome Dove and in the crime-drama series NYPD Blue.
26 Facts About Ricky Schroder
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Ricky Schroder made his directorial debut with the film Black Cloud and has produced several films and television series including the anthology film Locker 13 and the war documentary The Fighting Season.
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Ricky Schroder's mother quit her job to raise him and his sister Dawn.
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Ricky Schroder made his film debut as the son of Jon Voight's character in The Champ, a 1979 remake of the 1931 film of the same title.
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Ricky Schroder was nominated for, and subsequently won, a Golden Globe award in 1980 for Best New Male Star of the Year in a Motion Picture, becoming at age nine the youngest Golden Globe winner in history.
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Ricky Schroder starred as the title character in Little Lord Fauntleroy, alongside Alec Guinness.
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Ricky Schroder then became well known as the star of the television series Silver Spoons.
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Ricky Schroder played a starring role as Ricky Stratton, the son of a wealthy and eccentric millionaire, Edward Stratton.
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Ricky Schroder struggled with his identity as an actor when Silver Spoons ended.
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Ricky Schroder avoided the vices of other child actors and attempted to establish himself as a more mature actor, dropping the "y" from his first name.
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Ricky Schroder's mother enrolled him in Calabasas High School, but Schroder had trouble adjusting to the new environment.
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In 1988, a year after Silver Spoons ended, Ricky Schroder starred in a prime time CBS TV movie based on a true story, the drama Too Young the Hero, as 12-year-old Calvin Graham who passes for 17 to enlist in World War II.
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Ricky Schroder appeared as the guest timekeeper in Wrestlemania 2 for a match between Hulk Hogan and King Kong Bundy.
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Ricky Schroder's co-starring role in the Western miniseries Lonesome Dove and its sequel, Return to Lonesome Dove, helped him to be recognized in more mature roles.
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Ricky Schroder made his directorial debut in 2004 with the feature film Black Cloud, a drama written by him about a Navajo boxer.
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Ricky Schroder directed and starred in the music video for "Whiskey Lullaby", a song by Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss.
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Ricky Schroder guest-starred in a January 2011 episode of ABC's No Ordinary Family.
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Ricky Schroder spent 110 days in Afghanistan with the US military in 2014 to capture footage.
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Ricky Schroder portrayed the father of Dolly Parton in the 2015 TV film Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors and its sequel, Dolly Parton's Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love.
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In 2000, Ricky Schroder joined his wife's church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Ricky Schroder is an avid hunter and fisherman, having learned to shoot at the age of 10 from actor William Holden on the set of The Earthling.
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Ricky Schroder has long identified as a Republican, and he spoke at the 2000 Republican National Convention, although he said in 2010 that he did not align with either major political party.
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In 2019, Ricky Schroder was arrested twice within a month for suspicion of domestic violence; no charges were filed.
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In November 2020, Ricky Schroder contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars towards the $2million bail fund for Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year old found not guilty in the shooting deaths of two people during the August 2020 unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
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In May 2021, Ricky Schroder created controversy when he uploaded a video to social media that showed him harassing a Costco employee regarding the company's policy and California mandate requiring face masks or coverings to be worn inside stores during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Shortly after the incident, Ricky Schroder began receiving backlash, causing him to upload a second video apologizing to the employee, stating that while he stood by his beliefs on the mask mandate, he was sorry if he hurt the employee's feelings.