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Jonathan Brandis

Speedily assembling a resume as long as your arm long before most of us even know what we want to do with the rest of our lives, Jonathan Brandis showed up in Who's the Boss?, Blossom, L.A. Law, Full House, The Wonder Years, and Murder, She Wrote, among tons of others.

As a child and teenage star for many years, it seemed like he had no shortage of work. He was 16 when he made Ladybugs, and 17 when he was cast as a teen genius in Steven Spielberg's SeaQuest 2032. When SeaQuest was canceled in 1996, however, the once-plentiful casting offers dried up. As has been the case with far too many former child actors, depression soon plagued the young star, and he struggled to navigate a new career path. Brandis' battles sadly got the best of him, and he died after sustaining injuries from an attempted suicide via hanging at the age of 27 in Los Angeles, California.