willie aames

This news article is about a movi star willie ames. He is the star of “Eight is Enough,” “Charles in Charge” and an actor in other television shows and movie.
It had to be Aames, who filed for bankruptcy last year and sold off his belongings on Thursday.

Early on, a throng waited outside for Aames to appear while workers put the markers of the actor’s life in his driveway.

There was a plush leather couch and chair and a giant television. Also, a lion head mounted on an oak pedestal, along with stuffed wild boars and other wildlife he hunted. Some other items included crystal and posters of him when he was young. He had the blond curls that helped launch his acting career at age nine. Now he is 48 and the curls are gray.

Mikki Wehrli of Olathe said, “I’m looking at the stuffed lion.”

It was not to be, but she would later leave lucky. As a waitress at Winstead’s on the Plaza in the 1990s, she said, she used to serve Aames often and he tipped well, she said.

Many there felt they knew him.

He became a teen star with “Eight is Enough,” which ran from 1977 to 1981 and toured the world as lead singer and guitarist with his own rock band. There were problems with drugs and he and his second wife beat them together and became Christians.

As “Bibleman,” Aames taught Christianity to kids for years.

Shortly after noon Thursday, he walked out smiling with a stuffed deer head under his arm.

“I think you’re all nuts,” he said. “I want to party with you.”

One in the crowd shouted, “We’re sorry, Willie.”

Another said, “We’re your friends.”

People cheered and clapped.

Soon Aames was in the middle of the crowd trying to dicker on prices after he told handlers, “I have no idea what the prices are.”