Lance Loud 2001 Deaths

Lance Loud

oldest son in the California family that opened its doors and lives to PBS for the 1973 groundbreaking series An American Family. One of the earliest reality shows, the program chronicled the family's emotional ups and downs, making the Louds reluctant celebrities. Loud came out on the show. He was in the punk band the Mumps in the late 1970s and later became a journalist. He died of complications of hepatitis C.