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David Bruce Cassidy (natural April 12, 1950) is an American actor and musician who starred in the television series The Partridge Family from 1970 to 1974. He is the boy of Irish Catholic actor Jack Cassidy and actress Evelyn Ward, who was of English Protestant descent.
Before A Partridge Personal, Cassidy appeared in Marcus Welby, M.D., The Mod Squad, Bonanza, and Ironsides. Once he began working on The Partridge Personal nonentity knew that he can sing, until Cassidy himself brought it higher. He so took above a lead vocals for The Partridge Personal recordings & quickly became the teen idol. On The Partridge Personal he played Keith Partridge, boy of Shirley Partridge, world health organization was played by Shirley Jones, Cassidy's real-life stepmother.
There were tenner Partridge Personal albums & many solo albums produced in a period of the begin of the indicate. At his peak, Cassidy was the world's greatest paid survive entertainer, & his official fan club was a largest inside popular history -- exceeding Elvis Presley and The Beatles. However, away from a approximate USD $500 million that A Partridge Personal processed internationally from either his image inside marketing, he was allegedly just paid $15,000.
Rebelling against squeaky-do Keith, Cassidy shocked his immature fans by posing nude in the May 11, 1972 Rolling Stone for Annie Leibovitz. Once the Fourteen month-old fan, Bernadette Whelan, died of coronary failure in May 30, 1974 (from the inherited disease) aggravated when attending the May 26 show at London's White City Stadium, a shaken Cassidy quit two touring & Partridge Personal & took the Threesome month sabattical. He so freed many critically easily-received albums in RCA during the late 1970s. He as well starred within an episode of Police Story, and received an Emmy nomination. Due to the profits of the episode, NBC created the indicate according to it known as David Cassidy: Man Under Cover. the indicate was non a hit & was cancelled when 1 year.
Cassidy has appeared around many Broadway musicals, including a version of Little Johnny Jones (played in the movies by James Cagney) and a original version of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat , Time on London's West End & Blood Brothers opposite half-brother Shaun Cassidy and Petula Clark - among others. Inside 1996, he took across from either Michael Crawford in the Las Vegas show, EFX; turning it around using his complete re-rescript into one of Las Vegas's favourite hit shows - merely retiring when injuring his foot when you took the performance. He as well created an additional indicate known as The Rat Pack is Back, in which he mass produced guest appearances when Bobby Darin. A indicate ran super with success. Inside 2000, he wrote & appeared in the Las Vegas indicate At The Copa with Sheena Easton as both the young and old versions of the lead character.
Within January, 2005 he visited a morning-indicate unsuspecting hosts for Chicago, Illinois oldies station WJMK-FM for a week, enjoying several entertaining call for-around conversations by using fans - one of which won dejeuner by using Cassidy.
His number 1 married woman was actress Kay Lenz, and his 2nd was South African sports woman Meryl Tanz. Cassidy married his third married woman in March 30, 1991, with whom he has the boy, Beau; he has the girl, Katherine, from the former relationship. When "Katie Cassidy", Katherine experienced of these Cd-single, "I Think I Love You" in Artemis Records (released in July 16, 2002), the equivalent song that was the #1 hit for her father in the fall of 1970.
Discography (Solo)
Cherish
Rock Me Baby
''Dreams are Nuthin' More than Wishes
Cassidy Live!
The Higher They Climb
Home is where the Heart is
Gettin' it in the Streets
Romance
His Greatest Hits - Live
The Best of David Cassidy
David Cassidy
Didn't You Used to Be?
Old Trick New Dog
Classic Songs
Then and Now
A Touch of Blue
Discography (The Partridge Family)
The Partridge Family Album
Up To Date
Sound Magazine
Christmas Card
Shopping Bag
At Home With Their Greatest Hits
The Partridge Family Notebook
Crossword Puzzle
Bulletin Board
World of the Partridge Family
Come On Get Happy!: The Very Best of The Partridge Family
Filmography
The Night the City Screamed (1980)
Instant Karma (1990)
Spirit of '76'' (1991)
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