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David Cassidy(1950-2017)

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  • Music Department
  • Producer
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David Cassidy in The Apprentice (2004)
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David Cassidy was born on April 12, 1950 in Manhattan, to Jack Cassidy, a very skilled actor and singer, and Evelyn Ward, an actress. By the time he was five, his parents were divorced and Jack had married actress Shirley Jones, an actress who in 1955 had just made Oklahoma! (1955). When David was about 10, his mother moved to California from New Jersey. A few years later, she married a director and, like Jack Cassidy and Shirley Jones, the marriage ended in divorce. David was thrown out of schools and hardly made it through one year of college. When he was eighteen, he went east to New York to perform in a play called "The Fig Leafs are Falling." He did some other spots on TV, but in 1970 he got the opportunity to play Keith Partridge on the TV show The Partridge Family (1970). (He did not know until he got the part that his real life stepmother Shirley Jones was to play his mother Shirley.) The show ended in 1974, but not the close relationship he had with his "sister" Susan Dey, who played Laurie Partridge. In 1976, David's father Jack died when his apartment caught on fire. That year, David married Kay Lenz, but they later divorced. He married again to a horse trainer in 1984, but it did not last either. In 1990, he married Sue Shifrin. He had two children, a son named Beau, with Sue, and actress Katie Cassidy. In 1994, he wrote a book about his years being Keith Partridge, and performed updated songs from the Partridge Family years.

David died on November 21, 2017, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He was sixty seven.
BornApril 12, 1950
DiedNovember 21, 2017(67)
BornApril 12, 1950
DiedNovember 21, 2017(67)
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  • Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy

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David Cassidy in David Cassidy: Fatal Secret (2019)
Susan Dey, Danny Bonaduce, David Cassidy, Suzanne Crough, Jeremy Gelbwaks, and Shirley Jones in The Partridge Family (1970)
Richard Pryor and David Cassidy in The Partridge Family (1970)
Susan Dey, Louis Gossett Jr., Richard Pryor, David Cassidy, and Shirley Jones in The Partridge Family (1970)
David Cassidy and Jeremy Burke in The Partridge Family (1970)
David Cassidy and Joseph V. Perry in The Partridge Family (1970)
Annette O'Toole and David Cassidy in The Partridge Family (1970)
Annette O'Toole and David Cassidy in The Partridge Family (1970)
Annette O'Toole and David Cassidy in The Partridge Family (1970)
Annette O'Toole and David Cassidy in The Partridge Family (1970)
Danny Bonaduce, David Cassidy, and Brian Forster in The Partridge Family (1970)
Rob Reiner, Danny Bonaduce, and David Cassidy in The Partridge Family (1970)

Known for

Susan Dey, Danny Bonaduce, David Cassidy, Suzanne Crough, Brian Forster, and Shirley Jones in The Partridge Family (1970)
The Partridge Family
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TV Series
  • Keith Partridge
Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer, Laurence Fishburne, Walton Goggins, Michael Peña, Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, and Hannah John-Kamen in Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
Ant-Man and the Wasp
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  • Soundtrack("Come On Get Happy")
  • 2018
Robert Forster, David Birney, and Richard E. Kalk in Police Story (1973)
Police Story
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TV Series
  • Officer Dan Shay
Ask Harriet (1998)
Ask Harriet
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TV Series
  • Producer

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Actor

  • Elisabeth Shue and Ted Danson in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000)
    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
  • Alexa PenaVega in Ruby & the Rockits (2009)
    Ruby & the Rockits
  • Austin Butler in Alexa Vega: You Are Where I Live (2009)
    Alexa Vega: You Are Where I Live
  • Biography (1987)
    Biography
  • Popstar (2005)
    Popstar
  • Eric Roberts, Andy Dick, Andrea Parker, Sara Rue, Sherri Shepherd, and Zachary Levi in Less Than Perfect (2002)
    Less Than Perfect
  • Nicole Sullivan, Christy Carlson Romano, John DiMaggio, and Will Friedle in Kim Possible (2002)
    Kim Possible
    • (voice)
  • Frankie Muniz, Justin Berfield, Bryan Cranston, Jane Kaczmarek, Christopher Masterson, and Erik Per Sullivan in Malcolm in the Middle (2000)
    Malcolm in the Middle
  • Will Patton, Gil Bellows, Gloria Reuben, and Paige Turco in The Agency (2001)
    The Agency
  • John Larroquette in The John Larroquette Show (1993)
    The John Larroquette Show
  • Ein Schloß am Wörthersee (1990)
    Ein Schloß am Wörthersee
  • Janeane Garofalo, Ben Stiller, Andy Dick, and Bob Odenkirk in The Ben Stiller Show (1992)
    The Ben Stiller Show
  • Jenna von Oÿ, Joey Lawrence, Mayim Bialik, Michael Stoyanov, and Ted Wass in Blossom (1990)
    Blossom
  • Dane Farwell and John Wesley Shipp in The Flash (1990)
    The Flash
  • Olivia d'Abo and David Cassidy in The Spirit of '76 (1990)
    The Spirit of '76

Music Department

  • David Cassidy in David Cassidy - Man Undercover (1978)
    David Cassidy - Man Undercover

Producer

  • The New Partridge Family
  • In Search of the Partridge Family
  • David Cassidy Live in Glasgow (2003)
    David Cassidy Live in Glasgow
  • The David Cassidy Story (2000)
    The David Cassidy Story
  • Ask Harriet (1998)
    Ask Harriet

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The Partridge Family: The Complete First Season
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Personal details

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    • Official Site
    • April 12, 1950
    • New York City, New York, USA
    • November 21, 2017
    • Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA(organ failure)
    • Sue ShifrinMarch 30, 1991 - April 27, 2016 (divorced, 1 child)
    • Katie Cassidy
    • Evelyn Ward
    • Patrick Cassidy(Half Sibling)
  • Other works
    Stage: Appeared (as Bobby Darin) in "The Rat Pack", Las Vegas, NV.
  • Publicity listings
    • 1 Biographical Movie
    • 1 Print Biography
    • 2 Portrayals
    • 1 Interview
    • 6 Articles
    • 1 Pictorial
    • 27 Magazine Cover Photos

Did you know

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  • Trivia
    At his peak, Cassidy was the world's highest paid live entertainer, and his official fan club was the largest in pop history - exceeding Elvis Presley and The Beatles.
  • Quotes
    (On reuniting with his ex-The Partridge Family (1970), series' star/real-life stepmother, Shirley Jones, who was asked to guest-star in Ruby & the Rockits (2009)): We paid her a lot of money. She is a wonderful actress. People forget she won an Academy Award. When I was young, she taught me a lot how to deal with the pressure and the fame, because she became a star when she was 18. I was 19.
    • Frequently worked with 'Shirley Jones' and/or her family

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