David Cassidy
David Cassidy
David Bruce Cassidy is an American actor, singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is widely known for his role as Keith Partridge, the son of Shirley Partridge, in the 1970s musical-sitcom The Partridge Family, which led to him becoming one of pop culture's most celebrated teen idols and pop singers of the 1970s. He has since had a career in both acting and music. During and after The Partridge Family, he and Danny Bonaduce, who played his younger brother in the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth12 April 1950
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I've had three biographies made about my life so people know an awful lot about me.
I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies.
I've had a passion for horses since I was very young - I used to sit on the floor in front of the races on television and pretend to be a jockey - and I first began reading the racing form on the set of 'The Partridge Family.
If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was in my father.
My mom used to take me down to the Jersey Shore when I was 7, 8, 9 years old. I can remember being down in that area - Belmar, Seaside Heights, Asbury Park and all those places that I went back and revisited.
Oh, yeah. I grew up in Southern California in the 1960′s. It was very different. I was an only child as opposed to having siblings. My brothers all lived with my step-mom. I am very close to them, but we were not raised in the same house.
Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I'm living my dream.
My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.
My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is being taken to see him in a matinee.
My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.
My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I.
When I was 11, I moved to Los Angeles to live with my father and stepmother and my half brothers. I became really close to my stepmother, and I am still very close to my brothers. My stepmother is the actress Shirley Jones, who was in 'The Partridge Family' alongside me, so we worked together for years.
In a very short period of time, actors can become kind of relevant and hot.
I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing.