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
In California, of all places, entertainment is the key to a vibrant economy. If we do not develop young adults capable of entering that world, the financial base of this state is sure to suffer and impact all of us.
I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.
My life has flourished in so many ways both personally and professionally that I can't ask for a better life.
All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and distance myself from it.
When you have had the kind of fame I had, I was always hounded by the media and I lived a very isolated life. Now it's even more difficult. The world has changed dramatically.
I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some of the great talents of all time in the local area where I lived.
I look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat under my eyes. My mum looked 30 when she was 60, so I guess I owe it all to genes and hair dye.
I had a lot of very religious influences - Christian religious.
I found myself very lost after 'The Partridge Family,' and I lost my dad and I lost my manager, and I lived in a bubble, and it took me 15 years to get through that and a lot of psychotherapy, and I'm laughing about it now!
I bought my first horse when I was 15. I always loved racing and I started studying about breeding and I've been doing it now for 30 years, so I have some credibility.
Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.
As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.
I've always had a love for horses since I was really young. When I was 5 years old, the only thing that made me happy was when they'd take me out and give me pony rides.
I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers.