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
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 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.
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.