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David Cassidy Amsterdam 1972 David Bruce Cassidy (born April 12, 1950)[1] is an American actor, singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is widely known for his role as Keith Partridge, the son of Shirley Partridge (played by his stepmother Shirley Jones), 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.
David Cassidy was born at Flower Fifth Avenue Hospital in New York City, in 1950, the son of singer and actor Jack Cassidy and actress Evelyn Ward. His father was of half-Irish and half-German ancestry, and his mother was of mostly Colonial American descent, along with smaller amounts of Irish and Swiss.[2] Some of his mother’s ancestors were among the founders of Newark, New Jersey.[2]
David Cassidy parents were frequently touring on the road, he spent his early years being raised by his maternal grandparents in a middle-class neighborhood in West Orange, New Jersey.[3] In 1956, he found out from neighbors’ children that his parents had been divorced for over two years and had not told him.[4] David’s parents had decided because he was at such a young age, it would be better for his emotional stability to not discuss it at that time. They were gone often with theater productions and home life remained the same.
In 1956, his father married singer and actress, Shirley Jones, and three half-brothers were born: Shaun (1958), Patrick (1962) and Ryan (1966). In 1968, after completing one final session of summer school to obtain credits necessary to get a high school diploma, David moved into the rental home of Jack Cassidy and Shirley Jones in Irvington, New York, where his half-brothers also resided.[5] David remained there seeking fame as an actor/musician while simultaneously….David Cassidy
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