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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.- Actor
- Writer
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Rodney Bewes was a chubby-cheeked British comedy actor, famed in his own country as one half of TV's The Likely Lads (1964). During the second half of his career, with screen roles sharply diminishing in number, he was active mostly in the theatre, including notably a one-man adaptation of "Three Men in a Boat".- Ralph P Martin is a town and country east-coaster who worked two summerstock apprenticeship seasons at The Woodstock Playhouse for M. Edgar Rosenblum, to earn his Equity card. He attended NYU School of the Arts, and crossed the country six times on the sunburnt thumb. Ralph plays 5-string banjo, and was front-man for two eclectic country-bluegrass bands, Honeywagon and Smoketown Diner Boys. His first national commercial was as the Banjo Player for Anacin Arthritis Pain Formula, which ran for three years: "I have arthritis, but it doesn't have me." RPM has appeared in scads of Off-Off Broadway shows in NYC, and 99-Seaters in LA, where he relocated in '88 at the suggestion of a famous action movie star.
- Dan Fitzgerald was born on 30 December 1928 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor, known for The Final Countdown (1980), In Her Shoes (2005) and Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach (1988). He was married to Dolores Stever. He died on 21 November 2017 in Miami, Florida, USA.
- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Peter Berling was born on 20 March 1934 in Obrawalde, Meseritz, Posen-West Prussia, Prussia, Germany [now Obrzyce, Miedzyrzecz, Lubuskie, Poland]. He was an actor and producer, known for Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), Fitzcarraldo (1982) and The Name of the Rose (1986). He died on 21 November 2017 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Producer
- Actor
- Additional Crew
George Pappas was born on 15 March 1926 in Fillmore, California, USA. He was a producer and actor, known for Heat (1986), Absolution (1978) and Farewell, My Lovely (1975). He was married to Anna Navarro. He died on 21 November 2017 in Pomona, California, USA.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Blue-eyed soul singer Wayne Cochran was born in 1939 in Thomaston, Georgia. He started his first band in 1955 and was kicked out of high school for refusing to cut his flamboyant pompadour hairstyle. Cochran recorded his debut single, "My Little Girl", for the Scottie label in 1959. He went on to record a slew of singles throughout the '60s for such labels as Gala ("Funny Feeling," "Liza Jane"), Confederate ("Linda Lu"), Aire ("Cindy Marie"), King ("Little Orphan Annie") and Mercury ("Goin' Back to Miami," which rates as one of his single most incendiary R&B songs and was later covered by The Blues Brothers).
In the early '60s he wrote and recorded the morbid teen death item "Last Kiss," which became a huge #2 Billboard pop chart hit for 'J. Frank Wilson & the Cavaliers' in 1964. In 1963 he formed his own group called Wayne Cochran and the C.C. Ryders ("Cochran's Circuit Riders"). The band amassed an enormous following in the South and Midwest by extensively touring and performing at clubs, lounges and seedy dives all over the region. Cochran was famous for his massive white pompadour, outrageous outfits and full-throttle, raw-throated hoarse-'n'-ragged vocals. The band was the immensely popular house band at the Miami (FL) club the Barn. 'Jackie Gleason' in particular was a big fan of Cochran's music and wrote the liner notes for his 1967 debut album. Cochran and the C.C. Riders appear as themselves in the biker exploitation flick C.C. & Company (1970). Moreover, Wayne not only made guest appearances on such TV programs as The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962), The Merv Griffin Show (1962), The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1956), You're in the Picture (1961), [error], Tomorrow Coast to Coast (1973) and The Mike Douglas Show (1961) but also had straight acting roles on episodes of the TV series The Wild Wild West (1965) and The Duke (1979).
Cochran eventually became a born-again Christian and started his own ministry in 1981. He and the C.C. Riders performed at two reunion shows in 2001: they did a gig on July 26 in Miami, Florida, and did a second reunion show on August 1 in Hollywood, Florida. Wayne lived in Miami, Florida with his wife Monica (who died in February, 2017). Cochran died at age 78 from cancer on November 21, 2017.- Christine Williams was born on 7 January 1945 in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Burke's Law (1963), Otto und die nackte Welle (1968) and Petticoat Junction (1963). She was married to Tom Scott and Mike Gardner. She died on 21 November 2017 in Panaca, Nevada, USA.
- Pat Lawler was born on 29 December 1929 in the USA. She was an actress, known for Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957) and The Jimmy Durante Show (1954). She died on 21 November 2017 in Oakhurst, California, USA.
- Suying Huang was born in January 1919 in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China. She was an actress, known for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Gone Is the One Who Held Me Dearest in the World (2002) and Mai tian (2009). She died on 21 November 2017 in China.
- Actress
- Writer
Iola Gregory was born in 1946 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK. She was an actress and writer, known for Cravings (2006), Coming Up Roses (1986) and Storms of August (1988). She was married to Robert Blythe. She died on 21 November 2017 in Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales, UK.- Casting Department
- Producer
Beverlee Dean was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was a producer, known for Kull the Conqueror (1997), The Man in the Moon (1991) and A Time for Miracles (1980). She died on 21 November 2017 in Tarzana, California, USA.- Bunny Stivers was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Bunny was a writer and producer, known for The Wildest West Show of the Stars (1986), Celebrity Daredevils (1983) and Circus of the Stars #13 (1988). Bunny was married to Bob Stivers, Bernerd Hendel and Bob Stivers. Bunny died on 21 November 2017 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Masao Sugiuchi was born on 20 October 1920 in Miyazaki, Japan. He was married to Hisako. He died on 21 November 2017 in Tokyo, Japan.
- Aristides Inchaustegui was born on 3 May 1938 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He died on 21 November 2017 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.