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| home_town = West Orange, New Jersey | children = Katie Cassidy (with Sherry Williams Benedon)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Katie Cassidy: 'Dad a heartthrob? It's a bit strange' )〕 Beau Cassidy (with Sue Shifrin-Cassidy)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=David Cassidy & Wife Divorcing )〕 | parents = Jack Cassidy Evelyn Ward | family = | module = }} David Bruce Cassidy (born April 12, 1950)〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= David Cassidy Biography (1950-) )〕 is an American actor, singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is widely known for his role as Keith 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. ==Early life== Cassidy was born at Flower Fifth Avenue Hospital in New York City, 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. Some of his mother's ancestors were among the founders of Newark, New Jersey.〔 As his 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. In 1956, he found out from neighbors' children that his parents had been divorced for over two years and had not told him.〔''C'mon, Get Happy'', p. 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.〔''C'mon, Get Happy'', p. 35〕 David remained there seeking fame as an actor/musician while simultaneously working half-days in the mailroom of a textile firm.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=David Cassidy: Naked Lunch Box )〕 He moved out when his career began to flourish. Cassidy's father Jack is credited with setting his son up with his first manager. After signing with Universal Studios in 1969, Jack introduced him to former table tennis champion and close friend Ruth Aarons, who later found her niche as a talent manager, given her theater background.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Table-Tennis/USATT/Hall-of-Fame/Profiles/Ruth-Aarons.aspx )〕 Aarons had represented Jack and Shirley Jones for several years prior, and would later represent Cassidy's half-brother Shaun. Aarons became an authority figure and close friend to Cassidy, and would prove to be the fighting force behind his on-screen success. After making small wages from Screen Gems for his work on ''The Partridge Family'' during season one, Aarons discovered a loophole in his contract and renegotiated it with far superior terms, and a four-year duration, a rare stipulation at the time. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Cassidy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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