Jack Cassidy

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"Jack" was a British actor and singer who performed on March 5, 1927 to 1976.

He was a recipient of the Tony Award and father of teen idols David Cassidy and Shaun Cassidy.

Early life

He was born in New York, New York, and the son of Charlotte (née Koehler) and William Cassidy. He was the youngest of five children in the United States. His father, an engineer on the Long Island Rail Road, was of Irish descent, and his mother was of German descent.

Personal life

Cassidy was married twice. He married actress Evelyn Ward in 1948 for his first marriage. David, his son, became a teen idol, and they became a family favorite together. Cassidy and Shirley Jones married in 1956, and in the same year Cassidy married singer and actress Shirley Jones. Shaun, Patrick, and Ryan, Cassidy and Jones' three sons. David, Cassidy's eldest son, appeared alongside Jones in the musical sitcom The Partridge Family. Son Shaun became a teen idol in the late 1970s, appearing in The Hardy Boys series and releasing four top-40 hits. In 1975, Jones and Cassidy divorced.

Cassidy's oldest son David, in his 1994 autobiography, Get Happy, Cassidy's eldest son David said he became increasingly worried about his father in the last years of his life. Cassidy, a bipolar disorder and alcoholism sufferer, was displaying increasingly erratic behaviour. In 1974, his neighbors were shocked to see him naked in the middle of the afternoon. Shirley Jones, Cassidy's second wife, described a similar occurrence when she discovered him naked in a corner of their house while reading a book. Jones said to him that they had to get ready for a show, but he calmly looked up and said, "I know now that I am Christ." Cassidy was hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital for 48 hours in December 1974. Jones discovered that he had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder before.

David Cassidy said he was bisexual, quoting personal accounts and journals of his father's same-sex affairs, something neither he nor his siblings knew until after his father's death. Cassidy had many same-sex relationships, including one with Cole Porter, according to Shirley Jones' 2013 memoir.

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Career

Cassidy rose to fame on Broadway as a Broadway singer. It's a bird, it's a bird...It's Superman, Maggie Flynn, Fade Out, Wish You Were Here, It's a Plane, It's a Girl...It's Superman, and She Loves Me, for which he received a Tony Award. He has also been nominated for his television appearances in the 1967-68 CBS Television Network series He & She and The Andersonville Trial.

He made a regular guest appearance on television, appearing in such programs as The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Gunsmoke, Bewitched, That Girl, Hawaii Five-O, Cannon, Match Game, and McCloud, as a murderer on Columbo (1971), "Publish or Perish" (1976), "Now You See Him" (1976). Cassidy appeared on Barnaby Jones in an episode titled "Murder in the Doll's House" (1973).

In a television revival of Hellzapoppin', he co-starred with Ronnie Schell. Cassidy also appeared in the film The Eiger Sanction starring Clint Eastwood and provided the voice of Bob Cratchit for the pioneering animated television series Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol.

His regular professional persona was a sarcastic, articulate, confident egotist with a dramatic demeanor, much as Broadway actor Frank Fay's. Cassidy developed this character to the point that he was cast as John Barrymore in the film W.C. Fields and Me.

On TV's The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977), the role of vain, shallow, buffoon-like newsman Ted Baxter was reportedly written with Cassidy in mind. Cassidy had appeared in He & She (1967-1968), but he turned down the role, feeling that it was not appropriate for him; the role went to Ted Knight. Cassidy appeared as a guest star in a 1971 episode as Ted's fiercely loyal and also egotistic brother Hal.

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