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John Joseph Edward Cassidy, known as Jack Cassidy (March 5, 1927 – December 12, 1976), was an American actor, singer and theatre director known for his work in the theatre, television and films. He received multiple Tony Award nominations and a win, as well as a Grammy Award, for his work on the Broadway production of the musical She Loves Me. He also received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He was the father of teen idols David Cassidy and Shaun Cassidy.

Jack Cassidy
Cassidy, c. 1967
Born	John Joseph Edward Cassidy (1927-03-05)March 5, 1927 New York City, U.S.
Died	December 12, 1976(1976-12-12) (aged 49) West Hollywood, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor singer theatre director
Years active	1943–1976
Spouses	Evelyn Ward ​ ​ (m. 1948; div. 1956)​ Shirley Jones ​ ​ (m. 1956; div. 1975)​
Children	4; including David, Shaun, Patrick
Relatives	Katie Cassidy (granddaughter)
Awards	Tony Award, Grammy Award (1964, She Loves Me)

Early life

He was born in New York, New York, the son of Charlotte (née Koehler) and William Cassidy. He was the youngest of five children. His father, an engineer at the Long Island Rail Road, was of Irish descent and his mother was of German ancestry.[1]

Career

Cassidy achieved success as a musical performer on Broadway.[2] He appeared in Alive and Kicking, Wish You Were Here, Shangri-La, Maggie Flynn, Fade Out – Fade In, It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman, and She Loves Me, for which he won a Tony Award. He also received Emmy Award nominations for his television performances in the 1967-68 CBS Television Network series He & She and The Andersonville Trial.[3]

On television, he became a frequent guest star, appearing in such programs as The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Gunsmoke, Bewitched, Get Smart, That Girl, Hawaii Five-O, Cannon, Match Game and McCloud and three times as a murderer on Columbo, in the episodes "Murder By the Book" (1971, directed by not yet famous Steven Spielberg, with teleplay by a young Steven Bochco), "Publish or Perish" (1974) and "Now You See Him..." (1976). Cassidy also appeared on Barnaby Jones in an episode titled "Murder in the Doll's House" (1973).[3]

He co-starred with Ronnie Schell in a television revival of Hellzapoppin'. Cassidy also co-starred as an informer in the movie The Eiger Sanction with Clint Eastwood and provided the voice of Bob Cratchit for the pioneering animated television special Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol.[3]

His frequent professional persona was an urbane, witty, confident egotist with a dramatic flair, much in the manner of Broadway actor Frank Fay. Cassidy perfected this character to the extent that he was cast as John Barrymore in the feature film W.C. Fields and Me.^{[citation needed]}

The role of the vain, shallow, buffoon-like newsman Ted Baxter on TV's The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977) was reportedly written with Cassidy in mind.[4] Cassidy had played a similar buffoonish character in the 1967–1968 sitcom He & She, but he turned down the role, feeling that it was not right for him; the part went to Ted Knight. Cassidy later appeared as a guest star in a 1971 episode[5] as Ted's highly competitive and equally egotistical brother Hal.[3]

Personal life

Marriages and children

Cassidy was married twice. His first marriage in 1948 was to actress Evelyn Ward. Together they had a son, David, who later became a teen idol. They divorced in 1956 and in the same year Cassidy married singer and actress Shirley Jones. Cassidy and Jones had three sons, Shaun, Patrick, and Ryan. Cassidy's eldest son David later starred with Jones in the musical sitcom The Partridge Family. Son Shaun also became a teen idol in the late 1970s, starring in The Hardy Boys series, and producing four top-40 records. Jones and Cassidy divorced in 1975.[6]

Mental health

In his 1994 autobiography, C'Mon, Get Happy, Cassidy's eldest son David wrote that he became increasingly concerned about his father in the last years of his life. The elder Cassidy, who suffered from bipolar disorder and alcoholism, was displaying increasingly erratic behavior. In 1974, his neighbors were shocked to see him watering his front lawn naked in the middle of the afternoon.[7] Cassidy's second wife, Shirley Jones, described a similar incident when she found him sitting naked in a corner of their house, reading a book. Jones said to him that they had to get ready to do a show, and he calmly looked up and said, "I know now that I'm Christ".[8] In December 1974, Cassidy was hospitalized in a psychiatric facility for 48 hours.[9] At that time, Jones found out that he had been previously diagnosed with bipolar disorder.[10]

Sexuality

David Cassidy said his father was bisexual, citing personal accounts and reports, both anecdotal and published, of his father's same-sex affairs, something neither he nor his siblings knew until after their father's death.[11] In her 2013 memoir, Shirley Jones wrote that Cassidy had many same-sex affairs, including one with Cole Porter.[12]

Death

On December 11, 1976, Cassidy invited his ex-wife, Shirley Jones, to his home, an apartment in West Hollywood, California, for drinks, but she declined.[13]

In the early morning of December 12, 1976, Cassidy lit a cigarette and fell asleep on his Naugahyde couch.[14] Asleep, he dropped the cigarette, igniting the couch. The flames spread throughout the apartment and building.[6] At 6:15 a.m., the blaze was discovered by Deputy Sheriff John DiMatteo, who evacuated the building, and entered Cassidy's apartment. A body was found near the front door of the apartment among the ashes, and was identified as Cassidy's[15] by dental records[16] and a signet ring that he wore, bearing the Cassidy family crest.[1][17] His remains were cremated and scattered in the Pacific Ocean.[18]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1961	Look in Any Window	Gareth Lowell
1962	The Chapman Report	Ted Dyson
1970	The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County	Roger Hand
1971	Bunny O'Hare	Lieutenant Greeley
1975	The Eiger Sanction	Miles Mellough
1976	W.C. Fields and Me	John Barrymore
1977	The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover	Damon Runyon

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1957	The United States Steel Hour	Performer	Episode: Shadow of Evil
1957	Lux Video Theatre	Denis/Dr. Steele	2 episodes
1958	Richard Diamond, Private Detective	Danny Fortune	Episode: The Percentage Takers
1958	Gunsmoke	Marcus France	Episode: The Gentleman
1960	The Chevy Mystery Show	David Townsend	Episode: Femme Fatale
1961	Hawaiian Eye	Maurice Clifford	Episode: Concert in Hawaii
1961	Maverick	Roger Cushman	Episode: The Art Lovers
1961	Alfred Hitchcock Presents'	Mark Lansing	Episode: The Pearl Necklace
1961	General Electric Theater	Alan Richards	Episode: Sis Bowls 'Em Over
1961	Lock-Up	Vincent Gibson	Episode: Two Wrongs
1961	Wagon Train	Dan Palmer	Episode: The Nancy Palmer Story
1962	Surfside 6	Val Morton	Episode: Who is Sylvia?
1962	Everglades	Ron Fairburn	Episode: Black Honeymoon
1962	FBI Code 98	Walter Macklin	Episode: Television Movie
1962	77 Sunset Strip	Dick Arnador	Episode: The Bridal Trail Caper
1961–62	Bronco	Edward Miller	2 episodes
1962	The Dick Powell Show	Roth	Episode: The Big Day
1962	Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol	Bob Cratchit (voice)	Television Movie
1962	Hennesey	Chaplain	Episode: I Thee Wed
1963	The Wide Country	Jerry Manning	Episode: The Judas Ghost
1964	Mr. Broadway	Allan	Episode: The He-She Chemistry
1964	Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo	voice	Television Movie
1965	The Lucy Show	Prof. Zoorkin	Episode: Lucy and the Undercover Agent
1965	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	Arthur Mannix	Episode: The Photographer and the Undertaker
1967–68	He & She	Oscar North	26 episodes
1967	Coronet Blue	Spangler	Episode: A Charade for Murder
1967	The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.	Rock Mussin	Episode: The Carpathian Caper Affair
1967	I Spy	Nick Fleming	Episode: The Trouble with Temple
1968	Get Smart	Mr. Bob	Episode: The Return of the Ancient Mariner
1968–70	Bewitched	Various Roles	2 episodes
1969	That Girl	Marty Hines	Episodes: She didn't have the Vegas notion parts 1 & 2
1970	The Governor & J.J.	Mark Ellison	Episode: The Making of the Governor
1970	Matt Lincoln	Doug Conway	Episode: Nina
1970	George M!	Jeremiah "Jerry" Cohan	Television Movie
1970	The Andersonville Trial	Otis Baker	Television Movie
1970–72	Love, American Style	Performer	3 episodes
1971	Sarge	John Michael O'Flaherty	Episode: The Eleven O'Clock War
1971	Bonanza	Kevin O'Casey	Episode: Cassie
1971	The Mary Tyler Moore Show	Hal Baxter	Episode: Cover Boy
1971	Alias Smith and Jones	Harry Wagener	Episode: How to Rob a Bank in One Hard Lesson
1971	Columbo	Ken Franklin	Episode: Murder by the Book
1971	The Powder Room	Performer	Television Movie
1971	Night Gallery	Marius Davis	Segment: The Last Laurel
1971	The Mod Squad	Perry Lerriko	Episode: Kicks Incorporated
1972	Mission: Impossible	Orin Kerr	Episode: Casino
1972	Your Money or Your Wife	Josh Darwin	Television Movie
1972	Banyon	Grey Gloves	Episode: Dead End
1973	Orson Welles Great Mysteries	Pennington	Episode: For Sale - Silence
1973	Barnaby Jones	Craig Woodridge	Episode: Murder in the Doll's House
1973	A Time for Love	Tom Pierson	Television Movie
1974	Fools, Female and Fun	Danny Holliday	Television Movie
1974	The Phantom of Hollywood	Otto Vonner/Karl Vonner	Television Movie
1974	Great Performances	Paul Sears	Episode: June Moon
1974	Columbo	Riley Greenleaf	Episode: Publish or Perish
1974	Cannon	General James O'Hara	Episode: Photo Finish
1975	Hawaii Five-O	Orrin Morwood	Episode: How to Steal a Submarine
1975	Matt Helm	Buckman	Episode: Murder on Ice
1975	Knuckle	Patrick Delafield	Television Movie
1975	Death Among Friends	Chico Donovan	Television Movie
1976	Columbo	The Great Santini	Episode: Now You See Him...
1977	McCloud	Lord Charles Bridges	Episode: London Bridges
1977	Benny and Barney: Las Vegas Undercover	Jules Rosen	Television Movie
1977	The Feather and Father Gang	Bishop	Episode: The Judas Bug

Stage

Source: Playbill Vault [2]

Broadway

Year	Title	Role	Venue
1943	Something for the Boys	chorus	Alvin Theatre
1944	Sadie Thompson	chorus
1946	Around the World	chorus	Adelphi Theatre
1947	Music in My Heart	chorus
1948	Small Wonder	ensemble	Coronet Theatre
1948	Inside U.S.A.	chorus	Majestic Theatre
1949	Theater '49	ensemble	General Artists Corporation NYC
1952	South Pacific	Richard West	Majestic Theatre
1952	Wish You Were Here	Chick Miller	Imperial Theatre
1954	Sandhog	Johnny O'Sullivan	Phoenix Theatre
1956	Shangri-La	Charles Mallinson	Winter Garden Theatre
1957	The Beggar's Opera	MacHeath	New York City Center
1963	She Loves Me	Steven Kodaly	Eugene O'Neill Theatre
1964	Fade Out – Fade In	Byron Prong	Mark Hellinger Theatre
1966	It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman	Max Mencken	Alvin Theatre
1968	Maggie Flynn	Phineas Flynn	ANTA Theatre
1969	The Mundy Scheme	Mick Moloney	Royale Theatre
1973	Sondheim: A Musical Tribute	Performer	Concert, Shubert Theater
1975	Murder Among Friends	Palmer Forrester	Biltmore Theatre

Elsewhere

Year	Title	Role	Venue
1956	Oklahoma!	Curly	European tour
1958	Wonderful Town	Robert Baker	Brussels World's Fair, Belgium
			London, United Kingdom
1959	Wish You Were Here	Chick Miller	Dallas, Texas
1959	Epitaph for George Dillon	George Dillon	Los Angeles, California
1962	Gypsy	Herbie	Dallas, Texas
1965	Mary, Mary	Dirk Winsten	National tour
1965	Camelot	Lancelot	National tour
1967	Wait Until Dark	Roat	National tour
1972	The Marriage Band	Performer	Las Vegas, Nevada; National tour

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1964	Grammy Awards	Best Musical Theater Album	She Loves Me	Won	[19]
1964	Tony Awards	Best Featured Actor in a Musical		Won	[20]
1965			Fade Out - Fade In	Nominated
1966		Best Actor in Musical	It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman	Nominated
1969			Maggie Flynn	Nominated
1968	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy	He & She	Nominated	[19]
1971		Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series	The Andersonville Trial	Nominated

Discography

Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy albums

• Speaking of Love (1957) Columbia Records
• Brigadoon (1957) Columbia Records
• With Love from Hollywood (1958) Columbia
• Marriage Type Love (1959) RCA Records[21]
• Maggie Flynn (1968) RCA Records
• Showtunes (1995) Sony Music Entertainment
• Essential Masters (2011) Master Classics Records
• Marriage Type Love (2014) Columbia Masterworks Records[21]

Guest appearances

• Free to Be... You and Me (1972) Bell Records (song: "Girl Land" with Shirley Jones)

References

External links

• Jack Cassidy at the Internet Broadway Database
• Jack Cassidy at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Jack Cassidy at IMDb

На других языках

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[de] Jack Cassidy

John Joseph Edward „Jack“ Cassidy (* 5. März 1927 in Richmond Hill, Queens, New York City, New York; † 12. Dezember 1976 in Hollywood, Kalifornien) war ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler und Sänger. Er war ein gefeierter Bühnenstar am New Yorker Broadway und trat auch im Fernsehen auf.

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- [en] Jack Cassidy

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[es] Jack Cassidy

Jack Cassidy (5 de marzo de 1927 – 12 de diciembre de 1976) fue un actor teatral, cinematográfico y televisivo estadounidense.

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[ru] Кэссиди, Джек

Джек Кэссиди (англ. Jack Cassidy; настоящее имя — Джон Джозеф Эдвард Кэссиди; 5 марта 1927, Куинс, Нью-Йорк, США — 12 декабря 1976, Западный Голливуд, Калифорния, США) — американский певец и актёр театра, кино и телевидения.

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