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Jack Cassidy is a Actor American born on 5 march 1927

Jack Cassidy

Jack Cassidy
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Birth name John Joseph Edward Cassidy
Nationality USA
Birth 5 march 1927
Death 12 december 1976 (at 49 years) at Hollywood (USA)

John Joseph Edward “Jack” Cassidy (March 5, 1927 – December 12, 1976) was an American singer and actor of stage, film, and television.

Biography

Marriages and children

Cassidy was married twice. His first wife was actress Evelyn Ward. Together they had a son, David, who later became a teen idol. After divorcing in 1956, 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. Jones and Cassidy divorced in 1974.


Mental issues
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. Cassidy suffered from bipolar disorder and was an alcoholic, who 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. Cassidy's second wife Shirley Jones described a similar incident when she found him sitting naked in a corner, 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". In December 1974, Cassidy was hospitalized in a psychiatric facility for 48 hours. At that time, Jones found out that he had been previously diagnosed with bipolar disorder.


Sexuality
David Cassidy claimed that his father was bisexual, citing attributed personal accounts and reports, both anecdotal and published, of his father's same-sex affairs, a fact neither he nor his siblings discovered until after his death. In her 2013 memoir, Shirley Jones confirms that Cassidy had many same-sex affairs, including one with Cole Porter.

Usually with

Stan Winston
Stan Winston
(2 films)
Andrew Duggan
Andrew Duggan
(3 films)
John Marley
John Marley
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Jack Cassidy (12 films)

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Actor

Self Helpless, 1h21
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Patrick Cassidy, Jack Cassidy
Roles Candy's Dad
Rating52% 2.62122.62122.62122.62122.6212
Simon, John Candy, Felix, and The Drake are friends who are generally unhappy with their lot in life. Simon is a troubled, unsuccessful birthday party magician. John Candy is a DJ at a local dive bar. Felix is miserable in his position as a lawyer at a local law firm. The Drake lives with his unpleasant girlfriend and works at a landscaping company.
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover, 1h52
Directed by Larry Cohen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Actors Broderick Crawford, Michael Parks, José Ferrer, Rip Torn, Celeste Holm, Ronee Blakley
Roles Damon Runyon
Rating60% 3.0446653.0446653.0446653.0446653.044665
The film is a chronicle of forty years in the life of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, starting first in the time of Prohibition, as he enforced the law on bootlegging and organized crime. Later, the director comes up against the Red Scare of the 1950s, the Kennedys, the wave of change in the 1960s, and his hatred of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Examined here is the allegation that he had an 'abnormal' sexual life, along with his obsession with his dead mother.
W.C. Fields and Me, 1h51
Directed by Arthur Hiller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Actors Rod Steiger, Jack Cassidy, Valerie Perrine, Billy Barty, John Marley, Bernadette Peters
Roles John Barrymore
Rating61% 3.050923.050923.050923.050923.05092
The story begins in 1924 in New York City, where W.C. Fields is a Ziegfeld Follies headliner, and ends with his 1946 death in California at age 66. In between, it dramatizes his life and career with emphasis on the latter part of both, when the "Me" of the title, Carlotta Monti, played a prominent role, with a number of fictionalized events added for dramatic impact.
W.C. Fields and Me, 1h51
Directed by Arthur Hiller
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Paul Stewart, Rod Steiger, Valerie Perrine, Jack Cassidy, Billy Barty, John Marley
Roles John Barrymore
Rating61% 3.050923.050923.050923.050923.05092
L'histoire commence en 1924 à New York où W. C. Fields participe aux Ziegfeld Follies, et se déroule jusqu'en 1946 avec sa mort en Californie.
The Eiger Sanction, 2h3
Directed by Clint Eastwood, James Fargo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Sports films, Alpinisme
Actors Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Jack Cassidy, Vonetta McGee, Thayer David, Gregory Walcott
Roles Miles Mellough
Rating63% 3.197473.197473.197473.197473.19747
College art history professor Dr. Jonathan Hemlock (Clint Eastwood) is a retired government assassin who performed "sanctions", a euphemism for officially approved killings. He also has a reputation as one of the world's top mountaineers.
The Phantom of Hollywood, 1h14
Directed by Gene Levitt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Jack Cassidy, Peter Lawford, Jackie Coogan, Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Corinne Calvet
Roles Otto Vonner / Karl Vonner
Rating56% 2.8082952.8082952.8082952.8082952.808295
Murders taking place on the back lot of Worldwide Studios turn out to be the work of a disfigured actor who has been living there for years and will stop at nothing to cease the sale of the back lot to developers. The film seems to place a lot of emphasis on the chalk outline and one character is even heard to quip, "We're going to be running out of chalk," while standing over a murder scene in a dry pool on the set.
Bunny O'Hare, 1h31
Directed by Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Cassidy, John Astin, Jay Robinson, Reva Rose
Roles Lieutenant Horace Greeley
Rating56% 2.802922.802922.802922.802922.80292
The title character, a widow whose savings have been depleted by her selfish, middle-aged children, Lulu and Ad, finds herself homeless when the bank forecloses on her mortgage. She becomes friendly with Bill Green, an aging itinerant salvaging the house's plumbing, who she soon discovers is really fugitive bank robber William Gruenwald. Hoping to recoup her losses from the bank that took her home, Bunny blackmails Bill into teaching her how to rob the institution in exchange for keeping his identity a secret. She wears a long blonde wig, over-sized hat, and sunglasses, while he dons a fake beard, leather vest, and bell-bottom pants, and the two pull off the caper and escape on a 250cc Triumph TRW Trophy motorcycle. Buoyed by their success, Bunny convinces Bill to join her in more heists, and the different modus operandi they use - setting free a canary to distract the guard, setting off smoke bombs - make it difficult for police lieutenant Horace Greeley and criminologist R.J. Hart to profile their suspects.
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County, 1h39
Directed by Ranald MacDougall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Romance, Western
Actors Dan Blocker, Nanette Fabray, Jim Backus, Wally Cox, Jack Elam, Henry Jones
Roles Roger Hand
Rating61% 3.0986053.0986053.0986053.0986053.098605
In the film, a simple-minded blacksmith named Charley, loved by the townsfolk, saves for a year to send off for a mail-order bride. However, when Charley, accompanied by many of the townsfolk, gather at the train station to greet the woman on her scheduled arrival date, Charley is publicly embarrassed when she fails to appear. Realizing that he has been suckered out of his savings and feeling like a fool, Charley plans to leave the town for good. This would not be an issue, except that Charley is the town’s only blacksmith and no one else is available to replace him.
FBI Code 98, 1h44
Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Jack Kelly, William Reynolds, Ray Danton, Merry Anders, Andrew Duggan, Philip Carey
Roles Walter Macklin
Rating58% 2.914872.914872.914872.914872.91487
The president of an electronics company, Alan Nichols (Andrew Duggan), and his two vice presidents, Robert Cannon (Jack Kelly) and Fred Vitale (Ray Danton), are required at Cape Canaveral to oversee the test launching of a missile which their company developed. But before they are able to board the plane to take them there one of their suitcases is switched for one containing a bomb. Cannon opens his luggage when the men are in mid air and discovers the bomb, and his colleague Vitale manages to disarm it. The FBI is called in to determine whether this is a case of attempting to murder Cannon, whose suitcase contained the bomb, or an attempt to sabotage the air plane.
Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol, 53minutes
Directed by Abe Levitow
Genres Comedy, Musical, Animation
Themes Christmas films, Time travel films, Ghost films
Actors Jim Backus, Morey Amsterdam, Jack Cassidy, Royal Dano, Paul Frees, Joan Gardner
Roles Bob Cratchit (voice)
Rating75% 3.7876053.7876053.7876053.7876053.787605
A l'occasion d'une représentation du "Conte de Noêl" sur la scène de Broadway, Monsieur Magoo endosse le rôle du détestable Mr Scrooge. Le fantôme de son vieil associé vient le hanter pour qu'il comprenne qu'il est encore temps de changer. Il lui annonce la venue de trois esprits pour la veille de Noël, chargés de lui faire prendre conscience de l'importance d'ouvrir son cœur (et son porte-feuilles...)
The Chapman Report, 2h5
Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Shelley Winters, Jane Fonda, Claire Bloom, Ty Hardin, Glynis Johns, Efrem Zimbalist II
Roles Ted Dyson
Rating55% 2.753562.753562.753562.753562.75356
Los Angeles psychologist Chapman (Andrew Duggan) and his assistant Paul Radford (Efrem Zimbalist Jr) are looking for volunteers for their sex survey, and four women volunteer: Sarah Garnell (Shelley Winters), a middle-aged woman who is having an affair with young theater director Fred Linden (Ray Danton); Teresa Harnish (Glynis Johns), a happily married woman who becomes attracted to brawny football player Ed Kraski (Ty Hardin); Naomi Shields (Claire Bloom), an alcoholic nymphomaniac who takes up with an unsavory jazz musician; and Kathleen Barclay (Jane Fonda), a young widow who thinks she is frigid.
The Mad Monster, 1h17
Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Films about music and musicians, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film, Musical films
Actors Johnny Downs, George Zucco, Anne Nagel, Reginald Barlow, Glenn Strange, Gordon De Main
Rating35% 1.760091.760091.760091.760091.76009
The plot involves a scientist who has been discredited by his peers. He attempts to kill them off after he develops a secret formula that transforms his gardener into a murderous wolfman.