John Joseph Edward Cassidy was an American actor and singer. He appeared in Alive and Kicking, Wish You Were Here, Shangri-La, Maggie Flynn, Fade Out – Fade In, It’s a Bird… It’s Superman, and She Loves Me, for which he won a Tony Award. He was the father of teen idols David Cassidy and Shaun Cassidy.
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John Joseph Edward Cassidy, known as \”Jack\”, was an American actor and singer. He was the father of teen idols David Cassidy and Shaun Cassidy. Cassidy achieved success as a musical performer on Broadway. He appeared in Alive and Kicking, Wish You Were Here, Shangri-La, Maggie Flynn, Fade Out – Fade In, It’s a Bird… It’s Superman, and She Loves Me, for which he won a Tony Award. 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. He 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.
Cassidy was married twice. His first marriage in 1946 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. In his 1994 autobiography, Cassidy’s eldest son David wrote that he became increasingly concerned about his father in the last years of his life.
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