Jeremy Gelbwaks
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox person Jeremy Russell Gelbwaks (born May 22, 1961) is an American former child actor who starred in the television series The Partridge Family (1970–71).<ref name="Spin"/>
Career
Gelbwaks was born in Los Angeles, California, and was the first actor to play the role of Chris Partridge.<ref name=TVGuide>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He left the series after the first season, and was replaced by Brian Forster in the summer of 1971.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> According to his Partridge Family castmate David Cassidy, Gelbwaks "had a personality conflict with every person in the cast, and with the producers".<ref>C'mon, Get Happy Fear and Loathing on the Partridge Family Bus by David Cassidy and Chip Deffaa, 1994 DBC Enterprises, Warner Books Inc, p. 87</ref> In a 2005 interview with the Television Academy Foundation, Shirley Jones mentioned that Gelbwaks "was not happy doing [the show] ... his parents wanted him to do it, so we replaced him".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Gelbwaks retired from acting when his family moved from California to Reston, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C., where they resided for a year-and-a-half before moving again to Connecticut, and later to Potsdam, New York.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Gelbwaks graduated from Hermon Dekalb Central School (Dekalb Junction, N.Y.) in 1978 and was a member of the National Honor Society.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His father Norman taught computer science at the State University of New York at Potsdam.<ref name="Spin">Template:Cite news</ref>
Gelbwaks graduated from Potsdam College in 1983, and became a computer analyst while studying chemistry at UC Berkeley. He worked in the computer industry until 1999, studied business at Columbia University, and became a management consultant. He married Patricia Polander and moved to New Orleans, where he works as a business and technology planner.<ref name="People">Template:Cite news</ref>
References
External links
- [https://www.imdb.com/{{#if: 0312235
| name/{{#if:{{#invoke:ustring|match|1=0312235|2=^nm}}
| Template:Trim/
| nm0312235/
}}
| {{#if: {{#property:P345}}
| name/Template:First word/
| find?q=%7B%7B%23if%3A+Jeremy+Gelbwaks%0A++++++%7C+Jeremy+Gelbwaks%0A++++++%7C+%5B%5B%3ATemplate%3APAGENAMEBASE%5D%5D%0A++++++%7D%7D&s=nm
}}
}}{{#if: 0312235 {{#property:P345}} | {{#switch:
| award | awards = awards Awards for | biography | bio = bio Biography for
}}}} {{#if: Jeremy Gelbwaks
| Jeremy Gelbwaks
| Template:PAGENAMEBASE
}}] at IMDb{{#if: 0312235{{#property:P345}}
| Template:EditAtWikidata
| Template:Main other
}}{{#switch:{{#invoke:string2|matchAny|^nm.........|^nm.......|nm|.........|source=0312235|plain=false}}
| 1 | 3 = Template:Main otherTemplate:Preview warning | 4 = Template:Main otherTemplate:Preview warning
}}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:IMDb name with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|showblankpositional=1| 1 | 2 | id | name | section }}