Jeremy Gelbwaks

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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>

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