Former child star who appeared on hit 70s sitcom The Partridge Family is spotted on rare outing in New Orleans… can you guess who he is?
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This actor, who landed his big break at age 10, was spotted on a rare public outing this week.
The former child star famously appeared on the beloved television series The Partridge Family nearly six decades ago.
He was on the show for less than a year in 1970 and, at the time, he was just 10 years old.
Now 65, he now works as a technology planner and lives in Louisiana after his brief stint on the ABC musical sitcom of the 1970s.
He kept a low-key profile as he was spotted running errands in New Orleans.
Can you guess who he is?
This actor, who landed his big break at age 10, was spotted on a rare public outing this week
The former child star famously appeared on the beloved television series The Partridge Family nearly six decades ago. Can you guess who he is?
He’s Jeremy Gelbwaks of The Partridge Family fame.
He played one of the onscreen sons of leading star Shirley Jones for just the first season of the sitcom.
The show, which was created by Bernard Slade, followed a widowed mother and her five children who form a pop rock band.
The series was loosely inspired by the real-life musical family band The Cowsills.
Gelbwaks later withdrew from the role and Brian Forster took over as Chris Partridge starting in season two.
The musical sitcom aired on ABC for four seasons before the final episode was released in March 1974.
His former costar David Cassidy claimed the preteen child actor ‘had a personality conflict with every person in the cast, and with the producers.’
In Cassidy’s 1994 memoir C’mon, Get Happy, he recalled Gelbwaks, who played his onscreen brother Chris, being ‘hyperactive’ and playing around on set.
He’s Jeremy Gelbwaks of The Partridge Family fame. He played one of the onscreen sons of leading star Shirley Jones for the first season of the sitcom
He appeared on the show for less than a year in 1970 and, at the time, he was just 10 years old
The show, which was created by Bernard Slade, followed a widowed mother and her five children who form a pop rock band. Gelbwaks left the show at the end of the first season when his parents decided to move
Now 65, he now works as a technology planner and lives in Louisiana after his brief stint on the ABC musical sitcom of the 1970s
He rocked a casual ensemble while running errands
He was later seen driving off in a white car
Gelbwaks left the show at the end of the first season when his parents decided to move.
As such, he later stopped acting when his family relocated from California to a suburb of Washington, DC then Connecticut before settling down in Potsdam, New York.
His father taught computer science at the State University of New York at Potsdam.
And Gelbwaks went on to follow in his father’s shoes, studying and working in the same field. He stayed away from the spotlight since his brief stint as a child actor in the 70s.
Gelbwaks has studied at and graduated from Potsdam College, UC Berkeley and Columbia University.
In addition to having a once-child actor on his resume, he worked as a computer analyst through his 20s and 30s before becoming a management consultant.
He married Patricia Polander, and the newlyweds moved to New Orleans, where he works as a technology planner.