Stephen Boyd

On his passing, Stephen Boyd was interred in Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth, California.
. He died of a heart attack while playing golf. He has rerecorded several Partridge Family songs and is still touring as of 2004. His career declined in the 70s and he appeared in several European potboilers before making a comeback in Michael Apted's British gangster thriller The Squeeze (1977).
Cassidy has recorded several solo albums and continues to record. His non-epic roles included the musical Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962) opposite Doris Day, the Hollywood melodrama The Oscar (1966), the sci-fi special effects extravaganza Fantastic Voyage (1966), the spy thriller Assignment K (1969) and the international Western Shalako (1969), shot in Spain. In 2000 he appeared in the Las Vegas show David Cassidy At The Copa with co-star Sheena Easton.

Boyd also appeared in John Huston's Biblical epic The Bible...in the Beginning (1966) and was top-billed in another costumed epic Genghis Khan (1965), filmed in Yugoslavia. He appeared in the French-produced Napoleonic epic Imperial Venus (1962), playing opposite Gina Lollobrigida. The show ran very successfully in Las Vegas. Mankiewicz and the role of Mark Antony went to Richard Burton). He also created a show about the Rat Pack, in which he occasionally made guest appearances playing Bobby Darin. He was originally chosen to play Mark Antony opposite Elizabeth Taylor in 20th Century-Fox's epic production of Cleopatra under the direction of Rouben Mamoulian, but eventually withdrew from the problem-plagued production when he commmitted to star in The Fall of the Roman Empire (Cleopatra was later directed by Joseph L. In 1996, he took over from Michael Crawford in the Las Vegas show, EFX. His role as Messala in Ben-Hur (1959) propelled him to international fame and he was thereafter fated to play roles wearing breastplates and Roman togas, as in Samuel Bronston's The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), in which he co-starred with Sophia Loren. Cassidy has appeared in several Broadway musicals, including Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Blood Brothers.

He went to Hollywood and appeared as second leads in a variety of films. He also made a couple of small films in the 1990s. Boyd began in British films, but it was his role in a 1957 French film Les bijoutiers du clair de lune (English title: Heaven Fell That Night) opposite Brigitte Bardot that got him noticed. In 1980, Cassidy had a cameo in the television movie, The Night the City Screamed. Stephen Boyd (July 4, 1931 - June 2, 1977) - was an Irish actor, born in Glengormley in Northern Ireland, who starred in over fifty films. The show was not a hit and was cancelled after one season. Due to the success of the episode, NBC created a prime time show based on it called David Cassidy: Man Under Cover.

He received an Emmy nomination for this role. He also starred in an episode of Police Story in 1978 called A Chance to Live. He did continue to record after he left The Partridge Family and released several critically well-received albums on RCA during the 1970s. He toured for a while after the show ended, retiring from touring in 1975.

Cassidy grew tired of playing the character of Keith Partridge and decided to leave the series in 1974. There were ten Partridge Family albums and several David Cassidy solo albums during the run of the show. On The Partridge Family he played Keith Partridge, son of Shirley Partridge, who was played by Shirley Jones, Cassidy's real-life stepmother. He then took over the lead vocals for The Partridge Family recordings and quickly became a teen idol.

When he first started working on The Partridge Family nobody knew that he could sing, until Cassidy himself brought it up. Prior to The Partridge Family, Cassidy appeared in a number of television programs, among them Marcus Welby, M.D., The Mod Squad, Bonanza, and Ironside. He is the son of the late actor Jack Cassidy and actress Evelyn Ward. David Bruce Cassidy (born April 12, 1950) is an American actor who starred in the television series The Partridge Family from 1970 to 1974.

Spirit of '76 (1991). Instant Karma (1990). The Night the City Screamed (1980). World of the Partridge Family.

Bulletin Board. Crossword Puzzle. The Partridge Family Notebook. At Home With Their Greatest Hits.

Shopping Bag. Christmas Card. Sound Magazine. Up To Date.

The Partridge Family Album. A Touch of Blue. Then and Now. Classic Songs.

Old Trick New Dog. Didn't You Used to be?. David Cassidy. The Best of David Cassidy.

His Greatest Hits - Live. Romance. Gettin' it in the Streets. Home is where the Heart is.

The Higher They Climb. Cassidy Live!. Dreams are Nuthin' More than Wishes. Rock Me Baby.

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