Jeremy Gelbwaks | |
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 Jeremy Gelbwaks, c. 1970 | |
| Born | Jeremy Russell Gelbwaks May 22, 1961 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1970–1971 |
Jeremy Russell Gelbwaks (born May 22, 1961, in Los Angeles) is an American former child actor who starred in the television series The Partridge Family (1970–71).[1]
Gelbwaks was the first actor to play the role of Chris Partridge.[2] He left the series after the first season, and was replaced by Brian Forster in the summer of 1971.[3] According to his Partridge Family castmate David Cassidy, Gelbwaks "had a personality conflict with every person in the cast, and with the producers".[4] 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".[5]
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.[6] Gelbwaks graduated from Hermon Dekalb Central School (Hermon, NY) in 1978 and was a member of the National Honor Society.[7] His father Norman taught computer science at the State University of New York at Potsdam.[1]
Gelbwaks graduated from college in 1982, 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.[8]
