Editing Jeremy Gelbwaks

{{short description|American actor (b. 1961)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2012}}
{{Infobox person
| name         = Jeremy Gelbwaks
| image        = The Partridge Family Jeremy Gelbwaks 1970.jpg
| imagesize    = 180px
| caption      = Gelbwaks, c. 1970
| birth_name   = Jeremy Russell Gelbwaks
| birth_date   = {{Birth date and age|1961|5|22}}
| birth_place  = [[Los Angeles, California]], U.S.
| years_active = 1970–1971
| occupation   = Actor
}}
'''Jeremy Russell Gelbwaks''' (born May 22, 1961) is an American former child actor who starred in the television series ''[[The Partridge Family]]'' (1970&ndash;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>{{cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/jeremy-gelbwaks/credits/190145/|title=Jeremy Gelbwaks| website=TVGuide.com|publisher=[[TV Guide]]|access-date=11 December 2019}}</ref>  He left the series after the first season, and was replaced by [[Brian Forster]] in the summer of 1971.<ref>{{cite book | title=The Partridge family album | publisher=HarperPerennial | author=Joey Green | year=1994 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/partridgefamilya00gree/page/35 35, 74] | isbn=978-0-06-095075-0 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/partridgefamilya00gree/page/35 }}</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>{{Cite web|url=https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/interviews/shirley-jones#interview-clips|title=Shirley Jones|date=October 22, 2017}}</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>{{cite web | url=http://nyheritage.nnyln.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/sunypotsdam/id/11085/rec/91 | title=Recent College Transitions Conference a Success &#124; Northern New York Library Network }}</ref> Gelbwaks graduated from Hermon Dekalb Central School (Dekalb Junction, N.Y.) in 1978 and was a member of the National Honor Society.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://nyheritage.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/sllboces/id/116879/rec/1 | title=Demon_1978_039 }}</ref>  His father Norman taught computer science at the [[State University of New York at Potsdam]].<ref name="Spin">{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b9_qs_-pof8C&q=%22Jeremy+Gelbwaks%22&pg=PA68 | title=The Partridge Family Tree | work=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] | date=September 1990 | accessdate=August 20, 2011 | author=Lauren Spencer | pages=67, 68}}</ref>

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.<ref name="People">{{cite news | url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20106624,00.html | title=By the Way...Whatever Happened to the Other Partridge Kids? | work=People | date=November 1, 1993 | accessdate=August 20, 2011 | author=Tim Allis}}</ref>

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[[Category:American male telenovela actors]]
[[Category:20th-century American male actors]]


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