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