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===Acting=== [[File:The Partridge Family Danny Bonaduce 1970.jpg|thumb|right|Bonaduce as Danny Partridge on the comedy series ''[[The Partridge Family]]'', 1970]] [[File:Partridge Family first cast 1970.JPG|thumb|left|''The Partridge Family'', season 1. L-R: [[Shirley Jones]], Jeremy Gelbwaks, [[Suzanne Crough]], [[Susan Dey]], Danny Bonaduce and [[David Cassidy]]]] Bonaduce made a small appearance in the ''[[Bewitched]]'' season 5 episode "Going Ape", which aired on February 27, 1969, as a young boy in the park whose chimpanzee follows Samantha ([[Elizabeth Montgomery]]) and Tabitha ([[Erin Murphy]]) home.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bewitched.net/bewseas5.htm|title=BEWITCHED Season 5 Episode Descriptions|website=www.bewitched.net}}</ref> Bonaduce had a substantial role on ''[[The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (TV series)|The Ghost & Mrs. Muir]]'' on the first-season episode ''Jonathan Tells It Like It Was'', aired March 1, 1969. He played competitor Danny Shoemaker in a history essay contest with Mrs. Muir's son Jonathan. Danny's father Joseph Bonaduce wrote the episode. In ''[[The Partridge Family]]'' Bonaduce played the role of Danny Partridge, a member of the musical Partridge family.<ref name="TVGuide">{{cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/danny-bonaduce/credits/146098/|title=Danny Bonaduce| website=TVGuide.com|publisher=[[TV Guide]]|access-date=October 16, 2019}}</ref> In the show, the Partridges were a family band that toured the country in their hip, [[Piet Mondrian|Mondrian]]-inspired, painted school bus. Danny Partridge played bass guitar for the band and his younger siblings, Tracy and Chris, contributed to the band as percussionists. The series ran for four seasons, from 1970 to 1974 and, in 2003, Bonaduce was honored by the [[Young Artist Award|Young Artist Foundation]] with its [[Young Artist Former Child Star Lifetime Achievement Award|Former Child Star "Lifetime Achievement" Award]] for his role on the series.<ref name="Young Artist Awards 24">{{cite web|url=http://www.youngartistawards.org/noms24.htm |title=24th Annual Young Artist Awards |access-date=March 31, 2011 |work=YoungArtistAwards.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140907111707/http://youngartistawards.org/noms24.htm |archive-date=September 7, 2014 }}</ref> He also voiced Danny in the 1974 Saturday morning cartoon ''[[Partridge Family 2200 A.D.]]'' Bonaduce made several movies during and after the run of ''The Partridge Family'', including ''[[Corvette Summer]]'' (1978) starring [[Mark Hamill]].<ref name=TVGuide /> Hamill and Bonaduce played high school students who went in search of a stolen customized [[Chevrolet Corvette (C3)|Corvette Stingray]]. Bonaduce also made guest appearances on several TV shows, including the television action drama ''[[CHiPs]]''.<ref name=TVGuide /> His career withered in the early 1980s. Bonaduce and ''Partridge Family'' co-star [[Dave Madden]] made [[cameo appearances]] in a 1994 episode of ''[[Married... with Children]]''. That same year, he appeared on an episode of ''[[Space Ghost Coast to Coast]]''. He has also guest-starred in the first two episodes of the seventh season of ''[[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation]]'' and as the son of [[Shirley Jones]]'s character in the fourth season of ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]''. Bonaduce has appeared as himself on the detective series ''[[Monk (TV series)|Monk]]''<ref name=TVGuide /> and on the show ''[[Girlfriends (U.S. TV series)|Girlfriends]]''. Bonaduce guest-starred with [[J. D. Roth]] (with whom he would later reunite for ''Breaking Bonaduce'') on a celebrity episode of ''[[Sex Wars (game show)|Sex Wars]]''. In 1999, Bonaduce appeared in the Christmas episode, "Sabrina, Nipping at Your Nose", of ''[[Sabrina, the Teenage Witch]]''. During his radio work, Bonaduce was the host of the segment "Bonaduce's Buzz" as part of [[WMAQ-TV]]'s morning newscast ''First Thing in The Morning'' with Art Norman and [[Allison Rosati]] in 1994; but he left the station the following year to concentrate on his syndicated talk show. During the 1995β96 TV season, Bonaduce was the host of ''[[Danny (talk show)|Danny!]]'', a syndicated talk show featuring the house band The Critics.<ref name=TVGuide /> From 2001 to 2003, Bonaduce co-hosted ''[[The Other Half (talk show)|The Other Half]]'', a daytime talk show positioned as a complementary show to ''[[The View (U.S. TV series)|The View]]'', on which he starred with [[Mario Lopez]], [[Dick Clark]] and [[cosmetic surgeon]] Dr. [[Jan Adams (surgeon)|Jan Adams]] (who was later replaced by actor [[Dorian Gregory]]). During this time, he was also a Hollywood correspondent for the Australian morning show ''[[Today (1982 TV program)|Today]]''. In 2005, Bonaduce starred in ''[[Breaking Bonaduce]]'' a [[VH1]] reality show about his turbulent life with his wife Gretchen.<ref name=TVGuide /> In 2006, he had a recurring role in the crime scene drama ''[[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation|CSI]]'' as a character known as Izzy Delancy β a once great, but philandering, rock star, the victim of the infamous miniature killer. He also hosted the short-lived [[Tabloid journalism|tabloid-themed]] game show ''[[Starface]]'', on [[Game Show Network]]. In 2007, Bonaduce was both host and judge of the show ''[[I Know My Kid's a Star]]'', a reality show on VH1 featuring parents and children trying to break into show business. He also appeared as a judge on the Australian version of the show, ''[[My Kid's a Star]]''. Bonaduce, admitting his own less-than-stellar track record, was a commentator for [[TruTV]]'s ''[[TruTV Presents: World's Dumbest...]]'' from 2008 to 2013.
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