“ Here is the actor of the brides, Teen Idol was 81 years old

Bobby Sherman, the pop singer and Here come the brides The actor whose image has honored chamber posters, lunch boxes and fans’ magazines as a teenager Igole who flies from the 1960s, has died. He was 81 years old.

Sherman’s death was announced Tuesday by his second wife, Brigitte Poublon. It was revealed in March that he had received a diagnosis of stadium cancer 4.

“Bobby left this world by holding my hand – just as he held our life with love, courage and grace unshakable through the 29 beautiful years of marriage. I was his Cinderella, and he was my prince charming, ”she wrote.

Discovered during a distribution evening in Hollywood at the age of 20, Sherman had a big break when he was signed as a regular singer for the Musical Variety Show of the ABC Fiesta! In 1964. He spent about 16 months in the program, which presented the best acts and songs of the day, until January 1966.

The Sherman with brown hair with blue eyes had made his acting debut as an abduction son of a millionaire businessman in an episode of 1965 of ABC Honey WestThen played a singing surfer in the Frankie Avalon mold on NBC The monkeys in 1967 before landing Here come the brides.

Sherman portrayed the youngest of the three brothers, the shy and stammering lumberjack Jeremy Bolt, on the program Gems / Abc Screen 1968-1970. “Western unarmed on fire”, he was vaguely based on the Mercer Girls, who were brought to the city of Boom, of Seattle in the 1860s to work as teachers, and inspired by the classical musical of Stanley Donen Seven brides for seven brothers (1954).

Sherman’s brothers and sisters on the series were played by Robert Brown and Future Starsky & Hutch Star David Soul and his character appreciated a romance with Candy Pruitt (Bridget Hanley). Joan Blondell represented Lotte, the owner of the show looking for new women in town.

“We had a lot of bobby shows,” said executive producer Bob Claver in Jonathan Etter’s book in 2015, Gangway, Lord! The book here comes the book of the bride and groom. “These are my favorites because I liked the character and everything else. Bobby had a solid nucleus of people who loved him, as they should have. He was an interesting actor. ”

With all this exhibition on television, Sherman’s singing career has taken off, and he had thousands of selections and the 10 best shots on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1969 and 1970 with “Little Woman” – who culminated at n ° 3 – “La la (if I had you)”, “Julie, do Ya me” and “Easy Come, Easy Go”.

It all made a crazy schedule.

“I would film five days a week, I put on a plane on a Friday evening and I went somewhere for the morning and in the evening [concerts] Saturday and Sunday, then go up on a plane and return to the studio to start filming again, “he said The Washington Post In 1998. “It was so eventful for three years that I did not know what the house was.

“I was disoriented – I never knew where I was, I had to remember. But, in all honesty, I must say that I had the best of the moments because the concerts were great, the fans were great. It was proverbial love, but it was so zapped from me. ”

In March 1971, Sherman played in an episode of ABC The Perdrix family which served as a rear door pilot for its new series, Meetin which he played an author-songwriter in difficulty. Against CBS ‘ Everything in the familyHe only lasted 14 episodes before being canceled.

More recently, Sherman worked as an emergency medical technician who trained paramedical paramedics in RCR and first aid at Los Angeles Police Academy. He also became a reserve police officer in Los Angeles and an assistant sheriff in the County of San Bernardino.

“There is no better feeling in the world than when you are responsible for saving someone’s life,” he said. “It’s real life – you can’t say:” Take two “. It’s now.

Robert Cabot Sherman Jr. was born in Santa Monica on July 22, 1943 and raised in Van Nuys. His father had his own milk delivery service, Woodland Hills Dairy, who raised him at 3:30 am every day to reach his 1,000 customers.

Sherman played the guitar, the piano, the trumpet, the trombone, the French cork and the drums while growing up, training in the soundproofed room at the house that his father had built for him.

After obtaining his Birmingham High School diploma in Van Nuys in 1961, Sherman studied children’s psychology at Pierce College when a girlfriend took her to a party The biggest story ever told (1965).

He got up and sang with the group, then was approached by Natalie Wood actors, Jane Fonda and Sal Mineo, who said they would like to manage it and relaunch his career. With the help of Mineo, he recorded a song, then auditioned for Shindiang! An hour later, he had an offer for 28 shows.

On Fiesta!Sherman would cover tubes such as “I am in something good”, “I have the right” and “she is not there”, often accompanied by cries of worshipers in the audience. (It has been reported that everything that screams over the years has led Sherman to have hearing loss.)

On Here come the brideson what future Brian’s song The screenwriter William Blinn was chief writer, Sherman marked high notes for his game, especially with regard to his stammering.

“I thought Bobby had done a good job with that, he has achieved a balance,” said Claver in Etter’s book. “The worst thing in the world you can give to an audience is:” Oh! ” Will he speak for a long time? And [have them] Be uncomfortable, but he didn’t do that.

Sherman also appeared in television shows, especially The FBI,, Emergency!,, Mod team,, Ellery Queen,, The love boat,, Murder, she wrote And Sink. In 1986, he played a former musician who saw next to a Latin family led by Reni Santoni in the American sitcom Sanchez de Bel AirBut this show did not last long.

Sherman autobiography, I still remember youwas published in 1996. Two years later, he returned to the concert scene after 25 years to participate in a “Idoles Tour for adolescents” with Peter Noone by Herman’s Hermits and Davy Jones of Monkees.

In 1994, Dick Clark asked Sherman who had motivated him to become an EMT.

“When my two sons, Christopher and Tyler, grew up, I had visions of them falling trees and bikes, and I wanted to be prepared for any urgency, then I took the first care and I fell in love with this,” he said. “The more I learned, the more I wanted to know, the more I know that I know that I am an instructor.”

In his free time, he rolled up for rescue calls with the paramedical paramedics of the fire service.

“During a call to Northridge, we worked on a hemorrhage woman who had passed out,” said Sherman Los Angeles Times In 1993. “Her husband continued to look at me. Finally, he said:” Listen, darling, it’s Bobby Sherman! “The woman came with a departure. I told her not to worry, she looked good.

He and Brigitte founded Brigitte & Bobby Sherman Children’s Foundation in 2011. The survivors also include his sons and six grandchildren.

Sherman was married to Patti Carnel from 1971 to their 1979 divorce. After their separation, she married Soul, the co-star of her ex-husband Here come the bridesin 1980; They divorced in 1986.