The star had an intriguing Professional career, leaping from one field of amusement straight to another. His private life has been not any less fascinating. Infamous for alcohol and substance misuse since he was a teen, Danny has been arrested over once and already beat several bitter divorces. Therefore let us take a closer look not only at his Professional, but also private life.
His youth had not been simple, as Joseph frequently used both physical and mental violence against his son. Maybe this is why in one of his interviews Danny has said: There are all of those people who say, my mother does not love me enough, my dad does not embrace me enough. There are a lot of folks that will need to coddle them someplace. I need them to shut up and stop whining.” It has to be hard to hear folks whining about their small problems, if you have spent your youth within an atmosphere of the Vietnamese War. As an adult, the celebrity has expressed an opinion that if he’d not have grown in the specific family he did, he’d happen to be a distinct man. We are going to discuss the effects the traumatic experiences have had on his character a bit latter, but for the time being, let us see how Danny Bonaduce net worth began to grow.
In this show the lad has impersonated the middle son of the household, Danny Partridge, while Dave Madden appeared as the supervisor of the group formed it. For Bonaduce, who had been mistreated by his own parent, Dave was like an actual dad. Through the intervals of national strife at Danny’s house, he used to take the lad to his own family. Seemingly this was insufficient to take the teen from the erroneous path he was set onto by his actual dad. As the show finished, the youthful performer began abusing alcohol and substances. It appears like Danny has not had the opportunity to beat his alcohol addiction for most of his life. She eventually came to her perceptions and divorced me.”
Dante Daniel Bonaduce , Dante Daniel "Danny" Bonaduce
Music Groups
The Partridge Family, Redd Kross
Nominations
TV Land Quintessential Non-Traditional Family Award, TV Land Favorite Singing Siblings Award
Movies
Corvette Summer, Bigfoot, Come On Get Happy: The Partridge Family Story, Charlotte's Web, H.O.T.S., Baker's Hawk, Murder on Flight 502, Deadly Intruder, America's Deadliest Home Video, Lil' Pimp, The '70s: Bellbottoms to Boogie Shoes
TV Shows
The Partridge Family, Breaking Bonaduce, truTV Presents: World's Dumbest..., I Know My Kid's a Star, Hulk Hogan's Celebrity Championship Wrestling, Celebrity Paranormal Project, The Other Half, Partridge Family 2200 A.D., Goober and the Ghost Chasers, Fred Flintstone and Friends, Secret Talents of t...
Star Sign
Leo
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Trademark
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Known for his short temper
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Deep raspy voice
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Red hair and blue eyes
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Gretchen [wife Gretchen Bonaduce] was my light at the end of a long tunnel of pain and struggle. She made sure I got my act together and life has been so much better since she has been in it.
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There's nothing like turning on the radio and listening to the high-speed chase that you're leading police on!
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Being a child star is great. It's being a former child star that sucks.
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When I was living on the street I would be standing out in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater, leaning against my car and signing autographs and nobody had any idea that I was living in it. No one had any idea that I was going to pull my car around the corner and go to sleep.
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Most child actors were lucky enough to get the part in the first place. They cry and complain that now they are no longer little and cute Hollywood has no use for them. What we often fail to appreciate is that being little and cute may have been their only skill. Now that we are not so little anymore, and certainly not cute, some of us may have to face reality, stop whining, and get real jobs.
Studied American Tang Soo Do under Chuck Norris' black belt student Bob Burbidge. Burbidge got his black belt and trained under Pat E. Johnson, Norris' #1 and action/stunt director of all the "Karate Kids", "Ninja Turtles", "Mortal Kombats" series and more.
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Has said that he did not start drinking alcohol until after he kicked his cocaine habit in the early 1990s.
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Said that he was so broke in the early 1980s that he lived out of his car near a dumpster. He would pose for pictures with fans during the day and sleep in his car at night.
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Ranked #10 in VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Kid Stars"
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Holds black belts in the following martial arts: Okinawan Chinan Ryu; Tae Kwon Do; Tokyo-Ryu; Shorin Ryu. He won the 1980 and 1981 International Championships.
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Appeared in eight episodes of CHiPs (1977) as a martial artist.
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Has studied martial arts under Chuck Norris for over 20 years.
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His fame as a Partridge led to jealousies at home, making an already bad family situation worse. To get him away from that atmosphere, TV mom Shirley Jones and the other adults from the cast had Danny stay with them some weekends. Jones had children around Danny's age, so he fit in at her house. Susan Dey and David Cassidy treated him like a kid brother, while Dave Madden was like a bachelor father or bad uncle, teaching Danny to play cards, drive a car . . . and smoke.
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Best known these days as a motor-mouthed radio deejay.
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During auditions for The Partridge Family (1970) there were two different Partridge families. Danny was in the family that did not get hired.
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Daughter is named Isabella Bonaduce (aka Countess Isabella Michaela Bonaduce). Son is named Dante Bonaduce (aka Count Dante Jean-Michel Valentino Bonaduce).
Has stated that he and his wife, Gretchen Bonaduce, met on a blind date, and they were married that same day. However, in interviews he has mentioned Nov. 4, 1990 as the wedding date while divorce papers list Dec. 6, 1990 as the date.
$3 Million
