Brian A. Forster (born April 14, 1960) is an American former

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and race car driver. He is best known as the second actor to play the role of Chris Partridge in the television series ''

The Partridge Family ''The Partridge Family'' is an American musical sitcom starring Shirley Jones and featuring David Cassidy. Jones plays a widowed mother, and Cassidy plays the oldest of her five children, in a family who embarks on a music career. It ran from S ...

''.

Biography

Forster joined ''

'' in 1971, replacing

Jeremy Gelbwaks 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). Career Gelbwaks was the first actor to play the role of Chris Partri ...

, and continued until the show ended in 1974. Chris Partridge was the drummer of the fictional family band. As of 2002/2003, Forster was a

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driver in Northern California, and continued to act in

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there. Forster was born in Los Angeles, the son of English-born actors Jennifer Raine and Peter Forster and, through his mother, a great-great-great-grandson of

Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian er ...

. He is also the stepson of actor Whit Bissell and stepgrandson of actor

Alan Napier Alan William Napier-Clavering (7 January 1903 – 8 August 1988), better known as Alan Napier, was an English actor. After a decade in West End theatre, he had a long film career in Britain and later, in Hollywood. Napier is best remembered for ...

, who portrayed Alfred the Butler in the ''

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'' television series (1966–1968).C'MonGetHappy.com: An Interview With Brian Forster, Pt 1, November 2002 – March 2003
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Filmography

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External links

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Archive.org: The Talking Car (1969) – Forster stars in and narrates this traffic safety film
1960 births Living people American male child actors American male voice actors 20th-century American male actors American male television actors Male actors from Los Angeles Charles Dickens {{US-tv-actor-1960s-stub