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Dave Madden dead: 'Partridge Family' actor who played agent Reuben Kincaid was 82

January 17, 2013


Comic actor Dave Madden, who played the child-hating agent on the hit 1970s sitcom "The Partridge Family," died in Florida yesterday at age 82.

Madden died at a hospice center near his home in the Jacksonville area, his niece Mary Frances Miller said.

Towering and rumpled, Madden was best known for his role as Reuben Kincaid, who managed the Partridge family band and regularly clashed with its impish preteen bassist, played by Danny Bonaduce.

While the series starred Shirley Jones, with her real-life son David Cassidy as the resident heartthrob, it was Madden and the freckle-faced Bonaduce who became the reigning comic duo.

Jones said Madden "made the show, I felt."

"His relationship with Danny Bonaduce is what made the show work: this strange, mad little boy and the grown man who was even worse as a father figure," she said yesterday. "It was hysterical!"

But though Madden played a guy bedeviled by the youngsters who surrounded him, Jones said that off-camera he "loved kids." And Bonaduce later wrote how during his troubled youth Madden served as his surrogate father.

Before "The Partridge Family," Madden was part of the ensemble on the "Laugh-In" comedy series, sipping and sometimes spitting milk along with joining in the show's zany sketches and crazy jokes. He later had a recurring role as one of the customers at Mel's Diner on the long-running sitcom "Alice."

Madden was born in Ontario, Canada, and grew up in North Terre Haute, Ind.

During his career, he also appeared on such series as "Bewitched," "Barney Miller," "Happy Days," "The Love Boat" and "Fantasy Island."








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