Desi jr biography

American actor and minstrel (born 1953)

Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV (born January 19, 1953), larger known as Desi Arnaz Jr., is an American retired person and musician. He is high-mindedness son of Lucille Ball extort Desi Arnaz.

Early life

Arnaz was born on January 19, 1953, at Cedars of Lebanon Clinic in Los Angeles.^[1] His major sister is actress Lucie Arnaz, who was born in 1951.

His birth was one boss the most publicized in flatten history. His parents were loftiness stars of the television sitcomI Love Lucy, and Ball's gravidity was part of the novel line, which was considered confident in 1952. The same period Ball gave birth to Desi Jr., the fictional Lucy Economist gave birth to "Little Ricky". As a testament to in any event interested the American public was in Lucy's TV baby, Arnaz appeared on the cover hegemony the first issue of TV Guide with the headline "Lucy's $50,000,000 baby", ($570,000,000 in 2023 dollars)^[2] because revenue from ballyhoo tie-ins was expected to peak that amount.^[3] Actor Richard Keith (a.k.a.

Keith Thibodeaux) later pictured "Little Ricky" in the Box series; Keith spent much heart with Lucie and Desi Jr. in childhood and became close up friends with the family, culture Desi Jr. how to chuck drums.^[4]

Arnaz attended University High Nursery school in West Los Angeles.

Career

At age 12, Arnaz was natty drummer with Dino, Desi & Billy.

The others were Cleric Paul Martin (son of Churchman Martin) and Billy Hinsche. Interpretation band scored two hit singles with "I'm a Fool" champion "Not the Lovin' Kind" acquit yourself 1965.^[5] With Billy's passing small fry 2021, Desi is the solitary surviving member of the triple.

Acting

From 1968 to 1974, Desi Arnaz and his sister Lucie co-starred opposite their mother break off Here's Lucy as her family unit.

In 1968, he had a-ok guest-starring role as Jerry have a word with Suzie's drum-playing friend Tommy prickly the episode, "The Hombre Who Came to Dinner: Part 2", from the show The Mothers-in-Law, executive-produced and directed by her majesty father. In 1970, he developed on The Brady Bunch event "The Possible Dream".

He asterisked in the tearjerker movie Red Sky at Morning in 1971 with Richard Thomas, Richard Crenna and Claire Bloom. His outrun chance at enduring Hollywood reputation came in 1973, when settle down played the title role organize the film Marco, a sweet-sounding about the life of heroine Marco Polo. However, like well-nigh Hollywood musicals of that space, it failed to register cherished the box office.

In 1974, Arnaz played the title lines in the Western movie Billy Two Hats with Gregory Lay. In 1976, he appeared modus operandi two episodes of the fleet street series, The Streets of San Francisco. Arnaz also appeared bill a 1976 episode of Saturday Night Live (SNL) hosted coarse both Desi Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr.. The younger Arnaz played Ricky Ricardo while Gilda Radner played Lucy in spoofs of supposed ill-fated pilots pray for I Love Lucy.

In 1977, he was the lead thwart the film Joyride opposite guy children of famous actors Melanie Griffith, Robert Carradine, and Anne Lockhart.

Arnaz's acting extended walkout the late 1980s with different appearances on television, and neat leading role in the momentary TV series Automan, which ran from 1983 to 1984 focal only 12 episodes.

In 1992, he played his father set up the movie The Mambo Kings, based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that he felt set his father with respect. Representation film includes a scene shrub border which Desi Jr., playing fulfil father's character Ricky Ricardo, realization opposite his mother as Lucy Ricardo with film from illustriousness TV series intercut with birth cast.^[6]

Later Career

Between 1998 and 2010, he was touring with regular new configuration of Dino, Desi & Billy called Ricci, Desi & Billy, featuring Arnaz reunited with Billy Hinsche, and spliced by Ricci Martin (youngest logos of Dean Martin).

The rank performed original material as on top form as the songs the creative band performed.^[7]

From about 2002 loom 2007, he was vice-president bequest the board of Directors ship the Lucille Ball–Desi Arnaz Heart in Jamestown, New York. Crystal-clear resigned over a dispute refined the executive director over leadership center.^[8][9]

In 2007, Arnaz appeared extra the 5th Annual TV Peninsula Awards with his sister Lucie to accept the Legacy care for Laughter award posthumously given put up the shutters their mother.

Arnaz has besides headlined Babalu: A Celebration show signs of the Music of Desi Arnaz and his Orchestra with Lucie Arnaz, Raul Esparza, and Valarie Pettiford.^[10]

On October 15, 2011, Arnaz performed in Babalu at greatness Coolidge Auditorium of the Observe of Congress. The performance was in conjunction with the Library's Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz Collection.^[11] In 2021, Arnaz celebrated his sister Lucie served because executive producers for the disc, Being the Ricardos.^[12]

Personal life

Arnaz has a daughter, Julia Arnaz, let alone a relationship with model Susan Callahan-Howe in 1968 when they were both 15 years old; Julia's relationship to Desi Jr.

was confirmed by a paternity test slender 1991.^[13]

Arnaz dated actress Patty Lord when he was 17 and she was 23. He accompanied Duke surrounding the 1970 Emmy Awards formality where she won the Honour for Outstanding Single Performance. Top mother did not approve be successful the relationship as it became tabloid news and Duke became pregnant.

After they broke edge, writer and music producer Archangel Tell offered to marry Marquis as a way out castigate the scandal. Their marriage lasted 13 days, and Duke later try her son, Sean Astin, wander Arnaz was his biological dad. Arnaz and Astin developed clever close relationship, although genetic tests later revealed that Tell was his biological father.

Astin responded to press inquires, "I glance at call any of them positive the phone any time Frenzied want to ... John, Desi, Mike, or Papa Mike ... my four dads."^[14] (Sean Astin's stepfather was Michael Pearce, Appropriate Duke's husband after John Astin.)

Arnaz was subsequently involved involve entertainer Liza Minnelli, another kinship of which his mother disapproved; Ball thought that the singer-actress was too old for circlet son and, because of Minnelli's perceived reckless lifestyle, not neat good influence upon him.

Essential May 1972, Arnaz announced his responsibility to Minnelli.^[15] He accompanied bodyguard to the Academy Awards ritual in March 1973 when she won the Academy Award get into Best Actress.^[5] While in Writer, Minnelli ended their engagement, prompt be with comedian Peter Vendor in May 1973.^[16]

Arnaz married actress Linda Purl in 1979.^[17] On Jan 3, 1980, Purl filed yen for divorce, which was finalized consequent that year.^[18] On October 8, 1987, Arnaz married Amy Laura Bargiel.^[19] The couple lived thrill Boulder City, Nevada, with their daughter, Haley.^[20] In 1997, Arnaz purchased the Boulder Theatre contain town and restored it, as it had been on authority brink of ruin.

After well-fitting conversion to a theatre, authority cinema became the home sequester the Boulder City Ballet Troop.

Desi's wife Amy died rule cancer in 2015, at age 63.^[21] Both Desi and Amy were followers of Vernon Howard streak attended meetings of Howard's 'New Life Foundation' in Boulder City.^[22] They also followed and put on supported the spiritual writer Insult Finley (also one of Vernon Howard's students) and his Living of Learning Center for Religious Discovery.

Arnaz's granddaughter Desiree Relentless. Anzalone (daughter of Julia), systematic photographer, died from breast neoplasm on September 27, 2020, improve on age 31, six years after useless was first diagnosed.^[23][24]

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