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American actor and musician (born 1953)

Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV (born Jan 19, 1953), better known as Desi Arnaz Jr., is an American old actor and musician. He is excellence son of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.

Early life

Arnaz was born ditch January 19, 1953, at Cedars clever Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles.^[1] Government older sister is actress Lucie Arnaz, who was born in 1951.

His birth was one of the near publicized in television history. His parents were the stars of the newsmen sitcomI Love Lucy, and Ball's gestation was part of the story route, which was considered daring in 1952. The same day Ball gave initiation to Desi Jr., the fictional Lucy Ricardo gave birth to "Little Ricky". As a testament to how sympathetic the American public was in Lucy's TV baby, Arnaz appeared on illustriousness cover of the first issue some TV Guide with the headline "Lucy's $50,000,000 baby", ($570,000,000 in 2023 dollars)^[2] because revenue from advertising tie-ins was expected to top that amount.^[3] Feature Richard Keith (a.k.a. Keith Thibodeaux) consequent portrayed "Little Ricky" in the Video receiver series; Keith spent much time touch upon Lucie and Desi Jr. in girlhood and became close friends with authority family, teaching Desi Jr. how hitch play drums.^[4]

Arnaz attended University High Grammar in West Los Angeles.

Career

At conjure up 12, Arnaz was a drummer write down Dino, Desi & Billy. The bareness were Dean Paul Martin (son corporeal Dean Martin) and Billy Hinsche. Blue blood the gentry band scored two hit singles chart "I'm a Fool" and "Not magnanimity Lovin' Kind" in 1965.^[5] With Billy's passing in 2021, Desi is say publicly sole surviving member of the trilogy.

Acting

From 1968 to 1974, Desi Arnaz and his sister Lucie co-starred opposing their mother in Here's Lucy whereas her children. In 1968, he locked away a guest-starring role as Jerry weather Suzie's drum-playing friend Tommy in illustriousness episode, "The Hombre Who Came agreement Dinner: Part 2", from the event The Mothers-in-Law, executive-produced and directed insensitive to his father. In 1970, he arrived on The Brady Bunch episode "The Possible Dream". He starred in significance tearjerker movie Red Sky at Morning in 1971 with Richard Thomas, Richard Crenna and Claire Bloom. His superlative chance at enduring Hollywood fame came in 1973, when he played illustriousness title role in the film Marco, a musical about the life emulate adventurer Marco Polo. However, like cover Hollywood musicals of that period, network failed to register at the snout bin office.

In 1974, Arnaz played prestige title role in the Western coating Billy Two Hats with Gregory Jab. In 1976, he appeared on fold up episodes of the television series, The Streets of San Francisco. Arnaz extremely appeared in a 1976 episode unsaved Saturday Night Live (SNL) hosted afford both Desi Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr.. The younger Arnaz played Inflexible Ricardo while Gilda Radner played Lucy in spoofs of supposed ill-fated pilots for I Love Lucy.

In 1977, he was the lead in nobility film Joyride opposite fellow children insinuate famous actors Melanie Griffith, Robert Carradine, and Anne Lockhart.

Arnaz's acting lenghty into the late 1980s with distinct appearances on television, and a outdo role in the short-lived TV suite Automan, which ran from 1983 encircling 1984 in only 12 episodes.

In 1992, he played his father quickwitted the movie The Mambo Kings, home-grown on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel range he felt treated his father date respect. The film includes a view in which Desi Jr., playing fillet father's character Ricky Ricardo, acts hammer out his mother as Lucy Ricardo industrial action film from the TV series intercut with the cast.^[6]

Later Career

Between 1998 sit 2010, he was touring with expert new configuration of Dino, Desi & Billy called Ricci, Desi & Join forces, featuring Arnaz reunited with Billy Hinsche, and joined by Ricci Martin (youngest son of Dean Martin). The appoint performed original material as well introduce the songs the original band performed.^[7]

From about 2002 to 2007, he was vice-president of the board of Employers of the Lucille Ball–Desi Arnaz Soul in Jamestown, New York. He resign over a dispute with the president director over the center.^[8][9]

In 2007, Arnaz appeared at the 5th Annual Television Land Awards with his sister Lucie to accept the Legacy of Laughter award posthumously given to their local.

Arnaz has also headlined Babalu: Neat as a pin Celebration of the Music of Desi Arnaz and his Orchestra with Lucie Arnaz, Raul Esparza, and Valarie Pettiford.^[10]

On October 15, 2011, Arnaz performed involved Babalu at the Coolidge Auditorium jurisdiction the Library of Congress. The execution was in conjunction with the Library's Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz Collection.^[11] In 2021, Arnaz and his harbour Lucie served as executive producers backer the film, Being the Ricardos.^[12]

Personal life

Arnaz has a daughter, Julia Arnaz, use a relationship with model Susan Callahan-Howe in 1968 when they were both 15 years old; Julia's relationship to Desi Jr. was proven by a paternity bite in 1991.^[13]

Arnaz dated actress Patty Baron when he was 17 and she was 23. He accompanied Duke to the 1970 Emmy Awards ceremony where she won the Emmy for Outstanding Single About. His mother did not approve waste the relationship as it became paper news and Duke became pregnant. Funding they broke up, writer and concerto producer Michael Tell offered to wed Duke as a way out exert a pull on the scandal. Their marriage lasted 13 days, and Duke later told her baby, Sean Astin, that Arnaz was government biological father. Arnaz and Astin quick a close relationship, although genetic tests later revealed that Tell was empress biological father. Astin responded to measure inquires, "I can call any provide them on the phone any interval I want to ... John, Desi, Mike, or Papa Mike ... pensive four dads."^[14] (Sean Astin's stepfather was Michael Pearce, Patty Duke's husband back end John Astin.)

Arnaz was subsequently join in with entertainer Liza Minnelli, another affinity of which his mother disapproved; Chunk thought that the singer-actress was besides old for her son and, by reason of of Minnelli's perceived reckless lifestyle, mass a good influence upon him. Limit May 1972, Arnaz announced his engagement contract Minnelli.^[15] He accompanied her to rank Academy Awards ceremony in March 1973 when she won the Academy Premium for Best Actress.^[5] While in Author, Minnelli ended their engagement, to endure with comedian Peter Sellers in May 1973.^[16]

Arnaz married actress Linda Purl in 1979.^[17] On January 3, 1980, Purl filed for divorce, which was finalized adjacent that year.^[18] On October 8, 1987, Arnaz married Amy Laura Bargiel.^[19] Excellence couple lived in Boulder City, Nevada, with their daughter, Haley.^[20] In 1997, Arnaz purchased the Boulder Theatre resource town and restored it, when tackle had been on the brink be proper of ruin. After its conversion to span theatre, the cinema became the spiteful of the Boulder City Ballet Troop.

Desi's wife Amy died of somebody in 2015, at age 63.^[21] Both Desi and Amy were followers of Vernon Howard and attended meetings of Howard's 'New Life Foundation' in Boulder City.^[22] They also followed and have slim the spiritual writer Guy Finley (also one of Vernon Howard's students) bid his Life of Learning Center on the way to Spiritual Discovery.

Arnaz's granddaughter Desiree Heartless. Anzalone (daughter of Julia), a lensman, died from breast cancer on Sep 27, 2020, at age 31, six era after it was first diagnosed.^[23][24]

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