# RIP Dave Madden **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 17, 2014, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dave-madden/679064 "2014-01-17T15:56:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dave-madden/679064/1 "2014-01-17T15:56:47Z")
Partridge Family manager David Madden has [died](http://www.indystar.com/story/entertainment/movies/2014/01/16/hoosier-actor-david-madden-partridge-family-agent-die/4543325/). He was 82. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dave-madden/679064/2 "2014-01-17T16:24:54Z")
Yeah, his story got overshadowed by the death of Russel Johnson the same day. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dave-madden/679064/3 "2014-01-17T16:34:33Z")
So which one is Princess Di, and which is Mother Teresa? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dave-madden/679064/4 "2014-01-17T16:44:39Z")
Johnson was Michael Jackson, and Madden was Farrah Fawcett. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dave-madden/679064/5 "2014-01-17T17:11:20Z")
Wow, he must have been much younger in _Partridge Family_ than he seemed to me at the time. Granted I was in grade school watching in syndication. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dave-madden/679064/6 "2014-01-17T17:42:02Z")
My friend was convinced that he and Shirley Jones were married IRL. I said no, she’s married to Keith’s real father. Wouldn’t blame Madden if he had had hearts for SJ, but Jack Cassidy would have knocked his block off if he’d done anything about it! ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dave-madden/679064/7 "2014-01-17T18:04:54Z")
I mentioned this in the other thread, but worth repeating here: Madden cracked me up with his moving hairline. When he frowned, his forehead shrank an inch; a pop-eyed “Danny, what did you do NOW” face and it grew an inch. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dave-madden/679064/8 "2014-01-17T18:10:50Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > I mentioned this in the other thread, but worth repeating here: Madden cracked me up with his moving hairline. When he frowned, his forehead shrank an inch; a pop-eyed “Danny, what did you do NOW” face and it grew an inch. That’s one of the promo spots for the show on Antenna TV, making fun of Madden’s hairline. I also remember him from way back in the day on Rowan and Martin’s “Laugh-In.” ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dave-madden/679064/9 "2014-01-18T03:05:43Z")
Yeah, the Fickle Finger of Fate got him.