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Rick Springfield Biography
Birth Name:
Richard Lewis Springthorpe
Birth Place:
Merrylands, New South Wales, Australia
Profession
Singer-wongwriter, musician, actor
Fast Facts
- Began playing guitar at the age of 13
- Dropped out of high school to tour with the band MTD, Ltd in Vietnam
- Joined the Australian band Zoot in 1969, best known for their single "It's About Time
- " Played Dr
- Noah Drake on General Hospital from 1981 to 1983 and then sporadically reappeared as the character from 2005 to 2013
- Hit Broadway in 1995 as a member of the original cast for the musical, Smokey Joe's Café
- Appeared in a 2000 commercial for AT&T playing his hit song "Jessie's Girl
- " In 2010, he released a memoir, Late, Late at Night
Relationships
- Mike Springthorpe -- Brother
- Norman Springthorpe -- Father
- Eileen Springthorpe -- Mother
- Joshua Springthorpe -- Son
- Barbara Porter -- Wife