- Born
- Birth nameRobert Cabot Sherman Jr.
- Height5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- Bobby started in the hit television program Shindig as the house singer from 1964 to 1966. After it was canceled, he did guest appearances in shows like The Monkees, Honey West and The FBI before starring in his breakout role in Here Come The Brides from 1968 to 1970. He also performed in an episode of The Partridge Family, which was used as a pilot for his spin-off series in Getting Together 1971, which ran for 13 episodes. In the '80s, he was a regular on the short-lived Sanchez of Bel Air..
Bobby was promoted to Captain on the Los Angeles Police Department, where he taught CPR and life saving techniques to incoming academy recruits. For a few years, he was also one of the members of the Teen Idol Tour, which also included Peter Noone, Davy Jones and, then later, Micky Dolenz replacing Jones. Bobby is the father of two grown sons, both of them following their famous father into the music industry.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Chris Lawenstein
- SpousesBrigitte Poublon(March 17, 2011 - present)Patricia Anne Carnal(September 26, 1971 - September 1977) (divorced, 2 children)
- A qualified EMT, Sherman joined the LAPD in 1988 as a specialist officer, training police recruits in first aid and CPR.
- In 1999, Sherman joined the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department in the same capacity he held with the LAPD.
- Sal Mineo bought Sherman a set of drums when he helped him break into the music industry in 1963-1964. (Mineo had learned to play the drums for his role of Gene Krupa in The Gene Krupa Story (1959).) In 1970, when Mineo was broke and Sherman was riding high after appearing in the TV series Here Come the Brides (1968) and scoring big as a pop star, Mineo's lover Courtney Burr contacted Sherman and requested that he reimburse his former mentor for the drums. Sherman's manager sent Mineo $3,000 (equivalent to $23,618 in 2023 when adjusted for inflation).
- Ranked #8 in TV Guide's list of "TV's 25 Greatest Teen Idols" (23 January 2005 issue).
- The one time protégé of actor Sal Mineo, Mineo produced two early songs for Bobby -- "Nobody's Sweetheart" and "I Wanna Hear It from Her". Moreover, Mineo was instrumental in Bobby landing a regular job as a "house singer" on the popular teen variety show Shindig! (1964).
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