Bobby Sherman

Bobby Sherman was born Robert Cabot Sherman in Santa Monica, California to parents Robert and Juanita Sherman.

As a child, Bobby was shy, preferring to make things at home, such as a replica of Disneyland, and play musical instruments.

He was attending college when he was invited to a Hollywood party and convinced to take a turning singing. When he did, attendees such as Sal Mineo and Natalie Wood took notice. He soon had an agent and was signed on as the house singer for a variety show called Shindig! in 1964. The show lasted two seasons.

He also made guest appearances on popular 1960s series such as Honey West (1965), The Monkees (1967) and The F.B.I. (1968). Soon after, he landed a starring role on the western series Here Come The Brides (1968 to 1970), playing one of three close knit brothers who own a mountain, and in order to keep the loggers who work for them happy, they transport 100 brides from Bedford, Massachusetts to live in Seattle.

Bobby's character, Jeremy Bolt, soon falls in love one of the brides, Candy, played by Bridget Hanley. By the time several episode had aired, it became clear that Bobby was a breakout star. He began receiving thousands of letters from fans each week and was signed to a recording contract. Several of his songs became hits.

During the second season of the show, Bobby was bumped from receiving co-star billing with David Soul, the actor who played his brother Joshua, to being second on the call list (and second billing) after Robert Brown, who played the oldest brother, Jason Bolt.

He also juggled touring the country performing concerts for screaming fans with his Here Come the Brides duties. Despite the show being a hit, it was cancelled after two seasons because network executives believed audiences wanted more sitcoms.

Bobby played a guest role on the highly rated new sitcom The Partridge Family in 1970, which in fact served as the pilot for his new series, Getting Together, in which he played an aspiring musician. Unfortunately, the series only lasted a year, but Bobby wasn't sorry, because he felt burned out from the constant touring and filming a series at the same time. After that, he appeared as a guest star on a number of series such as The Mod Squad (2 episodes in 1972), Emergency (1974), The Love Boat (1978 and 1982) and Fantasy Island (1981). He also starred in TV movies, including Skyway to Death (1974), He is My Brother (1975) and The Gossip Columnist (1980).

His last TV appearance was on Frasier in 1991, playing a cameo as himself. By this time he had all but retired from show business and had trained to be an EMT. As a member of the LAPD, he trained life saving methods and CPR to new recruits, while still working as an EMT.

He also toured with other former teen idols such as Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits, and Davy Jones and Micky Dolenz of The Monkees in The Teen Idol Tour in the 1990s.

Bobby married Patti Carnell on September 26, 1971. They have two sons, Christopher and Tyler, but by 1977, they had divorced. By 1980, Patti married Bobby's onscreen brother David Soul from Here Come the Brides, but the marriage ended six years later due to David's physical and emotional abuse.

Bobby didn't get married again until March 17, 2011, to Brigitte Poublon. That same year they launched The Brigitte and Bobby Sherman Children’s Foundation, to help children in Ghana.

In April 2025, Brigitte released a statement saying that Bobby was suffering from Stage 4 kidney cancer.