Rick Springfield appeared in supporting roles in Ricki and the Flash and True Detective.
49 Facts About Rick Springfield
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Rick Springfield portrayed Dr Noah Drake on the daytime drama General Hospital, returning in 2013 for the show's 50th anniversary with his son, actor Liam Springthorpe.
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Rick Springfield played a depraved version of himself in Californication.
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In 2010, Rick Springfield published his autobiography, Late, Late at Night: A Memoir.
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Rick Springfield was born Richard Lewis Springthorpe on 23 August 1949 in Guildford, a western suburb of Sydney.
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Rick Springfield is the son of Eileen Louise and Norman James Springthorpe, an Australian Army career officer.
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Rick Springfield joined various bands in England, where his father was stationed from 1958 to 1963, and several more after returning to Australia.
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Rick Springfield provided all the songwriting, lead vocals, guitar, keyboard and banjo for the album.
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In 1973, Rick Springfield signed to Columbia Records and recorded his second album, Comic Book Heroes, which was produced by Porter.
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Rick Springfield was promoted as a teeny pop idol similar to David Cassidy and Donny Osmond.
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Rick Springfield spoke of the teenybopper image in Circus Magazine in 1973.
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Rick Springfield said he was not sure how it happened.
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Rick Springfield continued to write and record and, in 1981, released his next album, Working Class Dog.
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Rick Springfield won the 1981 Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance.
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Rick Springfield had further success with the follow-up albums Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet and Living in Oz.
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Rick Springfield was frustrated with people in interviews mistaking him for Bruce Springsteen, expressed in the track "Bruce" on the album Beautiful Feelings.
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In 1984, Rick Springfield starred in his own movie, Hard to Hold, and recorded the majority of the material on the accompanying soundtrack.
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Nonetheless, Rick Springfield released his next album Tao in 1985, scoring several modest hits from this release, including "State of the Heart" and "Celebrate Youth".
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That same year, Rick Springfield was one of several performers who participated in the Live Aid charity concert.
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Rick Springfield returned in 2020 via a one-off featured performance in the Coheed and Cambria single "Jessie's Girl 2", a sequel to the 1981 Rick Springfield single "Jessie's Girl".
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In 2021, Rick Springfield joined Russell Morris and formed The Morris Rick Springfield Project.
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The Morris Rick Springfield Project released Jack Chrome and the Darkness Waltz in October 2021 which debuted at number 34 on the ARIA Charts.
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Rick Springfield made his acting debut on The Six Million Dollar Man on 30 October 1977, in an episode entitled "Rollback".
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On 20 January 1978, Rick Springfield guest-starred on an episode of Wonder Woman titled "Screaming Javelin".
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Later in 1978, Rick Springfield played the character of Zac in Saga of a Star World, which was, with some differences, the pilot episode of the original Battlestar Galactica TV series.
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Rick Springfield co-starred as Keith Stewart in episode 17 of season 4 on The Rockford Files and as Tommy Archer in episode 4 of The Eddie Capra Mysteries in 1978.
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Rick Springfield had signed a contract with RCA Records and already recorded the album Working Class Dog, which neither he nor his agent had expected would do very well, which is why Springfield took the soap role.
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The success of the song boosted the ratings of the show which, according to Rick Springfield, "became the biggest show on TV for that summer".
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In 1984, Rick Springfield made a full-length feature film titled Hard to Hold.
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Rick Springfield starred in several episodes of the third season of Showtime's Californication.
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Rick Springfield starred in "Ho'ohuli Na'au", an episode of Hawaii Five-0.
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In December 2005, Rick Springfield was asked by the General Hospital producers to return to the show in his role as Dr Noah Drake after a 23-year absence.
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Rick Springfield's run was extended as a recurring guest star and not a full contract cast member until 2008.
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Rick Springfield returned to General Hospital as Dr Noah Drake in April 2013.
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Rick Springfield starred in "Everything Goes Better With Vampires", an episode of Hot in Cleveland.
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Rick Springfield had a recurring role on True Detective as Dr Irving Pitlor, a psychiatrist.
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In 2015 Springfield appeared as Greg alongside Meryl Streep in the movie Ricki and the Flash.
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In 2016, Rick Springfield was cast in the twelfth season of The CW series Supernatural where he played rocker Vince Vincente and Lucifer.
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In October 2017, Rick Springfield appeared as Pastor Charles on FX's American Horror Story: Cult.
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In July 2018 Rick Springfield played himself on Episode 4 of the YouTube original series Sideswiped.
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When Rick Springfield was 17, he attempted suicide by hanging himself.
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From late 1974 to early 1976, Rick Springfield was in a romantic relationship with actress Linda Blair, beginning when she was 15 and he was 25.
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In October 1984, Rick Springfield married his girlfriend, Barbara Porter, at his family's church in Australia.
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In 1985, when his first son was born and after the release of his Tao album, Rick Springfield took a break from his musical career to spend more time with his family and to deal with the depression that had affected him since his adolescence.
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At a concert at the House of Blues in Orlando, Florida, on 2 March 2006, Rick Springfield announced he had become a US citizen and votes Republican.
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In January 2018, Rick Springfield stated in an interview that he contemplated suicide in 2017.
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In May 2014, Rick Springfield published Magnificent Vibration: a novel, which made The New York Times Best Seller list.
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In 1985, Jimmy Hart recorded the song "Eat Your Heart Out Rick Springfield", featured on The Wrestling Album.
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On 9 May 2014, Rick Springfield was honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to music.