In 1970 Bobby Sherman was one of the most famous young men in America, with hit singles, a television series and his face on teen magazine covers every month. A few years later he quietly left show business, trained as an emergency medical technician and spent decades helping people in emergencies and teaching first aid to police officers in Los Angeles. Sherman died at his home in California on June 24, 2025, after a battle with stage 4 cancer he had revealed earlier in the year. He was 81. His wife, Brigitte Poublon, announced his death, and the actor John Stamos shared her message.
Sherman was born in Santa Monica, California, in 1943. He became a regular singer on the ABC music show Shindig! in the mid-1960s and then starred as Jeremy Bolt, the youngest of three brothers bringing brides to a logging town in the 1860s, in the series Here Come the Brides from 1968 to 1970.
Little Woman
His records followed his television fame. “Little Woman”, in 1969, “La La La (If I Had You)” and “Julie, Do Ya Love Me” were all top ten hits, and after guest-starring in The Partridge Family he was given his own spin-off series, Getting Together. For a few years he was one of the biggest-selling pop singers in the country, and the teen magazines treated him as their biggest star. In the 1970s Sherman trained as an emergency medical technician, and later worked with the Los Angeles Police Department as a reserve officer and trainer, teaching first aid and emergency medicine. In 1999 he was named the LAPD’s reserve officer of the year. He was survived by his wife and his two sons, Christopher and Tyler.
Sherman spent only a few years as a pop star and decades in emergency medicine, the second career lasting far longer than the first.