Gary Dubin

{{Short description|American actor (1959–2016)}}

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| name = Gary Dubin

| image = Gary Dubin.webp

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| birth_name = Gary Michael Dubin

| birth_date = {{birth date|1959|5|5}}

| birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|2016|10|8|1959|5|5}}

| death_place = Burbank, California, U.S.

| other_names = Gary Michaels
Garry Michaels

| occupation = Actor

| years_active = 1966–2013

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Gary Michael Dubin (May 5, 1959 – October 8, 2016) was an American actor. He was best known for his portrayal of Punky Lazaar, a friend of Danny Partridge on The Partridge Family.{{cite book |last=Terrace |first=Vincent |year=2011 |title=Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010 |publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc. |isbn=978-0-7864-6477-7 |page=814 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ZhIewAACAAJ}} He also voiced Toulouse in The Aristocats in 1970 and played the part of ill-fated teenager Eddie Marchand, who was eaten by the shark in Jaws 2.

Dubin portrayed a runaway boy on Green Acres in 1968. In 1969, he portrayed deaf boy Dal in the season 1 episode 25 of Land of the Giants titled, "Shell Game". He appeared in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever in the carnival scene, where he lost to Jill St. John at the water balloons, complaining that he had been cheated and that she needed more wins to get the stuffed animal that, unknowing, contained the diamonds. Dubin was also a prominent voice actor in dubbing for Japanese animation throughout the 1990s to the early 2000s.

He has also acted in many other projects, his most recent being RockBarnes: The Emperor in You. Dubin died on October 8, 2016, from bone cancer, a sibling of his revealed. He was 57 years old.{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1273271019370440 |title=+ RIP My beloved brother Gary Michael Dubin [May 5, 1959 - October 8, 2016], who lost his battle with cancer & passed away this afternoon in Burbank, California. <3 |first=L. E. |last=Dubin |date=9 October 2016 |access-date=9 December 2018 |work=Facebook}}{{cite journal |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gary-dubin-dead-partridge-family-938179 |title=Gary Dubin, Child Actor on 'The Partridge Family' and 'The AristoCats,' Dies at 57 |first=Mike |last=Barnes |date=13 October 2016 |access-date=9 December 2018 |journal=The Hollywood Reporter}}{{cite web |url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-10-16/actor-voice-actor-gary-dubin-passes-away/.107718 |title=Actor, Voice Actor Gary Dubin Passes Away |date=16 October 2016 |work=Anime News Network |access-date=17 October 2016 |first=Crystalyn |last=Hodgkins}}