Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid nominated), and Best Actress for Katharine Ross, among others. William Goldman won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay. In 2003, the film was selected for the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The Academy Film Archive preserved "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" in 1998. The film inspired the television series "Alias Smith and Jones", starring Pete Duel and Ben Murphy as outlaws trying to earn an amnesty. A parody titled "Botch Casually and the Somedunce Kid" was published in "MAD". It was illustrated by
Jack Cassidy Cassidy married singer and actress Shirley Jones. Cassidy and Jones had three sons, Shaun, Patrick, and Ryan. Cassidy's eldest son David later starred with Jones in the musical sitcom "The Partridge Family." Son Shaun also became a teen idol in the late 70's, starring in "The Hardy Boys" series, and producing four Top 40 records. Jones and Cassidy divorced in 1974. In his 1994 autobiography, "C'Mon, Get Happy", Cassidy's eldest son David wrote that he became increasingly concerned about his father in the last years of his life. The elder Cassidy suffered from bipolar disorder and was an alcoholic who