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Richard Vincent Van Patten (December 9, 1928 – June 23, 2015) was an American actor, comedian, businessman, and animal welfare advocate, whose career spanned seven decades of television. He was best known for his role as patriarch Tom Bradford on the television series Eight Is Enough .
Dick Van Patten. Actor: Spaceballs. Dick Van Patten began acting as a child. He made his first of 27 Broadway appearances at age seven in "Tapestry in Grey." After, he appeared in numerous films, including Freaky Friday (1976), Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), and Spaceballs (1987).
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Dick Van Patten. Actor: Spaceballs. Dick Van Patten began acting as a child. He made his first of 27 Broadway appearances at age seven in "Tapestry in Grey." After, he appeared in numerous films, including Freaky Friday (1976), Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), and Spaceballs (1987).
- December 9, 1928
- June 23, 2015
Jun 24, 2015 · Dick Van Patten (1928 - 2015) talks about the first time he met Mel Brooks. On June 6, 2012, Dick Van Patten was interviewed for American Masters – Mel Brooks: Make A Noise (2013).
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Jun 24, 2015 · Actor Dick Van Patten, best known for playing the genial dad on the “Eight is Enough” hit TV series in the 1970s and 1980s, had a long and varied career that started before he could read.
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Jun 23, 2015 · Dick Van Patten, best known as Tom Bradford, head of the Eight Is Enough sitcom family, has died at age 86 from complications from diabetes. Van Patten’s sunny demeanor made him a...
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Jun 24, 2015 · Dick Van Patten, the genial comic actor best known as the patriarch of TV’s ‘Eight is Enough’ has died, according to his publicist Daniel Bernstein. No details on his death were immediately available.
