Joyce Van Patten (sister) Tim Van Patten (half-brother) Talia Balsam (niece) Grace Van Patten (niece)
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.
Van Patten began work as a child actor and was successful on the New York stage, appearing in more than a dozen plays as a teenager. He worked in radio, on Duffy's Tavern.[1] He later starred in numerous television roles including the long-running CBS television series, "Mama" and Young Doctor Malone. Later, he would star or co-star in many feature films, including Charly, Mel Brooks's Robin Hood: Men in Tights and Spaceballs, and Soylent Green. Van Patten was the founder of Natural Balance Pet Foods and National Guide Dog Month.
^Dunning, John (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old Time Radio. Oxford University Press. p. 212. ISBN 978-0195076783. (within Cast section) Dickie Van Patten as Finnegan's kid brother Wilfred.
Bellerose, New York, as the youngest son of actor DickVanPatten and his wife, Patricia Helon "Pat" VanPatten (née Poole), a former June Taylor dancer. He...
Joyce Benignia VanPatten (born March 9, 1934) is an American film and stage actress. She is best known for her roles in films like The Bad News Bears...
New York. He is the half-brother of DickVanPatten and Joyce VanPatten, and the uncle of Vincent VanPatten and Talia Balsam. He graduated from Massapequa...
VanPatten is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: DickVanPatten (1928–2015), American actor Don VanPatten (born 1966), American politician...
DickVanPatten's Natural Balance Pet Foods is an American pet food manufacturer with its headquarters located in Burbank, Los Angeles, California. Established...
and Rick Moranis, with the supporting cast including Daphne Zuniga, DickVanPatten, George Wyner, Lorene Yarnell, and the voice of Joan Rivers. In addition...
instructional videos. It stars DickVanPatten, Caitlyn Jenner and Nicollette Sheridan. It was written by James VanPatten and directed by Jonathan Baker...
playing Tommy Bradford, one of the children of Tom Bradford (played by DickVanPatten), on the 1970s television series Eight Is Enough, TJ Latimer in Family...
directed by Jim Wynorsky, and starring Corey Haim, Alan Thicke, and DickVanPatten. A group of terrorists led by Luther take over a high school. Whilst...
Lauriette Paxton (Joan Hackett), a "runaway bride". She cheats a gambler (DickVanPatten) out of $400 and a ring. One night, a thief steals Davie's wallet (which...
Nicholas). The father, Tom Bradford (based on Tom Braden, played by DickVanPatten), is a newspaper columnist for the fictional Sacramento Register. His...
Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman, Ron Carey, Howard Morris, and DickVanPatten, it satirizes such Hitchcock films as Vertigo, Spellbound, Psycho,...
of riding in cars with strangers. Charlene Tilton as Julie Thurston DickVanPatten as Herb Thurston Katherine Helmond as Elaine Thurston Katy Kurtzman...
Bissell as Governor Henry C. Santini Celia Lovsky as the Exchange Leader DickVanPatten as Usher #1 The screenplay was based on Harry Harrison's novel Make...
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