Dick Van Patten, 'Eight Is Enough' father, dies at 86,Dick Van Patten, the apparently universal performing artist maybe best referred to for his featuring part as the father on the 1970s arrangement "Eight Is Enough," has kicked the bucket. He was 86.
Budd Burton Moss, Van Patten's long-lasting operators, affirmed his passing.
"He had been sick for quite a while," Moss said.
The on-screen character passed on Tuesday morning at a Santa Monica, California, healing center, as indicated by The Hollywood Reporter.
Van Patten, a previous youngster performer, was a well known face on motion picture and TV screens for a considerable length of time, backpedaling to the late '40s show "Mother," in view of the play and film "I Remember Mama."
He was a successive visitor star and periodic consistent, showing up on shows running from the police show "Exposed City" to the sitcom "I Dream of Jeannie" to the parody treasury "Love, American Style." He showed up in three Mel Brooks motion pictures, numerous advertisements, had many character parts and acted in such movies as "Charly" (1968) and "Westworld" (1973) - also a few Broadway plays.
"I've presumably had a bigger number of employments than some other performing artist living," he told a Los Angeles site, The Pet Press, in 2006. (He was additionally a pet sustenance big shot, having established Dick Van Patten's Natural Balance Pet Foods.)
In any case, he presumably had his greatest notoriety with "Eight Is Enough" in which he played Tom Bradford, a Sacramento, California, daily paper writer with eight youngsters. The arrangement was in light of a book by Thomas Braden, a columnist and political dissident who later facilitated the first cycle of CNN's "Crossfire."Though the arrangement kept little of Braden's life, his manner and affection for his youngsters reverberated with Van Patten.
"Tom Bradford was all that much like me," he told the Academy of American Television. "His family started things out. His profession was second. It was the same with me."
Van Patten and his wife, Pat, had three children, Nels, James and Vincent, every one of whom went into acting. His sister, Joyce Van Patten, is likewise an on-screen character, and his stepbrother, Timothy, is an extremely popular chief who has supervised scenes of "The Sopranos" and "Promenade Empire."
"Eight Is Enough" kept running for four seasons, from 1977 to 1981. Amid its run, Van Patten was likewise an intermittent visitor on "The Love Boat."
Executive Mel Brooks was partial to Van Patten, who showed up in three Brooks film comedies: "High Anxiety" (1979), "Spaceballs" (1987) and "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" (1993). That was his second appearance in a Brooks-drove Robin Hood task: He'd played Friar Tuck in Brooks' brief Robin Hood TV arrangement, "When Things Were Rotten."
"It's incredible. It's similar to a diversion," he said on meeting expectations with Brooks. "It's not care for work. He keeps you snickering the entire day on the set."
Van Patten distributed a diary, "Eighty Is Not Enough," in 2009.
Budd Burton Moss, Van Patten's long-lasting operators, affirmed his passing.
"He had been sick for quite a while," Moss said.
The on-screen character passed on Tuesday morning at a Santa Monica, California, healing center, as indicated by The Hollywood Reporter.
Van Patten, a previous youngster performer, was a well known face on motion picture and TV screens for a considerable length of time, backpedaling to the late '40s show "Mother," in view of the play and film "I Remember Mama."
He was a successive visitor star and periodic consistent, showing up on shows running from the police show "Exposed City" to the sitcom "I Dream of Jeannie" to the parody treasury "Love, American Style." He showed up in three Mel Brooks motion pictures, numerous advertisements, had many character parts and acted in such movies as "Charly" (1968) and "Westworld" (1973) - also a few Broadway plays.
"I've presumably had a bigger number of employments than some other performing artist living," he told a Los Angeles site, The Pet Press, in 2006. (He was additionally a pet sustenance big shot, having established Dick Van Patten's Natural Balance Pet Foods.)
In any case, he presumably had his greatest notoriety with "Eight Is Enough" in which he played Tom Bradford, a Sacramento, California, daily paper writer with eight youngsters. The arrangement was in light of a book by Thomas Braden, a columnist and political dissident who later facilitated the first cycle of CNN's "Crossfire."Though the arrangement kept little of Braden's life, his manner and affection for his youngsters reverberated with Van Patten.
"Tom Bradford was all that much like me," he told the Academy of American Television. "His family started things out. His profession was second. It was the same with me."
Van Patten and his wife, Pat, had three children, Nels, James and Vincent, every one of whom went into acting. His sister, Joyce Van Patten, is likewise an on-screen character, and his stepbrother, Timothy, is an extremely popular chief who has supervised scenes of "The Sopranos" and "Promenade Empire."
"Eight Is Enough" kept running for four seasons, from 1977 to 1981. Amid its run, Van Patten was likewise an intermittent visitor on "The Love Boat."
Executive Mel Brooks was partial to Van Patten, who showed up in three Brooks film comedies: "High Anxiety" (1979), "Spaceballs" (1987) and "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" (1993). That was his second appearance in a Brooks-drove Robin Hood task: He'd played Friar Tuck in Brooks' brief Robin Hood TV arrangement, "When Things Were Rotten."
"It's incredible. It's similar to a diversion," he said on meeting expectations with Brooks. "It's not care for work. He keeps you snickering the entire day on the set."
Van Patten distributed a diary, "Eighty Is Not Enough," in 2009.
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