Dick Van Patten
Gender: Male
Born: 9th December 1928 (currently 83 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Eight Is Enough, The New Dick Van Dyke Show, When Things Were Rotten, The Chisholms, Mama, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, S.W.A.T., Young Doctor Malone, The Partners, WIOU, Living in TV Land
Movies: Demolition High, High Anxiety, The Shaggy D.A., Big Brother Trouble, Charly, Spaceballs, The Midnight Hour, Groom Lake, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Zachariah, Soylent Green, Westworld, Freaky Friday, The Graduates of Malibu High, Roller Boogie, The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking, Gus, Love Is All There Is, The Strongest Man in the World, Violent Midnight, Once in a Lifetime: Just Go for It, Sarah's Choice, Evasive Action, An Angel on Abbey Street, Nightmare Boulevard, First Dog, Snowball Express, A Memory of Two Mondays, Opposite Day, Dirty Tennis, Y2K – World in Crisis, According to Dom, The Real James Dean, Superdad, You'll Never Amount to Anything, Nutcracker Fantasy
Richard Vincent "Dick" Van Patten (born December 9, 1928) is an American actor, best known for his role as patriarch Tom Bradford on the television sitcom Eight is Enough. He 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 later starred in numerous television roles including the long running CBS television series, I Remember Mama and Young Dr. Malone. Later, he would star or co-star in many feature films including Mel Brooks' Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Charlton Heston's Soylent Green and the Academy Award winning Charly.
Van Patten was born in Kew Gardens, New York, the son of Josephine Rose (née Acerno), an Italian American who worked in advertising, and Richard Byron Van Patten, a Dutch American interior decorator. He began work as a model and actor as a child making his Broadway debut at the age of seven. He was successful on the New York stage, appearing in a dozen theatrical plays before reaching his teen years.He later moved to Hollywood and began a lengthy career in film and television.
Van Patten's career in showbiz began as a child actor on Broadway in 1937 in The Eternal Road as Dickie Van
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