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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).
4 days ago · Dick Van Patten’s acting legacy lives on through his family. His sons, Vincent and James, followed in their father’s footsteps and pursued careers in the entertainment industry. They have appeared in various television shows and movies, carrying on the Van Patten name.
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.
- Eight Is Enough – All The Openings
- Dallas V Eight Is Enough – Family Feud
- The Love Boat – The Great Stellini
- Spaceballs
- Gettin’ Lubed with George Jefferson
- Do It Debbie’s Way!
For some this video will be like swallowing a box of madeleines. Here are the openings of every season of Eight is Enough, plus some reunion specials as a chaser. This is what television looked like when there weren’t too many options.
While the supreme court surely made a great many important decisions in 1978, was there anything that rocked the country quite like Dallas v Eight is Enough on Family Feud? Richard Dawson, America’s creepy uncle, smooched his way through the casts of both of these fine programs, then set them head to head in a battle of poll-based trivia.
Dick Van Patten was a guest on Aaron Spelling’s ocean-set soap opera The Love Boat six times (seven if you count The Love Boat: The Next Wave, but who would?). He tried different characters on for size, but 1983’s magician The Great Stellini who disapproves of his daughter marrying a upstart illusionist (who might be trying to steal his secrets!) i...
In 1987, Van Patten appeared in Mel Brooks’ sci-fi spoof Spaceballs as King Roland of Druidia. (That made his daughter, played by Daphne Zuniga, a Druish Princess.) Here he is screaming his lines off of cue cards to great effect, in a funny scene with Rick Moranis as Dark Helmet and Brooks breaking the fourth wall by accidentally “turning off the m...
Unafraid to play off nostalgia, here’s DVP and Sherman Hemsley, television’s George Jefferson, shilling for auto maintenance in the 1990s.
We’ll miss you Dick Van Patten, and we’ll always remember you putting down that ice cream cone and doing calisthenics with Debbie Reynolds.
In his two-hour interview, Dick Van Patten (1928-2015) discusses the beginning of his acting career, performing in 27 Broadway shows from the time he was just seven years old.
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Jun 23, 2015 · Richard Vincent Van Patten was born Dec. 9, 1928, in Kew Gardens, New York. Before he was ten, he was acting on Broadway in the Max Reinhardt spectacle The Eternal Road.
