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Dick Van Patten was a legendary American actor, comedian, businessman, and animal welfare advocate who had a prolific career spanning seven decades in television. He is best known for his role as the patriarch Tom Bradford on the hit series ‘Eight Is Enough’. Van Patten was also the founder of Natural Balance Pet Foods and National Guide Dog Month.
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Richard Vincent Van Pattenwas 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. 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.
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Dick Van Patten was an American actor, comedian, businessman, and animal welfare advocate who had a long and successful career in television, spanning seven decades.
Dick Van Patten was best known for his role as the patriarch Tom Bradford on the television series ‘Eight Is Enough’.
In addition to ‘Eight Is Enough’, Dick Van Patten starred in numerous other TV shows and films, including ‘Mama’, ‘Young Doctor Malone’, ‘Charly’, ‘Robin Hood: Men in Tights’, and ‘Soylent Green’.
Dick Van Patten was the founder of Natural Balance Pet Foods and National Guide Dog Month, in addition to his successful acting career.
Dick Van Patten was born on December 9, 1928 and passed away on June 23, 2015 at the age of 86.
15 Quotes by Dick Van Patten
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I come from New York originally, but Californians have been wonderful about animals. These animals are so nice and so good and so sweet and intelligent. It’s a crime not to help them.
Dick Van PattenAmerican actor (1928-2015)
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We’re feeding all these zoos. And that’s getting bigger and bigger.
Dick Van PattenAmerican actor (1928-2015)
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To be hungry must be awful.
Dick Van PattenAmerican actor (1928-2015)
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The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals. Once they’re your friends, you can do no wrong.
Dick Van PattenAmerican actor (1928-2015)
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I’ve seen people that don’t treat their animals well and yet their animals are still just as loving to them even though they’re not treated that well. It’s very hard to find that kind of loyalty and love and affection in human beings.
Dick Van PattenAmerican actor (1928-2015)
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People don’t like to feed live mice and rats to their snakes. Now we have a regular meat food that they will eat. Ninety percent of the snakes will eat this food and love it.
Dick Van PattenAmerican actor (1928-2015)
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I appreciate Eight is Enough. It made me recognizable.
Dick Van PattenAmerican actor (1928-2015)
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I love cats.
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I was a child actor in radio, and there’s not many of us left.
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- 10.
It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here.
Dick Van PattenAmerican actor (1928-2015)
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We donate a lot of food to rescue organizations.
Dick Van PattenAmerican actor (1928-2015)
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I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize.
Dick Van PattenAmerican actor (1928-2015)
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From the time I was 8 years old I was on almost every radio show there was.
Dick Van PattenAmerican actor (1928-2015)
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I’ve probably had more jobs than any other actor living.
Dick Van PattenAmerican actor (1928-2015)
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We waited until we perfected the dog food, and then we worked on the cat food. Even though it’s not going through the roof the way the dog food is, I think it will catch on eventually.
Dick Van PattenAmerican actor (1928-2015)