Dick Van Patten
Year Title Role
1963 Violent Midnight Police Lt. Palmer
1967 The Secret Dream Models of Oliver Nibble Oliver Nibble
1968 Charly Bert
1971 Zachariah The Dude
1971 Making It Warren
1972 Beware ! The Blob Scoutmaster Adleman
1972 Joe Kidd Hotel Manager
1972 Dirty Little Billy Berle 's customer
1972 Snowball Express Mr. Carruthers
1973 Soylent Green Usher # 1
1973 Westworld Banker
1973 Superdad Ira Kushaw
1974 Heidi in the Mountains
1975 The Strongest Man in the World V.P . Harry Crumply
1976 Treasure of Matecumbe The Gambler
1976 Gus Cal Wilson
1976 The Shaggy D.A Raymond
1976 Freaky Friday Harold Jennings
1977 High Anxiety Dr. Wentworth
1979 Nutcracker Fantasy King Goodwin
Filmography -- Film
Richard Vincent Van Patten (December 9, 1928 - June 23, 2015) was an American actor, businessman, and animal welfare advocate, whose career spans seven decades of television. He was best known for his role as patriarch Tom Bradford on the ABC television comedy-drama 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 and Spaceballs, and Charlton Heston's Soylent Green. Van Patten was the founder of Natural Balance Pet Foods and National Guide Dog Month.