{"id":75613,"date":"2015-06-23T14:49:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T19:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=75613"},"modified":"2015-06-23T14:59:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T19:59:07","slug":"actor-dick-van-patten-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=75613","title":{"rendered":"Actor Dick Van Patten passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/vanpattendick.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-75614\" alt=\"vanpattendick\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/vanpattendick.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; Dick Van Patten, the genial comic actor best known as the patriarch of TV&#8217;s &#8220;Eight is Enough,&#8221; has died, according to his publicist Daniel Bernstein.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0Variety reports he passed away Tuesday morning at Saint John&#8217;s Hospital in Santa Monica, Calif. due to complications from diabetes.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He was 86.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Born in New York, the veteran entertainer began his career as a child actor performing on the stage and on TV during its infancy.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But his greatest success was as Tom Bradford, a middle-aged widower and father of eight children who met and married Abby, played by Betty Buckley. The ABC comedy-drama aired from 1977-1981.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Van Patten&#8217;s film roles included &#8220;Spaceballs,&#8221; &#8220;The Santa Trap&#8221; and &#8220;Soylent Green.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 His many TV appearances included, &#8220;I Remember Mama,&#8221; \u00a0&#8220;Love, American Style,&#8221; &#8220;The Love Boat&#8221; and, most recently, &#8220;Hot in Cleveland.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; Dick Van Patten, the genial comic actor best known as the patriarch of TV&#8217;s &#8220;Eight is Enough,&#8221; has died, according to his publicist Daniel Bernstein. \u00a0 \u00a0Variety reports he passed away Tuesday morning at Saint John&#8217;s Hospital in Santa Monica, Calif. due to complications from diabetes.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":75615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75613"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75621,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75613\/revisions\/75621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}