By James Robert Shaw (The Wind up Geek)

Dick Van Patten who played the father of the Bradford family on the television series Eight is Enough has died. He was 86. Both Budd Burton Moss, Patten’s longtime agent and his publicist Daniel Bernstein, have confirmed his death. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Patten was ill for some time and passed away in a hospital in Santa Monica, California.
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