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Dick Van Patten

Dick Van Patten, a stage and screen actor most famous for starring as loving father Tom Bradford on the television series “Eight is Enough,” has died, the Associated Press confirmed. He was 86.

Dick Van Patten, a stage and screen actor most famous for starring as loving father Tom Bradford on the television series “Eight is Enough,” has died, the Associated Press confirmed. He was 86.

  (Boris Yaro / Los Angeles Times)

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Dick Van Patten

Dick Van Patten and his wife, Patty, pose for photographs at the 80th birthday “Sahl-ute” to comic Mort Sahl in 2007 at Wadsworth Theater in Los Angeles.

  (Ann Johansson / Associated Press)

Dick Van Patten

Actor Dick Van Patten poses for photographers on the red carpet in 2006 before Comedy Central’s “Roast of William Shatner” in Los Angeles.

  (Rene Macura / Associated Press)

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Charles Durning stars as Elwood P. Dowd, left, and Dick Van Patten as William R. Chumley, M.D., in a 2003 stage production of “Harvey” at the Laguna Playhouse in Laguna Beach.

  (Glenn Koenig / Los Angeles Times)

Dick Van Patten

Actor-comedian Don Adams tells about a meeting with Johnny Carson on a plane while Dick Van Patten looks on in 1994.

  (Gerard Burkhart / Los Angeles Times)

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