{"id":37802,"date":"2015-06-24T15:40:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T06:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=37802"},"modified":"2015-06-24T15:40:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T06:10:37","slug":"vale-dick-van-patten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2015\/06\/24\/vale-dick-van-patten\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale &#8211; Dick van Patten"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37804\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37804\" style=\"width: 368px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-37804\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dick_Classic-568x720.jpg\" alt=\"Dick van Patten - 1928-2015\" width=\"368\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dick_Classic-568x720.jpg 568w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dick_Classic-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dick_Classic.jpg 1578w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dick van Patten &#8211; 1928-2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Veteran American actor and businessman, Dick van Patten, has passed away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr van Patten was best known for his television role in drama series <em>Eight Is Enough,<\/em> which ran between 1977 and 1981, but folks may not know he appeared in long-running series <em>Mama<\/em> (1949-1957) as well. Mr van Patten&#8217;s television credits are extensive; appearances in shows like <em>The Doris Day Show, Emergency!, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Love Boat<\/em>, and more recently <em>Family Guy, Arrested Development<\/em>, and <em>Hot In Cleveland<\/em>, are notable for his inclusion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr van Patten also appeared in a number of films, many for and with director Mel Brooks. <em>Spaceballs<\/em>, as Princess Vespa&#8217;s father, <em>High Anxiety<\/em>, as Mr Wentworth, and <em>Robin Hood: Men In Tights<\/em>, as well as films like <em>Joe Kidd<\/em>, <em>Soylent Green, Freaky Friday<\/em> (1976), and <em>The New Adventures Of Pippi Longstocking<\/em>, are among his cinematic credits.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dick van Patten passed away on June 23rd, aged 86.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37803\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37803\" style=\"width: 533px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37803\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/dick-van-patten-spaceballs-7.jpg\" alt=\"Dick van Patten (R) with Daphne Zuniga (L) in Mel Brooks' Spaceballs.\" width=\"533\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/dick-van-patten-spaceballs-7.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/dick-van-patten-spaceballs-7-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/dick-van-patten-spaceballs-7-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37803\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dick van Patten (R) with Daphne Zuniga (L) in Mel Brooks&#8217; Spaceballs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran American actor and businessman, Dick van Patten, has passed away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":37804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituary"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dick_Classic.jpg",1578,2000,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dick_Classic-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dick_Classic-237x300.jpg",237,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dick_Classic.jpg",640,811,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dick_Classic-568x720.jpg",568,720,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dick_Classic.jpg",1212,1536,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dick_Classic.jpg",1578,2000,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dick_Classic.jpg",1024,1298,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dick_Classic.jpg",268,340,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dick_Classic.jpg",19,24,false],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dick_Classic.jpg",38,48,false],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dick_Classic.jpg",76,96,false],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dick_Classic.jpg",118,150,false],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dick_Classic.jpg",237,300,false],"sow-carousel-default":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dick_Classic.jpg",144,182,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/category\/film-general\/obituary\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Obituary<\/a>","tag_info":"Obituary","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}