# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dick-van-patten
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:31:55.742Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dick-van-patten"
name: "Dick Van Patten"
slug: "dick-van-patten"
description: "Richard Vincent Van Patten was an American actor, comedian, businessman, and animal welfare advocate whose career spanned seven decades of television. He was best known for his role as patriarch Tom Bradford on the television series Eight Is Enough."
tagline: "American actor (1928–2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DickVanPattenApr10.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1928-12-09"
deathDate: "2015-06-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.522804
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0887694"
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    title: "Dick Van Patten"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump