RIP Dick Van Patten

R.I.P. My dear friend and surrogate father.... XOXOXOXOX the world will miss you...

- Willie Aames

Statement from Grant Goodeve

You know that there's at least 3 other threads about this, right OP?

OP = worse than Hitler and Cats.

He had a hot ass, but he couldn't live forever!

Aside from the Susan Richardson one, there isn't a single other DVP thread that I've caught on here. It's not even trending on the front page.

I think Dick deserves his own official thread.

"I will always remember Dick van Patten with great fondness. As every knows, he publicly referred to me on national television once as 'You know, the pretty one,' and it's not just because I was the best looking of the girls but also because I had the prettiest ways, and I respected him deeply for recognizing that. I will grieve for him as prettily as I have done everything else in my life, and I only hope that in heaven he can gaze upon my face with great joy, as he did in life."

--statement from Dianne Kay

Maybe this one, op? Are you still on the legacy site? If so maybe you need to move to the 21st century

"As the least memorable of the Bradford children, I think it's fair to say I was probably the last of us on Dick's mind at the hour of his death. Let's face it, he was much more likely to be thinking of even Lani O'Grady, who is dead, than he was to have thought of me. But I counted too: without me there would have just been Seven, and as we all know that would not have been Enough. And I could always be counted as 'The Talkative One.' I mourn the loss of a great man, who always told his children they must do things 'The Bradford Way' to the degree you wanted to kill him. And I will now go to live out the rest of my days in great obscurity, just as I have lived them previously."

--statement from Connie Needham

It's nice to know that new DL will also have 18 separate threads on the neath of a long ago TV actor.

18! Including "Dead to ME" and "iPod."

I'm not on the Legacy site R8. I'm on the recent one with the ignore button.

He was a spitter, wasn't he?

Somebody who followed the series needs to write a pretend obituary from the Sacramento paper he wrote for in the show. I've forgotten the names of the spouses in the reunion programs.

I'm really familiar with the show, but even I couldn't name the spouses from the reunion movies! The only ones I know are Merle the Pearl (Susan's husband), and Janet (David's wife). Although David and she divorced eventually, and he was marrying a different woman in one of the reunion movies. I remember this mainly because the sisters (except for Mary who was always level-headed) treated this new fiancee like shit.

Susan, aren't you embarrassed by this behavior?

Apparently, 86 was enough.

Best comb over in the business is gone.

NEXT!!

R7, LMAO!! bUT, I know Dianne Kay in real life and she is the nicest most genuine gal :)

I posted this in the iPod thread but that seems to have died so let me mention here-- he was related by blood or marriage to a bunch of showbiz people:

Joyce Van Patten

Martin Balsam

Talia Balsam

George Clooney

John Slattery

Vincent Van Patten

Tim Van Patten

Eileen Davidson

He might be dead but at least he's not toothless and living in a trailer in the woods.

Sad, but I much prefer Dick Masters in Ten is Enough.

My condoll- conedol- .... My sympathies to the Van Patten family. I was very sad to hear Dick had died. I was curious to learn if drugs were involved. Not like Dick was a crack whore like the Dad from "Alf" or anything. But I was thinking oxy, Percocet, Vicodin. You know the drill. If Dick was abusing painkillers, I'd like to know if the family is looking to unload. Every since Lani died, it's been hard to score. Maybe Susan could help me out, there's gotta be someone in her trailer park that deals.

Anyway, RIP Dick. Real sorry to hear about your death. But I'm really hoping you can hook a brutha up, even from beyond the great beyond.

Fuck you, Betty, you cunt.

OP is a cunt. Worse than Betty Buckley.

I know he was 86 but what did he die of? It isn't unusual especially now a days for people to live longer.

BTW, is Adam Rich gay? or bi?

He died of complications from diabetes and had been ill for a while.

He was great friends with Farrah Fawcett. They played tennis together when both were younger. Sad that he outlived her by about 25 years.

He was a very nice man, but I never cared for him as an actor at all.

He really was a horrible father. Most of those 8 kids ended up either dead, on the Blvd or in rehab.

Farrah Fawcett gave him ass cancer!!

Yet Dick Van Dyke lives on

dinah hynand is clapping

He only lived eight lives.