Dick Van Patten
Dick Van Patten was an American stage, film, and television actor, as well as a businessperson, born on December 9, 1928, in Queens, New York.
Van Patten was educated at the Professional Children's School. This educational background placed him in a professional context early in life, and he went on to pursue work across multiple performance disciplines. His occupations as a stage actor, film actor, and television actor reflected a range of activity that extended through different areas of performance.
In addition to his acting work, Van Patten held an occupation as a businessperson, demonstrating that his professional life extended beyond performance. He also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a concrete recognition of his work as an actor. The combination of stage, film, television, and business activities marked the breadth of his professional engagements.
Van Patten died on June 23, 2015, in Santa Monica, California. The consistent thread running through his working life was his engagement with acting across its three distinct formats — stage, film, and television — carried out in the English language within the United States.
Quotes by Dick Van Patten
People don’t like to feed live mice and rats to their snakes. Now we have a regular meat food that they will eat. Ninety percent of the snakes will eat this food and love it.
I’ve seen people that don’t treat their animals well and yet their animals are still just as loving to them even though they’re not treated that well. It’s very hard to find that kind of loyalty and love and affection in human beings.
The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals. Once they’re your friends, you can do no wrong.
I come from New York originally, but Californians have been wonderful about animals. These animals are so nice and so good and so sweet and intelligent. It's a crime not to help them.
I remember how my mom would take me on the subway from Queens to Broadway. We'd go to the offices of casting agents. Many doors were slammed in our faces. I was just a boy, but I remember that well.