Dick Van Patten, a onetime juvenile star of Broadway, radio and TV who played the genteel patriarch on the hit 1970s comedy-drama “Eight Is Enough” and proved his versatility in Walt Disney fare and Mel Brooks parodies, died June 23 in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 86. The cause was complications from diabetes, said a family friend, Daniel Bernstein. Read more http://www.washingtonpost.com/enter...46b1e6-19b9-11e5-93b7-5eddc056ad8a_story.html
