Acting
Throughout the 1970s, child actor Vincent Van Patten guest-starred in over three dozen classic television series including Bonanza, The High Chaparral, Medical Center, Adam-12, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, Wonder Woman and a variety of television movies. At the age of sixteen, he was cast in Apple's Way, a CBS drama series in which he played the son of an architect who leaves the big city to rear his family in rural Appleton, Iowa.
In the fall of 1975, Van Patten, at eighteen, appeared in the role of John Karras in a 12-week CBS drama series Three for the Road, with Alex Rocco as his father, Pete Karras, and Leif Garrett as his younger brother, Endy Karras. The story line is that of a father and two sons, grief stricken over the death of their wife and mother sell their house, buy a recreational vehicle, and roam throughout the United States.
Three years later, Van Patten co-starred in The Bionic Boy, a two-hour ABC attempted spinoff of the popular Lee Majors vehicle, The Six Million Dollar Man that never went to series. In 1978, he starred in the cult film classic, Rock 'n' Roll High School. He starred in several other films in the 1970s and 1980s, including Yesterday as a Vietnam war veteran with Cloris Leachman and Eddie Albert, and costarred with Linda Blair in the slasher film Hell Night. More recently, he starred, wrote and produced in The Break distributed by Lions Gate with Martin Sheen, and directed the feature film The Flunky with Farrah Fawcett. He is currently the host and commentator of the World Poker Tour going in to season ten for Fox Sports and is also the host of Celebrity Tennis for the Tennis Channel.
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