WASHINGTON – He was a familiar face for years on television.

Now, actor Dick Van Patten has died at 86.

Variety reports he died Tuesday morning at Saint John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, California, due to complications from diabetes.

Van Patten is best known for his role in the ’80s series “Eight is Enough,” where he played Tom Bradford, the father of eight children.

He also guest starred in “The Love Boat,” “I Dream of Jeannie,” “Sanford and Son,” “The Six Million Dollar Man,” “Murder, She Wrote” and “The Facts of Life.”

On the silver screen, he was best known in the Mel Brooks spoof comedies “High Anxiety,” “Space Balls” and “Robin Hood: Men in Tights.”

He was 86.