Vincent Van Patten

Vincent Van Patten

Birth : 1957-10-17, Bellerose, New York, U.S.

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Vincent Van Patten

Movies

7 Days to Vegas
Producer
Inspired by a true story about Hollywood big shots who will bet on anything.
7 Days to Vegas
Writer
Inspired by a true story about Hollywood big shots who will bet on anything.
7 Days to Vegas
Duke
Inspired by a true story about Hollywood big shots who will bet on anything.
The Guest House
Abe
When a single dad rents the GUEST HOUSE of a wealthy bachelor, he soon discovers his new landlord's generosity does not come without a price.
Deal
Himself
As an ex-gambler teaches a hot-shot college kid some things about playing cards, he finds himself pulled into the world series of poker, where his protégé is his toughest competition.
Backyard Dogs
ZZ Nash
Two teenage boys aspire to win a backyard wrestling championship and a chance to appear on a national TV show.
When Billie Beat Bobby
Lornie Kuhle
The historic 1973 tennis match between middle-aged champion Bobby Riggs and young feminist Billie Jean King.
How's Your News?
Himself
A Documentary chronicling the travels of a team of reporters and crew across America in a hand painted RV. Each of the reporters have a disability ranging from Down's Syndrome to spastic cerebal palsy and their own style for gathering news. The basic approach is "man on the street" reporting and the interactions are sometimes hysterical, sometimes confusing but always honest.
The Break
Producer
A depressed and destitute Nick Irons, a tennis pro banned from the tour for slugging a player during a TV match, agrees to coach a bookie's "head case" son, Joel, who wants to turn pro. The bookie wants his son to get out of tennis and contracts Nick to discourage him. Nick begins to do that but after an episode with his old flame, Jennifer, and after seeing the kid's determination he decides to teach him all the tricks, both physical and psychological, of the trade. The two battle the kids of a famous coach, unfair refs., injuries, travel all over the southern US, while Nick tries to woo his love back, finally to reach the big championship tennis match where all is resolved in dramatic fashion.
The Break
Writer
A depressed and destitute Nick Irons, a tennis pro banned from the tour for slugging a player during a TV match, agrees to coach a bookie's "head case" son, Joel, who wants to turn pro. The bookie wants his son to get out of tennis and contracts Nick to discourage him. Nick begins to do that but after an episode with his old flame, Jennifer, and after seeing the kid's determination he decides to teach him all the tricks, both physical and psychological, of the trade. The two battle the kids of a famous coach, unfair refs., injuries, travel all over the southern US, while Nick tries to woo his love back, finally to reach the big championship tennis match where all is resolved in dramatic fashion.
The Break
Nick Irons
A depressed and destitute Nick Irons, a tennis pro banned from the tour for slugging a player during a TV match, agrees to coach a bookie's "head case" son, Joel, who wants to turn pro. The bookie wants his son to get out of tennis and contracts Nick to discourage him. Nick begins to do that but after an episode with his old flame, Jennifer, and after seeing the kid's determination he decides to teach him all the tricks, both physical and psychological, of the trade. The two battle the kids of a famous coach, unfair refs., injuries, travel all over the southern US, while Nick tries to woo his love back, finally to reach the big championship tennis match where all is resolved in dramatic fashion.
Camp Fear
Professor Mark Hamilton
Some sorority sisters opt for camping in the woods with a handsome professor instead of going to Palm Springs for spring break. However, the orgy is interrupted when some druids appear and decide they need to sacrifice the sisters to prevent the apocalypse at the start of the new millennium.
The Ultimate Spring Break
Vince
SPRING BREAK! 200,000 college students head for the coast to relax and party during their break from classes and they turn this stretch of beach into a 24 hour party zone. Vince (VINCE VAN PATTEN) and his Girlfriend Chris (RENEE NORTON) are all set to enjoy a week together but Vince's roommates have a totally different idea!
The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission
Ronnie Webber
Learning of a Nazi plot to attack Washington, D.C. with a deadly nerve gas, Major Wright leads twelve convicts on a suicide mission deep into occupied France to destroy the secret factory where the poison is made.
Hell Night
Seth
Four college pledges are forced to spend the night in a deserted old mansion where they get killed off one by one by the monstrous surviving members of a family massacre years earlier for trespassing on their living grounds.
This Time Forever
Matt Kramer
A young American hockey player, studying in Canada on a hockey scholarship, falls in love while risking his scholarship and the prospect of the Vietnam war draft.
Survival Run
Chip
A group of teenagers drive out into the desert in search of sex, beer, and general good times. When their van breaks down, they find a group of prospectors who welcome the kids and offer them a place to stay until they can get help. It soon becomes evident, however, that there is more to these prospectors than they claim, and soon the teens are fleeing for their lives.
Rock 'n' Roll High School
Tom Roberts
A group of rock-music-loving students, with the help of the Ramones, take over their school to combat its newly installed oppressive administration.
James at 15
Rip Lindeman
A 15-year-old whose family moves from Oregon to Boston misses the girlfriend he left behind, so he runs away to see her. On the way he hooks up with a female art student in her 20s who is also hitchhiking across the country, from whom he learns some valuable lessons about life. This was the pilot film for the two-season series.
Rooster: Spurs of Death!
Wyatt
70's drama about a cock fighter and his son and the goings on of the cockfighting industry.
Chino
Jamie Wagner
Chino Valdez is a loner horse breeder living in the old west. Partly a loner by choice, and partly because, being a 'half-breed', he finds himself unwelcome almost everywhere he goes. One day, a young runaway named Jimmy shows up at his door looking for work and a roof over his head. Reluctantly, Chino agrees to take him in and teach him the art of raising, breaking and breeding horses, until the pair finally begin to accept each other.
Charley and the Angel
Willie Appleby
Charley is a workaholic family man that finds out from an angel that his "number's up" and he will be dying soon so he tries to change his ways and be a better husband and father with the time he has left.
The Last of the Curlews
Mark (voice)
After being hunted to near-extinction, the last male Eskimo curlew searches for a mate while making the annual migration from the arctic tundra to the nesting grounds in Argentina.
The Bravos
Peter Harkness
The commander of an isolated frontier cavalry post tries to stop an Indian war and find his son, who has been kidnapped.
Dial Hot Line
Stevie
The head of a psychiatric telephone hotline inspires his associates to get out of the office and into the streets to help people with psychiatric problems.