Vincent Van Patten (born October 17, 1957) is an American actor. He was born in Bellerose, New York.

He is the youngest son of actor Dick Van Patten and his wife, Pat, née Poole, a former June Taylor dancer. Van Patten was first urged into show business at age nine by his father’s agent. A commercial for Colgate toothpaste was followed by more than thirty other commercials before his father was cast in the TV series, Arnie, and moved his family from Long Island to Los Angeles.

Through the 1970s, the child actor 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 and a variety of television movies. At age 16, he was cast in Apple's Way, a CBS series in which he played the son of an architect who leaves the big city to raise his family in small-town Appleton, Iowa. Three years later, Van Patten co-starred in The Bionic Boy, a two-hour ABC spinoff of the popular Lee Majors vehicle, The Six Million Dollar Man. He also appeared in a 2 part episode "Mind Stealers from Outer Space" which aired on CBS 12/2/1977 and 12/9/1977 on Wonder Woman as Johnny, a college student whose body was taken over by an aliens from outer space. In 1978, he appeared in the cult classic, Rock 'n' Roll High School. He appeared in several other films in the 1970s and 1980s. More recently, he starred in, and directed, The Breakwww.imdb.com/title/tt0112574/, playing a washed-up tennis pro who coaches an up-and-coming young player.