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Dick Van Dyke
1 FOLLOWER • 53 CREDITS • DEC 13, 1925 • 98
Biography
Richard Wayne Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925) is an American actor, entertainer, and comedian. His award-winning career has spanned seven decades in film, television, and stage. Van Dyke is the recipient of multiple awards, including a Golden Globe, Tony, Grammy, a Daytime Emmy, and four Primetime Emmys. He was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1995 and the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2012. He was honored with the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2013, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2021 and was recognized as a Disney Legend.
Van Dyke began his career as an entertainer on radio and television, in nightclubs, and on the Broadway stage. In 1961, he starred in the original production of Bye Bye Birdie, a role which earned him the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. Carl Reiner then cast him as Rob Petrie on the CBS television sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show from 1961 to 1966, which made him a household name. He went on to star in the movie musicals Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Mary Poppins (1964), and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), and in the comedy-drama The Comic (1969).
Van Dyke also made guest appearances on television programs Columbo (1974) and The Carol Burnett Show (1977), and starred in The New Dick Van Dyke Show (1971–74), Diagnosis: Murder (1993–2001), and Murder 101 (2006–08). Van Dyke has also made appearances in the films Dick Tracy (1990), Curious George (2006), Night at the Museum (2006), Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014), and Mary Poppins Returns (2018).
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Known For
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The Ed Sullivan Show
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The Simpsons
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Tony Awards
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Airwolf
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Matlock
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
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What's My Line?
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Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
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The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
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Jake and the Fatman
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Columbo
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Tonight Starring Jack Paar
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents
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The Carol Burnett Show
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Becker
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The Golden Girls
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The Masked Singer
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Kidding
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Days of Our Lives
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The Middle
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The New Scooby-Doo Movies
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The Bill Cosby Show
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The Danny Kaye Show
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Scrubs
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The Emmy Awards
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Inside Comedy
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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
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The Oscars
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Mary Poppins Returns
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Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
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The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
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Supertrain
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CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years
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Curious George
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The Secret Squirrel Show
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The Fabulous Fifties
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Van Dyke and Company
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Buttons
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If You're Not In The Obit, Eat Breakfast
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Night at the Museum
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Mary Poppins
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Walt: The Man Behind the Myth
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Carol Burnett and Friends
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Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious: The Making of 'Mary Poppins'
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Drop-Out Father
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The Van Dyke Show
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
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The Dick Van Dyke Show
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Diagnosis: Murder
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The New Dick Van Dyke Show
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Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
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