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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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Dick Van Dyke, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Dick Van Dyke, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known For
The Ed Sullivan Show
Tony Awards
The Simpsons
Airwolf
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
What's My Line?
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Jake and the Fatman
Columbo
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Carol Burnett Show
Becker
The Golden Girls
The Masked Singer
Matlock
Kidding
Days of Our Lives
The Middle
Inside Comedy
The New Scooby-Doo Movies
The Bill Cosby Show
The Danny Kaye Show
Scrubs
The Emmy Awards
Supertrain
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
The Oscars
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
Mary Poppins Returns
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
The Secret Squirrel Show
CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years
Curious George
The Fabulous Fifties
Van Dyke and Company
Buttons
If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast
Night at the Museum
Walt: The Man Behind the Myth
Mary Poppins
Carol Burnett and Friends
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious: The Making of 'Mary Poppins'
Diagnosis: Murder
The New Dick Van Dyke Show
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Van Dyke Show
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
Drop-Out Father
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Production Credits
Diagnosis: Murder
Van Dyke and Company
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