Dick Van Dyke
Gender: Male
Born: 13th December 1925 (currently 86 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: The Van Dyke Show, Diagnosis: Murder, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The New Dick Van Dyke Show, The Carol Burnett Show, Jake and the Fatman, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Becker, New Comedy Showcase, The Phil Silvers Show, The Bill Cosby Show, Columbo, Coach, The Golden Girls, Supertrain, Airwolf, Highway to Heaven, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Matlock, The United States Steel Hour, Diagnosis: Murder, Diagnosis: Murder, Scrubs, The Phil Silvers Show, Donald Duck's 50th Birthday, Van Dyke and Company, Murder 101
Movies: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Curious George, Dick Tracy, Mary Poppins, Night at the Museum, Bye Bye Birdie, The Art of Love, Never a Dull Moment, Fitzwilly, Cold Turkey, A Twist of the Knife, Lt. Robin Crusoe USN, The Comic, What a Way to Go!, Batman: New Times, Divorce American Style, The Runner Stumbles, The Gin Game, Wrong Way Kid, Mary Poppins, The Comic, Some Kind of a Nut, The Morning After, Drop-Out Father, Diagnosis of Murder, Robert Young and the Family, Ghost Of A Chance, Breakfast with Les and Bess, The House on Sycamore Street, Strong Medicine, Tubby the Tuba, The Town Santa Forgot, The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited, Diagnosis Murder:Without Warning, A Town Without Pity, College Can Be Murder, The Caretaker 3D, If Wishes Were Horses, Murder 101: New Age, The Fabulous Fifties
Richard Wayne "Dick" Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer with a career spanning six decades. He is the older brother of Jerry Van Dyke and father of Barry Van Dyke. Van Dyke starred in the films Bye Bye Birdie, Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and in the TV series The Dick Van Dyke Show and Diagnosis: Murder. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Blvd.
Van Dyke was born in West Plains, Missouri, to Loren (nickname "Cookie") and Hazel (born McCord) Van Dyke, but he grew up in Danville, Illinois. He is the older brother of actor Jerry Van Dyke, who is best known for his role on the TV series Coach. His grandson, Shane Van Dyke, is also an actor, and directed Titanic II. He is of Dutch descent on his father's side. His mother, as a Mayflower descendant, is of English extraction but also carries additional Scottish ancestry.
During World War II, he enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps where he became a radio announcer and served in Special Services entertaining troops in the Continental United States. While Van Dyke appeared at the Chapman Park Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, he and
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