Actor and comedic icon Dick Van Dyke is 100 years younger in the present day.
The famed star sang and danced his approach into America’s coronary heart via his illustrious profession that has spanned practically eight many years.
As a part of the celebration this weekend, theaters throughout the nation are exhibiting a brand new documentary about his life, “Dick Van Dyke: one centesimal Celebration.”
Van Dyke’s work helped outline a era. He grew to become one of many largest actors of his period with the eponymous present “The Dick Van Dyke Present,” which ran for 5 years on CBS.
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Early in his profession, Van Dyke was quoted as saying he wished to make movies his kids might watch. And he acquired his dream when Walt Disney solid him in “Mary Poppins” – dangerous cockney accent and all – alongside the incomparable Julie Andrews. He additionally appeared within the equally kid-friendly “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.”
“Yeah, I might have been James Bond. When Sean Connery left, the producer stated, ‘Would you wish to be the following Bond?’ I stated, ‘Have you ever heard my British accent?’ Click on! That is a real story!” Van Dyke informed CBS Sunday Morning in 2023.
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Throughout his profession, Van Dyke gained 4 Primetime Emmy Awards, a Tony Award and a Grammy Award. He was inducted into the Tv Corridor of Fame in 1995.
Simply final 12 months, he grew to become the oldest winner of a Daytime Emmy, for a visitor function on the cleaning soap “Days of Our Lives.”
“I will be darned. I believe I am the final of my era. I am 98. I’ve — nearly — all my marbles. I am unable to bear in mind what I had for breakfast,” he informed Leisure Tonight earlier than his win.
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Van Dyke, who’s simply an Oscar shy of the elusive EGOT title, stated he would love a shot on the Academy Award.
“I hope it is not posthumous,” he joked.
Within the Nineteen Seventies, Van Dyke discovered sobriety after battling alcoholism.
“I am on my third era,” he informed CBS Sunday Morning in 2023. “I am getting letters from little youngsters, and that’s what I like, that they watch the films time and again. I am getting a lot extra mail in the present day than I did throughout the heyday of my profession.”
Now that he has hit triple digits, Van Dyke stated he is gotten some perspective on how he used to play older characters.
“You realize, I performed outdated males so much, and I all the time performed them as indignant and cantankerous,” he informed ABC News forward of his milestone birthday. “It is not likely that approach. I do not know some other 100-year-olds, however I can communicate for myself.”
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He has lengthy credited his spouse, 54-year-old make-up artist and producer Arlene Silver, with holding him younger.
“As I’ve stated, if I had identified I used to be gonna stay this lengthy, I might’ve taken higher care of myself!” Van Dyke informed CBS Sunday Morning. “Yeah, ‘trigger I went via that entire interval of alcoholism. However my spouse, God bless her, makes positive that I’m going to the health club three days per week and do a full exercise.”
Van Dyke was born in West Plains, Missouri, in 1925, and grew up “the category clown” in Danville, Illinois, whereas admiring and imitating the silent movie comedians.
5 years in the past, whereas celebrating getting a Kennedy Center Honor, Van Dyke informed CBS Mornings that he was trying ahead to hitting the 100-year-old mark.
“George Burns made it, and I am gonna do it too,” he stated.
And now, he informed ABC Information that he feels fortunate about turning 100. However what’s onerous about being 100?
“I miss motion,” he informed the outlet. “I’ve acquired one recreation leg from I do not know what.”
“I nonetheless attempt to dance,” he stated with amusing.
