Dick Van Dyke

Richard Wayne Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925) is an American actor, comedian, writer, singer, and dancer, whose award-winning career has spanned seven decades in film, television and the theatre.

Van Dyke began his career as the host of the CBS Morning Show in 1955 for a year. He started his entertaining career on radio and the Broadway stage. In 1961 he starred in the original production of Bye Bye Birdie alongside Chita Rivera. A role which earned him the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. Carl Reiner then cast him as Rob Petrie on the CBS television sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-1966), which made him a household name. He went on to star in the musical films Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Mary Poppins (1964), and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) and the comedy The Comic (1969).

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