Richard Wayne Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925) is an American actor and comedian. His work spans screen and stage, and his awards include six Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and a Tony Award. He was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1993, and then the Television Hall of Fame in 1995. He was recognized as a Disney Legend in 1998. He has been honored with the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2013, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2020. He first gained recognition on radio and Broadway, then he became known for his role as Rob Petrie on the Carl Reiner created CBS tv sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961 – 1966), Mary Tyler Moore, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Larry Mathews, and Richard Deacon.
He made his film debut in George Sidney’s Bye Bye Birdie (1963), with Janet Leigh, Ann-Margret, Maureen Stapleton, Bobby Rydell, Jesse Pearson, and Ed Sullivan. Other early movies include J. Lee Thompson’s What a Way to Go! (1964), with Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin, Gene Kelly, and Bob Cummings; Robert Stevenson’s Mary Poppins (1964), with Julie Andrews, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Karen Dotrice, Matthew Garber, Elsa Lanchester, Arthur Treacher, Reginald Owen, and Ed Wynn; and Norman Jewison’s The Art of Love (1965), with James Garner, Elke Sommer, Angie Dickinson, and Ethel Merman.
Films in the mid to late 1960s include Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N. (1966), with Nancy Kwan; Bud Yorkin’s Divorce American Style (1967), with Debbie Reynolds, Jason Robards, Jean Simmons, and Van Johnson; Delbert Mann’s Fitzwilly (1967), with Barbara Feldon, John McGiver, and Edith Evans; Jerry Paris’s Never a Dull Moment (1968), with Edward G. Robinson, Dorothy Provine, Henry Silva, Slim Pickens, and Jack Elam; Ken Hughes’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), with Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Gert Fröbe, Anna Quayle, Benny Hill, James Robertson Justice, Robert Helpmann, Heather Ripley, and Adrian Hall; and Garson Kanin’s Some Kind of Nut (1969), with Dickinson, Rosemary Forsyth, Zohra Lampert, Elliott Reid, and Dennis King.
Films in the late 1960s and 1970s include The Comic (1969), with Michele Lee and Mickey Rooney; Norman Lear’s Cold Turkey (1971), with Pippa Scott, Tom Poston, Edward Everett Horton, Bob Elliott, Ray Goulding, Bob Newhart, Vincent Gardenia, and Barnard Hughes; a voice role in Tubby the Tuba (1975), with Pearl Bailey, Ruth Enders, Jack Gilford, Hermione Gingold, Ray Middleton, Jane Powell, Cyril Ritchard, and David Wayne; and Stanley Kramer’s The Runner Stumbles (1979), with Kathleen Quinlan, Maureen Stapleton, Tammy Grimes, Beau Bridges, and Ray Bolger.
Later film roles include Dick Tracy (1990), with Warren Beatty (who also directed), Madonna, Glenne Headly, Charlie Korsmo, Dustin Hoffman, James Keane, Charles Durning, William Forsythe, Seymour Cassel, Paul Sorvino, Mandy Patinkin, Catherine O’Hara, Ed O’Ross, James Caan, James Tolkan, Michael J. Pollard, Henry Silva, R.G. Armstrong, and Estelle Parsons; a voice role in Curious George (2006), with Frank Welker, Will Ferrell, Drew Barrymore, David Cross, Eugene Levy, and Joan Plowright; Shawn Levy’s Night at the Museum (2014), with Ben Stiller, Carla Gugino, Rooney, Bill Cobbs, Robin Williams, Owen Wilson, Steve Coogan, and Rami Malek; Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014), with much of the returning cast plus Dan Stevens and Ben Kingsley; Rob Marshall’s Mary Poppins Returns (2018), with Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer, Julie Walters, Angela Lansbury, Colin Firth, Meryl Streep, and David Warner; and Buttons: A Christmas Tale (2018), with Ioan Gruffudd, Jane Seymour, Roma Downey, Abigail Spencer, with narration by Robert Redford and Kate Winslet.
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- Bye Bye Birdie (1963) – directed by George Sidney
- What a Way to Go! (1964) – directed by J. Lee Thompson
- Mary Poppins (1964) – directed by Robert Stevenson
- The Art of Love (1965) – directed by Norman Jewison
- Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N. (1966) – directed by Byron Paul
- Divorce American Style (1967) – directed by Bud Yorkin
- Fitzwilly (1967) – directed by Delbert Mann
- Never a Dull Moment (1968) – directed by Jerry Paris
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) – directed by Ken Hughes
- Some Kind of a Nut (1969) – directed by Garson Kanin
- The Comic (1969) – directed by Carl Reiner
- Cold Turkey (1971) – directed by Norman Lear
- The Morning After (1974) – directed by Richard T. Heffron – TV movie
- Tubby the Tuba (1975) -directed by Alexander Schure
- The Runner Stumbles (1979) – directed by Stanley Kramer
- The Country Girl (1982) – directed by Gary Halvorson & Michael Montel – TV movie
- Drop-Out Father (1982) – directed by Don Taylor – TV movie
- Found Money (1983) – directed by Bill Persky – TV movie
- Breakfast with Les and Bess (1985) – directed by Perry Rosemond – TV movie
- Strong Medicine (1986) – directed by Guy Green – TV movie
- Ghost of a Chance (1987) – directed by Don Taylor – TV movie
- Dick Tracy (1990) – directed by Warren Beatty
- Daughters of Privilege (1991) – directed by Michael Fresco – TV movie
- Diagnosis Murder: Diagnosis of Murder (1992) – directed by Christopher Hibler – TV movie
- Diagnosis Murder: The House on Sycamore Street (1992) – directed by Christian I. Nyby II – TV movie
- Diagnosis Murder: A Twist of the Knife (1993) – directed by Jerry London – TV movie
- Walt: The Man Behind the Myth (2001) – directed by Jean-Pierre Isbouts – narrator – documentary
- Diagnosis Murder: Town Without Pity (2002) – directed by Christopher Hibler – TV movie
- Diagnosis Murder: Without Warning (2002) -directed by Christian I. Nyby II – TV movie
- The Gin Game (2003) – directed by Arvin Brown – TV movie
- Batman: New Times (2005) – directed by Jeffery Scheetz – short
- Murder 101 (2006) – directed by Christian I. Nyby II – TV movie
- Curious George (2006) – directed by Matthew O’Callaghan
- Night at the Museum (2006) – directed by Shawn Levy
- Murder 101: College Can Be Murder (2007) – directed by John Putch – TV movie
- Murder 101: The Locked Room Mystery (2007) – directed by David S. Cass Sr. – TV movie
- Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014) – directed by Miguel Arteta – uncredited cameo
- Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014) – directed by Shawn Levy
- Merry Xmas (2015) – directed by Boman Modine – short
- Life Is Boring (2016) – directed by Chip Godwin
- Trollz (2016) – directed by Ron Thornton
- If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast (2017) – directed by Danny Gold – himself – documentary
- Gilbert (2017) – directed by Neil Berkeley – himself – documentary
- The Great Buster: A Celebration (2018) – directed by Peter Bogdanovich -himself – documentary
- Mary Poppins Returns (2018) – directed by Rob Marshall
- Buttons: A Christmas Tale (2018) – directed by Tim Janis
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