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Dick Van Dyke smiling, wearing glasses, a gray blazer, and a dark turtleneck, at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. Dick Van Dyke: A Life in Pictures Dick Van Dyke smiling and leaning his arms on the back of a red chair, wearing a black sweater over a white collared shirt, against a yellow background. Bye Bye Birdie
Watch episode 31 of The Dick Van Dyke Show from 1962
Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke stand together in a kitchen, with Moore looking skeptical and Van Dyke gesturing toward her hand, in a scene from The Dick Van Dyke Show. Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins and Dick Van Dyke as Bert stand together in colorful costumes, surrounded by animated lambs in a live-action animation scene from Mary Poppins. Mickey Rooney, Dick Van Dyke, and Bill Cobbs in matching janitor uniforms stand with mops in front of a large, jagged hole in a museum wall, with a painted seascape behind them. Dick Van Dyke, Sally Anne Howes, Adrian Hall, and Heather Ripley wave from the winged car Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on a country road, in a scene from the 1968 film. Dick Van Dyke: A Life in Pictures
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  • Patricia Bauer
    Pat Bauer graduated from Ripon College in 1977 with a double major in Spanish and Theatre. She spent most of the next 42 years working as a copy editor and editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: PBS - American Masters - Dick Van Dyke. Sep 26, 2026
Anniversary information added. Dec 09, 2025
Add new Web site: CBC - Dick Van Dyke talks ageing, death and why he can't stop dancing. Aug 23, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - Radio 1’s All Day Breakfast with Greg James - Dick Van Dyke Eating Brown Sauce On A DJ Set. Jul 12, 2025
Add new Web site: CBS News - Dick Van Dyke: Forever young. Apr 25, 2025
Questions and answers added. Mar 14, 2025
First paragraph modernization. May 01, 2024
Add new Web site: New Netherland Institute - Richard Wayne (Dick) van Dyke [1925]. Apr 16, 2024
Media added. Oct 06, 2023
Media added. Aug 03, 2023
Media added. Mar 22, 2023
Add new Web site: AllMovie - Dick Van Dyke. Oct 18, 2022
Corrected display issue. Jun 08, 2021
Noted that he received a Kennedy Center Honor. Jun 04, 2021
Added the movie Mary Poppins Returns (2018). Dec 19, 2018
Article thoroughly revised. Sep 05, 2018
Add new Web site: Television Encyclopedia - Dick Van Dyke. Nov 28, 2016
Noted the release of Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014). Dec 19, 2014
Added photograph. May 29, 2013
Add new Web site: Turner Classic Movies - Dick Van Dyke. Jul 11, 2011
Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of Dick Van Dyke. Jul 11, 2011
New article added. Apr 28, 2009
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