Thursday, December 18, 2025

ACTING! (The Christmas Sweater Performance)

Christmas is the season for gifting and receiving...and Yuletide themed sweaters are among the top favorite gifts exchanged between family and friends. If you are a good actor, you will wear your Xmas sweater with phony but very convincing pride!

Saturday, December 13, 2025

DICK VAN DYKE IS 100 YEARS OLD TODAY!


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.
(From WIKIPEDIA)









Van Dyke often spoke of his admiration for silent film era comedians such as Buster Keaton and his hero Stan Laurel



Van Dyke had a chance to do his Stan Laurel impression on the Dick Van Dyke Show with Henry Calvin portraying Oliver Hardy.






With Nancy Kwan and Walt Disney



THE COMIC (1969) with Michele Lee and Mickey Rooney


A NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM (2006) with Mickey Rooney and Bill Cobbs










 
FITZWILLY, WHAT A WAY TO GO!, THE ART OF LOVE, DIVORCE AMERICAN STYLE, MARY POPPINS, CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG, NEVER A DULL MOMENT, BYE BYE, BIRDIE,  LT. ROBIN CRUSOE U.S.N.


COLUMBO - With Peter Falk and JoAnna Cameron in "Negative Reaction".
Peter Falk as Lt. Columbo and Dick Van Dyke as Paul Galesko


With Peter Falk, years after starring together in the Columbo episode "Negative Reaction

  


Barbara Bain, Patrick MacNee, Robert Culp, Robert Vaughn and Dick Van Dyke in
DIAGNOSIS MURDER



Dick Van Dyke reached the ripe old age of 100 on December 13th, 2025!