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

COLUMBO - With Peter Falk and JoAnna Cameron in "Negative Reaction".

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

  

 

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

In The Royal Mood

The Second Elizabethan Era has come to an end. Since I was born one year before it began, I consider myself a part of that period. I am not British. I have no British blood in me. None of my ancestors were British (although my grandmother always claimed that her surname, which was Randolph, came from a British relative), and I have never set foot on any of the British Isles or territories. But since we are in the midst of total globalization, it is safe to assume that we are all part of the same earth community.

Anyway, using this flimsy excuse, I celebrate the ending of an era and the beginning of the new Carolean, Windsor or whatever this era will be called.