Results: ** Dick Van Dyke ** American Actor, Singer, Dancer, Producer & Writer ** Winner of 23 Awards
Published on 12/22/2024
Dick Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925, West Plains, Missouri, U.S.) is an American actor and comedian known for his affable charm, comedic timing, and loose-limbed physical comedy. These traits contributed to the enduring popularity of the television show The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–66). Van Dyke grew up in Danville, Illinois, and was introduced to theatre while he was in high school. During World War II he served in the U.S. Army Air Forces, where he worked as a radio announcer and later performed in service shows. However, after his discharge in 1946, he opened an advertising agency in Danville. He began a career in show business only after that venture failed a year later.
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Dick Van Dyke was cast in the lead role as Albert Peterson in the original musical Bye Bye Birdie (1960–61). The show was a hit, winning Four Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and Van Dyke took the Tony for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. He later reprised the role for the 1963 film version. Have you seen...?
Bye Bye Birdie on Broadway
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Bye Bye Birdie (1963) Starring Dick Van Dyke and Janet Leigh
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Bye Bye Birdie a local musical production
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Bye Bye Birdie (1995) Jason Alexander & Vanessa Williams
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This black comedy opens with Louisa Foster donating a multimillion dollar check to the IRS. The tax department thinks she's crazy and sends her to a psychiatrist. She then discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich. Shirley MacLaine plays a a four-time widow? And what a cast: Dick Van Dyke at the height of his TV popularity; Paul Newman (one of the biggest movie stars of the 1960's); and veterans Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin, Robert Cummings and Gene Kelly, who won the LFF Best Actor Award 1964. Oh, the fantasy vignettes!! Have you seen "What a Way to Go"?
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"Mary Poppins" winner of 23 Awards including 5 Oscars: When Jane and Michael Banks are faced with the prospect of a new nanny, they are pleasantly surprised by the arrival of the magical Mary Poppins. Embarking on a series of fantastical adventures with her and her Cockney performer friend, Bert, they try to pass on some of her sunny attitude to their preoccupied parents. Have you seen "Mary Poppins"?
Mary Poppins (1964) Julie Andrews & Dick Van Dyke
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Mary Poppins Returns (2018) Emily Blunt & Dick Van Dyke
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Lt. Robin Crusoe is a navy pilot who bails out of his plane after engine trouble. He reaches a deserted island paradise where he builds a house, finds an abandoned submarine with lots of gadgets that he can use, and also finds a marooned chimp from the US Space program and a native girl named Wednesday who was exiled by her father. Wednesday thinks Crusoe wants to marry her, and when her father arrives on the island to collect her and Crusoe refused to marry her, chaos ensues. Have you seen "Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N.."?
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In New York City, Claude Fitzwilliam, Fitzwilly in familiar circumstances, is the chief butler, hence the head servant, in the household, and the confidante and administrator of wealthy, elderly Victoria Woodworth, or so she believes. What Miss Vicki is unaware of is that after her father passed leaving her presumably $10-20 million, he actually left her penniless, which Fitzwilly discovered. As such, Fitzwilly and all the other servants in the house, in their love for Miss Vicki, turned to a career of larceny in order to keep her in the lifestyle to which she is accustomed. Have you seen "Fitzwilly"?
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Eccentric inventor Caractacus Potts, his two children, and his beautiful lady friend, Truly Scrumptious, go on a picnic at the beach where they are soon whisked into a magical world of pirates, castles, and a flying car called Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. In the adventure that ensues, they journey to Vulgaria and encounter the evil tyrant Baron Bomburst and his child-hating wife, who kidnap Potts' children and steal Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. With the assistance of the kindly village toymaker, Potts plans an elaborate scheme to rescue the kidnapped children and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang from the Baron's castle on his birthday. have you seen "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"?
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