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Dick Van Dyke
Birth at
13 December 1925
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Popular Hollywood star Richard Wayne Van Dyke was born on December 13, 1925 in the American city of West Plains. His parents were from England. The family grew up an older brother, who later also became an actor. The boy from childhood dreamed of becoming an actor, participated in school amateur activities. During the First World War, he was drafted into the army, but due to poor health, he was recalled and began working on the radio. After the war, he went to Atlanta, where he participated in various
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Popular Hollywood star Richard Wayne Van Dyke was born on December 13, 1925 in the American city of West Plains. His parents were from England. The family grew up an older brother, who later also became an actor.
The boy from childhood dreamed of becoming an actor, participated in school amateur activities. During the First World War, he was drafted into the army, but due to poor health, he was recalled and began working on the radio. After the war, he went to Atlanta, where he participated in various entertainment shows on local television.
He made his screen debut in 1956 on The Phil Silver Show. A year later, Dick received an offer to participate in the Broadway production.
"Bye, birdie." For the role in which he received the Tony Award.
Next was the role of Robert Petrie in the play “The Dick Van Dyke Show”, for which the actor was nominated three times for an Emmy Award. In 1976, the series Van Dyke and Company was released with his participation. But the great success fell on the head of the actor in 1964 after the musical Mary Poppins. For the song in this production, he earned a Grammy Award, and also won a large army of fans. Supported his popularity musicals “What a way!” and “Pif-puff oop-oop”.
In the cinematic list of the actor - more than seventy roles in such films as "Comic", "After the morning", "Murder 101", "Night at the Museum", "Diagnosis: Murder", "Murder for beginners", "It's like that to go."
He lived with his wife, Margie Willett Dick, forty years, and then divorced. Four children were born in this marriage.