{"id":60986,"date":"2025-12-13T20:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T20:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/comedy-icon-dick-van-dyke-celebrates-turning-100-i-still-try-to-dance\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T20:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T20:57:11","slug":"comedy-icon-dick-van-dyke-celebrates-turning-100-i-still-try-to-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/comedy-icon-dick-van-dyke-celebrates-turning-100-i-still-try-to-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedy icon Dick van Dyke celebrates turning 100: &#8220;I still try to dance&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Actor and comedic icon Dick Van Dyke is 100 years young today.<\/p>\n<p>The famed star sang and danced his way into America&#8217;s heart through his illustrious career that has spanned nearly eight decades.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the celebration this weekend, theaters across the country are showing a new documentary about his life, &#8220;Dick Van Dyke: 100th Celebration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Van Dyke&#8217;s work helped define a generation. He became one of the biggest actors of his era with the eponymous show &#8220;The Dick Van Dyke Show,&#8221; which ran for five years on CBS.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/12\/13\/94d3bcf1-0b88-4dfd-98ce-361c76b7192b\/thumbnail\/620x492\/e6d0e5b82dd4eb43ea6d5c707828d42c\/gettyimages-2715539.jpg#\" alt=\"Van Dyke &amp; Moore In 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' \" height=\"492\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/12\/13\/94d3bcf1-0b88-4dfd-98ce-361c76b7192b\/thumbnail\/620x492\/e6d0e5b82dd4eb43ea6d5c707828d42c\/gettyimages-2715539.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/12\/13\/94d3bcf1-0b88-4dfd-98ce-361c76b7192b\/thumbnail\/1240x984\/1e4261941485495c9c103241d7871b32\/gettyimages-2715539.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">American actor Dick Van Dyke sits on a couch and points at  American actor Mary Tyler Moore who is seated across from him in a still from the television series, &#8216;The Dick Van Dyke Show,&#8217; circa 1961.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS Photo Archive \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Early in his career, Van Dyke was quoted as saying he wanted to make films his children could watch. And he got his dream when Walt Disney cast him in &#8220;Mary Poppins&#8221; \u2013 bad cockney accent and all \u2013 alongside the incomparable Julie Andrews. He also appeared in the equally kid-friendly &#8220;Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, I could have been James Bond. When Sean Connery left, the producer said, &#8216;Would you like to be the next Bond?&#8217; I said, &#8216;Have you heard my British accent?&#8217; Click! That&#8217;s a true story!&#8221; Van Dyke told <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/dick-van-dyke-forever-young\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">CBS Sunday Morning in 2023<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/12\/13\/83444da7-2c9a-4080-bd16-095dafce831b\/thumbnail\/620x496\/4f663ea5909eede0e74386f1fa0e4fe0\/gettyimages-57643988.jpg#\" alt=\"Chim Chiminey \" height=\"496\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/12\/13\/83444da7-2c9a-4080-bd16-095dafce831b\/thumbnail\/620x496\/4f663ea5909eede0e74386f1fa0e4fe0\/gettyimages-57643988.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/12\/13\/83444da7-2c9a-4080-bd16-095dafce831b\/thumbnail\/1240x992\/5eaf93cd4d79dd08759b7be6bdb138e8\/gettyimages-57643988.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Dick Van Dyke as Bert, Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins, Karen Dotrice as Jane Banks and Matthew Garber (1956 &#8211; 1977) as Michael Banks in the Disney musical &#8216;Mary Poppins&#8217;, directed by Robert Stevenson, 1964.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Silver Screen Collection \/ Hulton Archive \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During his career, Van Dyke won four Primetime Emmy Awards, a Tony Award and a Grammy Award. He was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Just last year, he became the oldest winner of a Daytime Emmy, for a guest role on the soap &#8220;Days of Our Lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;I&#8217;ll be darned. I think I&#8217;m the last of my generation. I&#8217;m 98. I have \u2014 almost \u2014 all my marbles. I can&#8217;t remember what I had for breakfast,&#8221; he told Entertainment Tonight before his win.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/12\/13\/6453b427-79c0-4aa6-80d9-e239a5ea38fa\/thumbnail\/620x430\/0900a39ea60bc6e8905a4c25174b73d9\/ap25347532513977.jpg#\" alt=\"Dick Van Dyke \" height=\"430\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/12\/13\/6453b427-79c0-4aa6-80d9-e239a5ea38fa\/thumbnail\/620x430\/0900a39ea60bc6e8905a4c25174b73d9\/ap25347532513977.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/12\/13\/6453b427-79c0-4aa6-80d9-e239a5ea38fa\/thumbnail\/1240x860\/1f756c7ca65a4197ec247f8183c89870\/ap25347532513977.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Dick Van Dyke accepts the award for outstanding guest performance in a daytime drama series for &#8220;Days of our Lives&#8221; during the 51st Daytime Emmy Awards on Friday, June 7, 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                AP Photo\/Chris Pizzello, File<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Van Dyke, who is just an Oscar shy of the elusive EGOT title, said he would love a shot at the Academy Award.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope it&#8217;s not posthumous,&#8221; he joked.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1970s, Van Dyke found sobriety after battling alcoholism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m on my third generation,&#8221; he told CBS Sunday Morning in 2023. &#8220;I&#8217;m getting letters from little kids, and that is what I love, that they watch the movies over and over. I&#8217;m getting so much more mail today than I did during the heyday of my career.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now that he has hit triple digits, Van Dyke said he&#8217;s gotten some perspective on how he used to play older characters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, I played old men a lot, and I always played them as angry and cantankerous,&#8221; he told <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/GMA\/Culture\/dick-van-dyke-prepares-turn-100-im-lucky\/story?id=128322788\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ABC News<\/a>\u00a0ahead of his milestone birthday. &#8220;It&#8217;s not really that way. I don&#8217;t know any other 100-year-olds, but I can speak for myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/12\/13\/7e320025-8b78-46de-bd43-2c8e0bfc2396\/thumbnail\/620x414\/97ef3bb64d9c07938d501ba719e3e32e\/gettyimages-2158483445.jpg#\" alt=\"Carol Burnett Hand And Footprint In The Cement Ceremony At TCL Chinese Theatre \" height=\"414\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/12\/13\/7e320025-8b78-46de-bd43-2c8e0bfc2396\/thumbnail\/620x414\/97ef3bb64d9c07938d501ba719e3e32e\/gettyimages-2158483445.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/12\/13\/7e320025-8b78-46de-bd43-2c8e0bfc2396\/thumbnail\/1240x828\/2abfd582620ecf4e325ce642218f67bd\/gettyimages-2158483445.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Dick Van Dyke and Arlene Silver attend Carol Burnett&#8217;s Hand and Footprint in the Cement Ceremony at TCL Chinese Theatre on June 20, 2024 in Hollywood, California.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Monica Schipper \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He has long credited his wife, 54-year-old makeup artist and producer Arlene Silver, with keeping him young.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As I&#8217;ve said, if I had known I was gonna live this long, I would&#8217;ve taken better care of myself!&#8221; Van Dyke told CBS Sunday Morning. &#8220;Yeah, &#8217;cause I went through that whole period of alcoholism. But my wife, God bless her, makes sure that I go to the gym three days a week and do a full workout.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Van Dyke was born in West Plains, Missouri, in 1925, and grew up &#8220;the class clown&#8221; in Danville, Illinois, while admiring and imitating the silent film comedians.<\/p>\n<p>Five years ago, while celebrating getting a <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/dick-van-dyke-kennedy-center-honors-career\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Kennedy Center Honor<\/a><\/span>, Van Dyke told CBS Mornings that he was looking forward to hitting the 100-year-old mark.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;George Burns made it, and I&#8217;m gonna do it too,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>And now, he told ABC News that he feels lucky about turning 100. 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