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That truly fun to watch, twice!! Lot of nostalgia there too! He's a true entertainer.

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Funny guy! A true comic legend! 

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He turns 99 this Friday, December 13. He also was forced to evacuate the Malibu fires this past week. He didn't incur any damage to his house but did lose a cat that got away from him. Evidently some neighbors helped him up after he fell and trained garden hoses on his house that helped save it.

 

Glad he's still with us and Happy Birthday!

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Not a lot of people have a lot going for them in their 90's [ health wise ], Dick certainly appears to be one of the exceptions

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i will admit i liked him in most everything he fid but i most recall mary tyler moore show and movie cold turkey about quitting smoking , saw others but enjoyed less 

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From a FB group 

 

The scene in "Mary Poppins" (1964) where Mr. Dawes, Sr. (Dick Van Dyke) has trouble negotiating the step in the bank's meeting room was not originally in the script. While viewing a make-up test for Van Dyke in the projection room, Walt Disney saw him entertaining crew members on the test film between takes with some comic routines, amongst them the "stepping-down" routine of an old man trying to step off a curb without hurting himself. The test film not only convinced Disney to cast Van Dyke as Mr. Dawes, Sr., but he specifically requested that crew members build a six-inch riser on the board room set so Van Dyke could do the stepping-down routine.

 

When Van Dyke first read the script, he'd already been cast in the role of Bert, but found the part of the Mr. Dawes, Sr. so hysterical he lobbied Disney for the role, even offering to play it for free. Disney not only made Van Dyke audition for the part, but forced him to make a substantial donation to CalArts, Disney's own pet-project film school.

 

In an interview for the anniversary of the film, Van Dyke said that, while on breaks when filming with his old man makeup, he would regularly prank the tourists on the Disneyland back lot tour by flagging the bus and then running pass by them at full speed.

 

Although Van Dyke considers this the best movie in which he has appeared, he nevertheless maintains to this day that he was somewhat miscast as Bert. He has suggested that either Jim Dale or Ron Moody would have played the part better. On an episode of National Public Radio's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" (broadcast October 25, 2010), when asked by host Peter Sagal about his notorious accent in this movie, Van Dyke stated that his vocal coach was Lancashire-born J. Pat O'Malley, who had an even worse Cockney accent. 

 

“People in the UK love to rib me about my accent, I will never live it down... they ask what part of England I was meant to be from and I say it was a little shire in the north where most of the people were from Ohio.” (IMDb/The Guardian)

 

Happy Birthday, Dick Van Dyke!

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