Comedy icon Dick Van Dyke celebrated his 100th birthday on Saturday, hitting the century mark some six decades after he sang and danced with Julie Andrews in \u201cMary Poppins\u201d and starred in his self-titled sitcom.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe funniest thing is, it\u2019s not enough,\u201d Van Dyke said in an interview with ABC News at his Malibu, California home. \u201cA hundred years is not enough. You want to live more, which I plan to.\u201d<\/p>\n
Van Dyke became one of the biggest actors of his era with \u201cThe Dick Van Dyke Show,\u201d which ran from 1961-66 on CBS; appeared with Andrews as a chimney sweep with a Cockney accent in the 1964 Disney classic \u201cMary Poppins\u201d and, in his 70s, played a physician-sleuth on \u201cDiagnosis: Murder.\u201d<\/p>\n
Also a Broadway star, Van Dyke won a Tony Award for \u201cBye Bye Birdie\u201d to go with a Grammy and four Primetime Emmys. In 1963, he starred in the film version of \u201cBye Bye Birdie.\u201d<\/p>\n
Just last year, he became the oldest winner of a Daytime Emmy, for a guest role on the soap \u201cDays of Our Lives.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the 1970s, he found sobriety after battling alcoholism, and spoke out about it at a time when that was uncommon to do.<\/p>\n
Now that he has hit triple digits, Van Dyke said he’s gotten some perspective on how he used to play older characters.<\/p>\n This May 25, 1964 file photo shows Dick Van Dyke, left, and Mary Tyler Moore, co-stars of “The Dick Van Dyke Show” backstage at the Palladium with their Emmys for best actor and actress in a series at the Television Academy’s 16th annual awards show, in Los Angeles. Credit: AP\/Anonymous<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n \u201cYou know, I played old men a lot, and I always played them as angry and cantankerous,\u201d he told ABC News. “It’s not really that way. I don’t know any other 100-year-olds, but I can speak for myself.”<\/p>\n He recently imparted wisdom about reaching the century mark in his book, \u201c100 Rules for Living to 100: An Optimist\u2019s Guide to a Happy Life.\u201d He credited his wife, 54-year-old makeup artist and producer Arlene Silver, with keeping him young.<\/p>\n \u201cShe gives me energy. She gives me humor, and all kinds of support,\u201d he told ABC News.<\/p>\n Van Dyke was born in West Plains, Missouri, in 1925, and grew up \u201cthe class clown\u201d in Danville, Illinois, while admiring and imitating the silent film comedians.<\/p>\n Julie Andrews, left, is joined by presenter Dick Van Dyke after accepting the 43rd annual life achievement award at the 13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, Jan. 28, 2007, in Los Angeles. Credit: AP\/Mark J. Terrill<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n He told ABC News he started acting when he was about 4 or 5 years old in a Christmas pageant. He said he was the baby Jesus.<\/p>\n \u201cI made some kind of crack, I don’t know what I said, but it broke the congregation up,” he said. “And I liked the sound of that laughter.\u201d<\/p>\n And what’s hard about being 100?<\/p>\n \u201cI miss movement,\u201d he told ABC News. \u201cI’ve got one game leg from I don’t know what.” <\/p>\n “I still try to dance,\u201d he said with a laugh.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.newsday.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Comedy icon Dick Van Dyke celebrated his 100th birthday on Saturday, hitting the century mark some six decades after he sang and danced with Julie Andrews in \u201cMary Poppins\u201d and starred in his self-titled sitcom. \u201cThe funniest thing is, it\u2019s not enough,\u201d Van Dyke said in an interview with ABC News at his Malibu, California […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2197735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[359676,21741,23032,21800,21913,307696],"class_list":["post-2197734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-ap-a-wire","tag-entertainment","tag-media","tag-music","tag-tv","tag-wires-bot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Affable-comedy-acting-legend-Dick-Van-Dyke-turns-100-years.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2197734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2197736,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197734\/revisions\/2197736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2197735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2197734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2197734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2197734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Julie](\"https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.newsday.com%2Fimage-service%2Fversion%2Fc%3AMzc1YzM0NDQtOGNhYy00%3AYzRiZjdkZDQtMGNiNy00%2Fcopy-of-dick-van-dyke-100th-birthday.jpeg%3Ff%3DLandscape%2B16%253A9%26w%3D768%26q%3D1&w=1920&q=80\"\/)