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Dick Van Dyke Celebrates 100th Birthday Today (Original Post) bigtree Dec 2025 OP
Happy Birthday!! 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 LetMyPeopleVote Dec 2025 #1
Your favorite performance...? cbabe Dec 2025 #2
Beautiful tribute... bsiebs Dec 2025 #9
I love this... 2naSalit Dec 2025 #10
Watching a marathon now FHRRK Dec 2025 #30
Happy Birthday Mr. Van Dyke. n/t iluvtennis Dec 2025 #3
Happy Birthday. Loved your show and movies. debm55 Dec 2025 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author jfz9580m Dec 2025 #5
Can't post his birthday enough. Had to see if he ever played a bad guy. twodogsbarking Dec 2025 #6
IIRC, he played a villain on Diagnosis: Murder too nuxvomica Dec 2025 #13
He played a doctor on Scrubs who was a tad shady. Collimator Dec 2025 #16
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Mr. Van Dyke!! Many Happy Returns! I loved Chitty Chitty Bang Bang! littlemissmartypants Dec 2025 #7
Happy birthday Mr. Van Dyke! virgdem Dec 2025 #8
Long May You Run, Mr. Van Dyke! Rhiagel Dec 2025 #11
A chimney sweep's lucky as lucky can be! Festivito Dec 2025 #12
me ole bamboo. :) AllaN01Bear Dec 2025 #26
Congrats malaise Dec 2025 #14
Well, Allow Me To Share This... GB_RN Dec 2025 #15
Correctly formatted pic below. You do not use the link button, which is only used to insert a hyperlink into text. Celerity Dec 2025 #23
PBS American Masterpiece - Dick Van Dyke Pas-de-Calais Dec 2025 #17
If you can find the PBS American Masters TNNurse Dec 2025 #18
Brilliant Show! Mr.Bee Dec 2025 #28
I was born in 1955 BidenRocks Dec 2025 #19
Here's what he's been up to lately... (CNN) Pluvious Dec 2025 #20
He came home to Danville, Illinois in 1962, and Emile Dec 2025 #21
My birthday too yay! Love him. live love laugh Dec 2025 #22
Happy Birthday Mr Van Dyke! La Coliniere Dec 2025 #24
"" AllaN01Bear Dec 2025 #25
Happy birthday!! 🎂🎁🎊 debsy Dec 2025 #27
Happy birthday 🎈🎂 MustLoveBeagles Dec 2025 #29
He is a gift to ALL of us, everywhere! calimary Dec 2025 #31
So happy to see he made it to 100, yay for him! blue_jay Dec 2025 #32
Happy Birthday "Rob Petrie" 🎂 Clouds Passing Dec 2025 #33
Forever among the best Rocknation Dec 2025 #34

2naSalit

(102,817 posts)
10. I love this...
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 02:09 PM
Dec 2025

Makes me tear up! And I know I'm going to cry when he does leave us.


But my favorite(s) ...the entire catalogue of The Dick Van Dyke Show.

FHRRK

(1,410 posts)
30. Watching a marathon now
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 11:16 PM
Dec 2025

Thought I had seen them all, three shows in and already found one I somehow missed.

Response to bigtree (Original post)

twodogsbarking

(18,791 posts)
6. Can't post his birthday enough. Had to see if he ever played a bad guy.
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 01:39 PM
Dec 2025

Key Villain Roles:
Columbo ("Negative Reaction," 1974): He played a manipulative photographer who murders his wife, a role so against type that audiences were shocked, with some even confronting him in public.
Matlock (1986): Van Dyke portrayed a judge who was secretly a cold-blooded killer, a character he enjoyed playing because it was so genuinely bad.

nuxvomica

(14,094 posts)
13. IIRC, he played a villain on Diagnosis: Murder too
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 02:13 PM
Dec 2025

A villain who looked just like his doctor character! The "evil twin" trope.

Collimator

(2,123 posts)
16. He played a doctor on Scrubs who was a tad shady.
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 02:49 PM
Dec 2025

His character was affable but stuck in his ways. He wasn't willing to learn new medical techniques and risked his patients' health with his stubbornness.

littlemissmartypants

(33,649 posts)
7. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Mr. Van Dyke!! Many Happy Returns! I loved Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 01:40 PM
Dec 2025

And his smile! He's so inspiring.

I would really love to live to 100.

Thanks, bigtree.

🎁🎄❤️

virgdem

(2,318 posts)
8. Happy birthday Mr. Van Dyke!
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 01:42 PM
Dec 2025

May you celebrate many more to come. I'm a huge fan of all that you have done.

Festivito

(13,891 posts)
12. A chimney sweep's lucky as lucky can be!
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 02:10 PM
Dec 2025

Chim chimeny Chim chimeny chim chim cheroo
Good luck will wear off if I shake posts with you!
Show me a gif and that's lucky too!

Celerity

(54,427 posts)
23. Correctly formatted pic below. You do not use the link button, which is only used to insert a hyperlink into text.
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 07:51 PM
Dec 2025

To correctly post a pic, just copy and paste the image URL.



TNNurse

(7,541 posts)
18. If you can find the PBS American Masters
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 03:09 PM
Dec 2025

about him, it is quite good. We found it last night in the middle, started recording it so we could go to bed and ended up watching until the end.

BidenRocks

(3,273 posts)
19. I was born in 1955
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 03:15 PM
Dec 2025

My entire life had Dick Van Dyke. 😃

I was glad he finally made it around the ottoman without wiping out.

Happy Birthday Dick! The OG DVD!

Emile

(42,300 posts)
21. He came home to Danville, Illinois in 1962, and
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 04:10 PM
Dec 2025

I got to shake his hand. Danville is very proud of Dick Van Dyke.

Danville High-school newspaper

La Coliniere

(1,936 posts)
24. Happy Birthday Mr Van Dyke!
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 08:02 PM
Dec 2025

The Dick Van Dyke Show will forever remain one of my top 3 favorite sitcoms of all time. It was wit personified. Glad he made this monumental milestone.

debsy

(947 posts)
27. Happy birthday!! 🎂🎁🎊
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 09:44 PM
Dec 2025

You have made me laugh and brought joy to my life whenever I saw you. Thank you for being such an inspirational and influential person on so many of our lives.

calimary

(90,052 posts)
31. He is a gift to ALL of us, everywhere!
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 11:27 PM
Dec 2025

Happy Birthday, Dick Van Dyke!!!

And congratulations on hitting a milestone THIS BIG!!!

He’s brought smiles and cheery feelings to more millions of people than it’s possible to count. And for such a good long run!

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