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

2naSalit

(99,493 posts)
10. I love this...
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 01:09 PM
Yesterday

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

(1,339 posts)
30. Watching a marathon now
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 10:16 PM
17 hrs ago

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

twodogsbarking

(17,334 posts)
6. Can't post his birthday enough. Had to see if he ever played a bad guy.
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 12:39 PM
Yesterday

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

(13,841 posts)
13. IIRC, he played a villain on Diagnosis: Murder too
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 01:13 PM
Yesterday

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

Collimator

(2,067 posts)
16. He played a doctor on Scrubs who was a tad shady.
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 01:49 PM
Yesterday

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

(31,226 posts)
7. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Mr. Van Dyke!! Many Happy Returns! I loved Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 12:40 PM
Yesterday

And his smile! He's so inspiring.

I would really love to live to 100.

Thanks, bigtree.

🎁🎄❤️

virgdem

(2,291 posts)
8. Happy birthday Mr. Van Dyke!
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 12:42 PM
Yesterday

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

Festivito

(13,835 posts)
12. A chimney sweep's lucky as lucky can be!
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 01:10 PM
Yesterday

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

(53,410 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, 06:51 PM
20 hrs ago

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



TNNurse

(7,473 posts)
18. If you can find the PBS American Masters
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 02:09 PM
Yesterday

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

(2,659 posts)
19. I was born in 1955
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 02:15 PM
Yesterday

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

(40,075 posts)
21. He came home to Danville, Illinois in 1962, and
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 03:10 PM
Yesterday

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

Danville High-school newspaper

La Coliniere

(1,713 posts)
24. Happy Birthday Mr Van Dyke!
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 07:02 PM
20 hrs ago

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

(738 posts)
27. Happy birthday!! 🎂🎁🎊
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 08:44 PM
18 hrs ago

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

(88,752 posts)
31. He is a gift to ALL of us, everywhere!
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 10:27 PM
17 hrs ago

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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