The incomparable Dick Van Dyke celebrated his 100th birthday on Saturday. The Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award winner was born in West Plains, Missouri, and grew up in Danville, Illinois. Over a career that made him a household name, Van Dyke earned praise for his comic timing, physicality and musical gifts on television, film and stage — most famously on The Dick Van Dyke Show and in films like Mary Poppins — and continued to perform and appear publicly well into his later years. Known for warm, energetic performances and a breezy, optimistic public persona, he has been celebrated by colleagues, fans and family as he reached his first century, a milestone marked by reflections on a long, influential career in entertainment. Jericka Duncan looks back on his first hundred years of life.
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