In 99 years, Dick Van Dyke He remains one of the favorite amusement of Hollywood entertainers, and he doesn't slow down yet.

The iconic contractor, known for its decades that stretch on television, film and theater, recently opened the joys and challenges of life during the hearty Q & A in the "Dick & Arlene van Dyke present Vandy Camp".

He joined his 53-year-old wife, Arlene Van Dyke, Dick Van Dyke reflected on the top of his closest friends, including ED's building icon.

Van Dyke and Ed Asner once planned to rewrite the "weird couple" before Asner passed in 2021. years.

"That would be so much fun and we lost it. I lost a lot of friends," he shared outside Dyke, toward People. Arlene added: "He supervised everything. It's a curse of life to almost 100."

When asked how to maintain such a positive look despite personal losses, Van Dyke simply replied, "Well, my life was good to me. I can't complain."

While originally rose to the Slav "The Dick Van Dyke Show", "A multitalent performer quickly moved to the Great screen, becoming the main office office in the 1960s.

He made his own film debut in the "Goodbye Bird" (1963), showing Albert Peterson in the adaptation of music music in Broadway, also starred on stage. His charming, neurotic appearance won with the competent and critics.

Only a year later, he starred as a passable chimney Bert (and aging banker Mr. Dawes Sr.) in Disney "Mary Poppine" (1964), versus Julie Andrews. While his coccinal accent was known, the physical comedy outside Dyke and the contagious energy made the role of unforgettable.

The film continued to conquer five academic awards and remains one of the most famous musicals of all time.

He followed that success with "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" (1968), playing the list of inventors Caractacus Potts in another mood family classically. The Ianian film inspired inspired may not have won the awards, but became a loved staple for generation, thanks to the part for a playful performance van Dykea and a film to remember film.

Incredible, Van Dyke continued to tend to engage well in his 90s. In 2018, in 93 years, he delighted the audience with the surprise of Cameo in "Mary Poppins returns," Dance at the top of the table as Mr. Dawes Jr., the performance that left lovers in fear and exit.

"I'm ham. I love it," he said People At the event in Malibu, California. "I get a blow from the audience."

Despite its wide career, Van Dyke never received the appointment of the academy, a failure that still distorts the discussion among critics and fans. However, his contribution to the entertainment did not paint and conquer other major prizes, including Tony Award, Grammy Award and Multiple Awards Emmy.

In 2013. year, he was honored for the rewards for the achievement of the screen, and in 2021. He received one of the highest cultural honors: Kennedy Center tribute.

These participation, and more, are declared in the two-group tributation of the CBS "Dick Van Dyke: 98 years of Magic"). Birthdays in December 2023, offered a cordial retrospective of an extraordinary career, which moved to its earliest television performances on their proposal Success on Broadway and in Hollywood.