Happy birthday Dick Van Dyke @iammrvandy 🎂
📷 With Mary Tyler Moore in a great portrait by Philippe Halsman, 1964
"I just hit my marks and hope I think of something. I'm strictly a superficial actor."
Dick Van Dyke & Michael J. Pollard outside the theatre where they starred in the original 1960 Broadway production of Bye Bye, Birdie.
@NYPL digital collection photograph
Mary Tyler Moore, Dick Van Dyke, Carl Reiner & Richard Deacon at the 1964 Emmy Awards.
So many Emmys!
📷 Gene Lester
Carl Reiner runs a table read for The Dick Van Dyke Show, December 2, 1963. 158 episodes over 5 seasons. The show won 15 Emmys.
📷 Earl Theisen
Another Earl Theisen shot of a Dick Van Dyke Show table read, December 2, 1963. So many funny people around this table, all at work adding lustre to the comic vision of Carl Reiner.
Another great portrait by Philippe Halsman, 1964
Mary Tyler Moore, Dick Van Dyke & Carl Reiner
Dick Van Dyke rides Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in the London Easter Parade at Battersea Park
📷 Bela Zola, April 14, 1968
The Dick Van Dyke Show, 1961-69
In a 2015 interview Van Dyke said "I’d still be doing the show if they let me. It was the most fun I’ve ever had."
Another photo by Earl Theisen from the set of The Dick Van Dyke Show, 1963
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