American Masters Celebrates Dick Van Dyke’s 100th Birthday with Star-Studded Documentary. Starring Dick Van Dyke explores how the prolific performer became a star on stage, television and film for nearly eight decades.

Starring Dick Van Dyke chronicles the star’s career over eight decades, beginning with his stint as a radio DJ and slapstick nightclub act and through his breakthrough television gigs and movie roles. In addition to his memorable work, the documentary features rare and never-before-seen footage and performance clips, as well as new, exclusive interviews with Julie Andrews, Carol Burnett, Jim Carrey, Ted Danson, Steve Martin, Conan O’Brien, Martin Short and more. Also featured are archival interviews with Van Dyke’s former costars and colleagues, including Walter Cronkite, Sheldon Leonard, Rose Marie, Mary Tyler Moore and Carl Reiner.

Van Dyke was born in 1925 in West Plains, Missouri and grew up in Danville, Illinois, where he participated in choir and drama club as a high school student. While he was a local radio DJ in Danville, Van Dyke formed a comedy duo with Phil Erickson called The Merry Mutes. They toured the nightclub circuit across America until Van Dyke launched his television career with various gigs around the country, including The CBS Morning Show, which he co-anchored with revered journalist Walter Cronkite.

During those early days, Van Dyke experienced both high and low points, but finally hit the big time with a successful run as Albert Peterson in the Broadway production of Bye Bye Birdie. However, believing that he wouldn’t be able to support his growing family with a career on the stage, Van Dyke kept searching for the ideal television vehicle to utilize his talents. In 1961, he landed his own sitcom, The Dick Van Dyke Show, which also starred comedy legend Mary Tyler Moore. He continued his Hollywood success in beloved classics such as the film adaptation of Bye Bye Birdie, Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Since then, Van Dyke has continued to reinvent himself in countless film and television roles, in both comedy and drama, including the lead role in the mystery series Diagnosis: Murder. He has won 6 Emmys (the most recent in 2024), one Grammy and one Tony Award.

Starring Dick Van Dyke [American Masters] (2025).mkv

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Andy (Pat Boone) is an arrogant pop singer about to be divorced by his wife (Barbara Eden) who treats his staff badly. On the same night he starts a job at a theater in Los Angeles his infant son is kidnapped. Despite requests from policeman Lieutenant Bonner (Jack Klugman), Paxton plays along with the kidnappers as they string him along even though they are willing to kill.

Such a rare film that this looks like it was projected on a wall and copied with a vhs videocamera, with the eventual dvdr made several vhs generations later. Someone bumped into the projector or camera a few times, so I had to recrop the frame and resize segments to match. Probably the worst video I’ve ever seen, but of course the seller rated the video quality as 8.5/10.
Anyway, cool to see (if you can see him) Pat Boone playing a more interesting role, even if there’s some showbiz caricature and some Shatner intensity. And it’s always nice to see an ex-cop bodyguard (Steve Forrest) manhandling a woman in a bar.

YellowCanary1963.mkv

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