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Richard Wayne "Dick" Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer with a career spanning six decades. He is the older brother of Jerry Van Dyke and father of Barry Van Dyke. Van Dyke starred in the films Bye Bye Birdie, Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and in the TV series The Dick Van Dyke Show and Diagnosis: Murder. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Blvd.
Van Dyke was born in West Plains, Missouri, to Loren (nickname "Cookie") and Hazel (born McCord) Van Dyke, but he grew up in Danville, Illinois. He is the older brother of actor Jerry Van Dyke, who is best known for his role on the TV series Coach. His grandson, Shane Van Dyke, is also an actor, and directed Titanic II. He is of Dutch descent on his father's side, and his mother was a descendant of Mayflower passenger Peter Browne from England.
Actors: Emma Thompson (actress), Paul Trijbits (producer), Rachel Griffiths (actress), John H. Tobin (actor), Christine Langan (producer), Maria Olsen (actress), Bradley Whitford (actor), Kathy Baker (actress), Jason Schwartzman (actor), Andy McPhee (actor), Colin Farrell (actor), Paul Giamatti (actor), Tom Hanks (actor), Lori A. Balton (miscellaneous crew), Thomas Newman (composer),
Plot: When Walt Disney's daughters begged him to make a movie of their favorite book, P.L. Travers' "Mary Poppins," he made them a promise - one that he didn't realize would take 20 years to keep. In his quest to obtain the rights, Walt comes up against a curmudgeonly, uncompromising writer who has absolutely no intention of letting her beloved magical nanny get mauled by the Hollywood machine. But, as the books stop selling and money grows short, Travers reluctantly agrees to go to Los Angeles to hear Disney's plans for the adaptation. For those two short weeks in 1961, Walt Disney pulls out all the stops. Armed with imaginative storyboards and chirpy songs from the talented Sherman brothers, Walt launches an all-out onslaught on P.L. Travers, but the prickly author doesn't budge. He soon begins to watch helplessly as Travers becomes increasingly immovable and the rights begin to move further away from his grasp. It is only when he reaches into his own childhood that Walt discovers the truth about the ghosts that haunt her, and together they set Mary Poppins free to ultimately make one of the most endearing films in cinematic history.
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Um diddle diddle diddleum diddle ay
Because I was afraid to speak when
I was just a lad
My father gave me nose a tweakand told me I was bad
But then one day I learned a word
That saved me achin' nose
The biggest word I ever heard
And this is how it goes, Oh! Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Even though the sound of it
Is something quite atrocious
If you say it loud enough
You'll always sound precocious
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Um diddle diddle diddleum diddle ay
Um diddle diddle diddleum diddle ay
He traveled all around the world
And everywhere he went
He'd use his word and all would say"
There goes a clever gent"
When dukes and maharajas pass thetime of day with me
I say me special word and thenthey ask me out to tea
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Even though the sound of it
Is something quite atrocious
If you say it loud enough
You'll always sound precocious
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Um diddle diddle diddleum diddle ay
Um diddle diddle diddleum diddle ay
So when the cat has got your tongue
There's no need for dismay
Just summon up this word and then
You've got a lot to say
But better use it carefully or it couldchange your life ...