The only non-great thing in his career was his cockney accent in Mary Poppins.
I’ve been riding around this morning, running errands on my motorcycle, and as I’m going along I find myself humming the theme song for The Dick Van Dyke Show inside my helmet.
Crap. That means I gotta start so I can give them up too! 
I remember watching the Dick Van Dyke Show as a child in the 1960s and Mary Poppins as well. I did not watch his later show, but I have always regarded him as a modest, but very talented guy. It is amazing and wonderful that he has reached this milestone.
I suspect being a dancer has helped, DVD would do shows where everyone in the writers room would get to perform and I loved Morey Amsterdam and Rose Marie too. I know that getting sober and stopping smoking helped as well.
The theme of that show is now an earworm for me. I am not complaining!
Yes look for the show on PBS. It was American Masters series. It’s a great look at this man and his career. Well done.
I like “Fitzwilly”. It’s not his most successful. But it’s a fun romp.
TCM is having a Dick Van Dyke day. Yay!
One of my favorite Christmas movies, but yes, a little obscure.
My wife and I like lots of older (70s) TV shows. We like to check IMDB to see what happened to a lot of guest stars. There is a surprisingly large number who either are listed as being 45 at the time of the episode but look a sad 65, or those that died between 45 and 60 from emphysema, heart attack or stroke (and more rarely, liver failure).
Quit smoking, kids, those things will kill you!
This morning I watched an episode on my Roku. Fittingly, it was the episode where Rob inherits an antique desk from his elderly uncle, who lived to 100. Dick also played the uncle, doing his old man act in the old man makeup.
He’s more spry and sharp now that he’s actually 100 than he was when he was in his thirties pretending to be 100.
I’m glad he made it. Now, he just needs to live a bit longer to beat Jimmy Carter.
Few more years to beat Kirk Douglas and Olivia de Haviland.
I got to know Dick Van Dyke through watching Diagnosis Murder.
Sometime later, I saw Bye Bye Birdie. Part way through, I suddenly recognized him. (I feel like he’d felt familiar, without me having much expectation of sufficient familiary to know his name, just his face/voice.)
And a good person, too. Not a lot of Hollywood people are also good people.
I’m watching him in his old man makeup right now, in Mary Poppins on TCM. Yeah, he looked a lot older made up back then than he does in real life now.
So is he the fourth big Hollywood star to make it to 100 after Douglas, Havilland and Marie Saint or are there any others?
Bob Hope made 100.
George Burns of course.
Not a star per se but special shout out to character actor Charles Lane that played older characters starting in the 1930s through about 2006. Over 70 years of playing older to old men. Live 102 years. If you watch a lot of TCM at any point, you know who he is, maybe not be name, but you know him.
Yeah I tend to think of them more as comedians rather than movie stars though they count as both especially Bob Hope.
A bit surprising that the male centenarian stars outnumber the female so far and Brooks will only add to that if he hangs on till June.
Would you count June Lockhart? She made 100 this year but died in October. More a TV star than a Hollywood Star I think.
I admit I had never heard of Lockhart but after a brief look at her Wiki page she doesn’t seem to be a movie star at the level of the other names mentioned here.
I know she had a movie career, but I don’t think she was more than a supporting actress usually. I know her mainly as the mother on Lassie & Lost in Space.
Speaking of TV stars, and I think she was a bigger one. Betty White missed by 17 days of being 100. Like George Burns, a big part of her fame was for still being active and funny as she approached 100. A really nice long life, but sad she missed her goal by so little. She was on TV as a teen on an experimental station in LA in 1939. So she really was the pioneer of TV. First Woman TV producer iirc. Star on so many shows over the decades.