Richard Wayne "Dick" Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925) is an American actor, comedian, writer and producer with a career spanning six decades. Van Dyke starred in the films Bye Bye Birdie, Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and the television series "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "Diagnosis: Murder." Van Dyke has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Blvd.

Books by Dick Van Dyke

My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business: A Memoir

by Dick Van Dyke - Nonfiction

This is a lively, heartwarming memoir of a performer who still thinks of himself as a "simple song-and-dance man," but who is, in every sense of the word, a classic entertainer.