Authors: Dick Van Dyke
Cutting the cake at our intimate first wedding ceremony on Leap Day 2012 at the Serra Retreat in Malibu.
Photograph by Matt Hamill
September 2012: For our second ceremony our friends Frank and Fay Mancuso lent us their beachfront home for a big, blowout “nautical circus.”
Photograph by Ryan Williams, Rawtography
One of my favorite pictures—we look like a couple of screwball detectives in love.
Photograph by Oscar Zagal
My current headshot.
Photograph by Oscar Zagal
Introducing my
Mary Poppins
costar Julie Andrews as she received a Life Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild in 2006.
Photograph by Michael Caulfield/
WIREIMAGE.com
for TNT, a Time Warner Company
I’ve always considered myself a song-and-dance man, so to receive my
own
Life Achievement Award from SAG really tickled me.
Photograph by Mark Hill/TNT
Backstage after I received my SAG award I did my “headless man” trick, to Arlene’s genuine surprise—she’d never seen me do it in person.
Photograph by Kirk McCoy
/L.A. Times
I doodle while on the sets of all my projects. Sometimes I even draw in bed—my “doodling studio!”
Photograph by Arlene Silver Van Dyke
In 2014 Arlene organized a “Jolly Holiday Bazaar” fundraiser for the Serra Retreat and the Midnight Mission, with which I’ve been involved for twenty years. You could get your picture taken with “St. Dick”!
Photograph by Loretta Wang/The Social Booth Co.
September 2014: I was bursting with pride when I presented Arlene with a Golden Heart Award from the Midnight Mission.
Photograph courtesy of the Midnight Mission
One of the high points of a recent trip on Amtrak was the dining car and our wonderful waiter, Zack. I left him a doodle as well as a tip.
Photograph by Arlene Silver Van Dyke
Carl Reiner and I have been friends for almost sixty years, but when it comes to valuing imagination, creativity, and joyful curiosity, we’ve never grown up.
Photograph by Andy Gotts