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When I started having kids, I thought, 'I don't want to do anything they can't watch.'

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Dick Van Dyke
Age: 98
Born: 1925
Born: December 13
Actor
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Screenwriter
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Television Actor
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West Plains
Missouri
Richard Wayne Van Dyke
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