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When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.
Dick Van Dyke
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Dick Van Dyke
Age: 98
Born: 1925
Born: December 13
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