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I'm not quite as much of a curmudgeon being old. I'm not cantankerous. But otherwise, I'm about the same.

Dick Van Dyke

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Dick Van Dyke
Age: 98
Born: 1925
Born: December 13
Actor
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Richard Wayne Van Dyke
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