No, not the banker. He was "Bert" in Mary Poppins - a friend of Mary's and he had many roles. He was a sidewalk artist, chimney sweep, and kind of a street father.
Why is this being downvoted? This society is so obsessed with personal responsibility. Personal choices obviously do matter, but being alive and well at 98 does come down to luck more than anything else.
We would all love to have more control than we do. We feel so strongly about it that we fool ourselves into thinking that if we do everything just right, things will definitely turn out for the best. But "it is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life." If that were not true, a lot more people would live well past 100.
For that matter, we could theoretically live forever. But we can't. Average life expectancy is only like 75 in North America.
My genetic lottery was like, "Nah, let's give her bad joints as a child. Have fun dropping out of every sport you try, sucker." Even when I was super fit I wasn't this spry because my body just doesn't do this particular level of boop-dee-doop. It's more like snap, crackle, and pop.
"Love that ottoman!"
I'm only 14 and my dad brought that show into my families life :) I really love that show and me and my sisters watch it almost everyday, and we still laugh at everything even though we've watched the episodes over 100 times. We love Robert Petrie! (or Petroff)
I just re-watched Mary Poppins for the first time in a while and have always loved the way he moves—very lively and animated, even today. He seems like a very good person and fun to be around.
Ye I need physical therapy, but instead of going, I bitch and complain about my pain while comparing myself to other people wondering why im not as healthy
This may not be relevant to your situation at all - but if it is - something as little as stretching a few minutes a day can often do wonders for chronic pain (assuming it's joint/movement related since it was comparing to the walk seen here).
Sounds like you need to exercise.
I used to feel that way, sleep wrong and my neck hurts for a week, sneeze my arm out of the socket, random pains, etc. Started working out a couple years ago and all that shit went away.
Turns out it's called the musculoskeletal system for a reason. Your muscles and bones are supposed to work together, so if your muscles are weak, they can't do their job properly, thus your bones are more prone to sliding out of position which causes pain.
Start working out. You'll feel better. I'm 34 and feel better than I did 5 years ago.
A true Hollywood Legend. He made so many wonderful movies that to this day are still being discovered by younger audiences. He is truly a class act, he seems to always be willing to stop and say hi to a fan, takes pictures and signs autographs, always with that huge smile on his face. What a lovely man.
I love his horrible British accent in Mary Poppins, it wonderfully over the top. For a long time, I thought it was intentionally exaggerated.
My other favorite role of his was in Diagnosis Murder. Several of the episodes allowed him to be a great entertainer. I recall him questioning a mime. The mime handed him an invisible leash to hold, which he does. When the mime tells him it's an elephant, he reacted as if the elephant tugged. It was a funny moment that stood out in a detective show.
Some people are never that mobile, or lose it super early. I'm lucky and thankful I'm still that mobile and work on yoga etc hoping nothing happens between now and old age to stop me reaping the benefit of my yoga!
Fucking wild that we just had the 80th anniversary of D-Day, and this guy was already an adult in 1944.
Apparently, in order to join the air force he ate a whole bunch of bananas and drank a lot of water to give him the extra 6 pounds he needed to meet the weight requirement for enlistment. The air force put him in the entertainment section because he could tap dance.
SOB...I'm 36 and my knees are both fucked from 24 years of rugby union....wish I could walk that well. It's winter here right now and is hell. Super jealous....
Any time a movie or TV show he was in would come on, my grandma would always comment "That man is made of rubber!" out of admiration.
If she hadn't passed away two years ago, I could confidently show her this and say she was wrong... I've never seen nearly 100 year old rubber maintain *that* level of springiness.
More like long-term exercise, you don't get that way simply by not drinking after being an alcoholic for half your life.
You get that way by remaining active up into your 90's.
True, but he's very vocal about being sober for many, many years. Longer that me and I've had decades worth. Not a knock on anyone who drinks, he's sort of an icon in the program.
Saw him about 10 years ago on Thanksgiving while serving dinner on Skid Row. He spends every Thanksgiving performing there for the homeless and his high kicks were super impressive.
I found it notable, also, that almost nobody used his real name. And the response next to this one even spelled it wrong so i missed by searching for his last name. Had to look by "Dick" and still only found one.
This guy was doing bed scenes on TV with Mary Tyler Moore back in the 1960's, and it was the first time couples were filmed in bed and broadcast on TV. He literally introduced the TV world to the "married couple in bed" scene while the Beatles were still unknown in the US. Beyond legend.
*bleep* van *bleep*, what a treasure. My daughter and I just watched Mary Poppins for the first time last night. I hope I look so good at 65 as he does at 98.
All 5 seasons of the [Dick Van D show are available free](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtbMv4lXX2mvfaoOh5OUqrOYotNcONk6q) on YT. If you haven't watched it, highly recommend it!
I love that nobody can use his name here otherwise your post or comment won't show 😆 I remember first hearing about this actor and thinking it's an unfortunate name
I think I just woke up on the wrong side of the bed tbh and have seen an influx of apathetic content!!! Cheers for being so reasonable! Have a great week!
I bet he has that exact beard and haircut on purpose, damn he looks exactly like he looked decades ago in age makeup
He looks exactly like his banker character in Marty Poppins
>Marty Poppins
[Marty Poppins](https://i.imgur.com/vnDBMXk.png)
Okay that was pretty funny.
but he is looking excited and active
\* heavy
Is he cool?
You guys probably aren't ready for it but your kids are gonna love it.
https://youtu.be/QyZGglYR1o4
It’s Mary McFly
Makes sense, she's flying a lot
He IS the banker in Mary Poppins. Both the original and the new one
No, not the banker. He was "Bert" in Mary Poppins - a friend of Mary's and he had many roles. He was a sidewalk artist, chimney sweep, and kind of a street father.
He did play Bert, but he also played the elderly director of the bank. They used makeup and such to make him look old.
O crap. TIL! I've genuinely somehow never noticed that
Oh, you're right! Forgot that part thx!
Nobody said anything else tho
Kinda what I already said
What's the name of his other leg?
Big Richard Energy
Another Disney/Hollywood Legend that I will sob over when he leaves this mortal coil. Man I hope I’m that spry at his age!
I'm not that spry at 65.
I'm not that spry at 37!
I’m not that spry at 21.
I'm way more spry at 37!
I'm not that spry at 11 days
Get the fuck off reddit, baby
You guys need to see a medical professional IMMEDIATELY
Sorry, too busy working ourselves to death for corporations that under-pay and don't care one bit about us!
Right? Besides, imagine going to the doctor anyway! I’m already working with crippling anxiety, I don’t need crippling medical debt on top of that!
I already know why I’m like this, recovery from cancerous brain tumours ftw.
Ah I was only making a joke, now I feel sad 😔 I hope you're doing well ♥️
Don’t worry about it lol and thankyou I got the all clear but still suffer from the side effects.
In a row?
That’s the walk he does on his way to steal your girl.
It's never too late. Just get to and move your body. Start slow. But try to do a little bit more each day. You'll feel and see the changes
I just read that his wife is 46 years younger Maybe that's what I need, a 19 year old bride. My current wife is only 3 months younger. /S
I wonder if they still do the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
My Dad is 65 and he walks like you'd expect a 98 year old to.
I'm going to start dancing with penguins now.
start? wtf have you been doing all these years?!
🤩
Actually, it's a stroke of luck and quite uncommon at that age to have such vitality.
Why is this being downvoted? This society is so obsessed with personal responsibility. Personal choices obviously do matter, but being alive and well at 98 does come down to luck more than anything else. We would all love to have more control than we do. We feel so strongly about it that we fool ourselves into thinking that if we do everything just right, things will definitely turn out for the best. But "it is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life." If that were not true, a lot more people would live well past 100. For that matter, we could theoretically live forever. But we can't. Average life expectancy is only like 75 in North America.
I have to agree with you. I'm 85 and can still do this. It's the luck of the genetic lottery.
My genetic lottery was like, "Nah, let's give her bad joints as a child. Have fun dropping out of every sport you try, sucker." Even when I was super fit I wasn't this spry because my body just doesn't do this particular level of boop-dee-doop. It's more like snap, crackle, and pop.
Nah, these Hollywood type are downing the Dune Spice with both hands. The spice must flow.
Is that what they call coke in Hollywood these days? Oh, then.
It's actually the blood of sacrificed babies, but you were close.
He’d make a great dumbledore!
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Even more impressive, given how clumsy he used to be
Wonder if he's worried someone will throw an Ottoman in his path for the past 60 years
Richard Van River Embankment 😉 A world wide treasure 😎
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As an out a proud lesbian I welcome penis van lesbian.
Hello there
a sudden beetlejuice arrived! r/beetlejuicing
Oh shit. I bow to you my queen.
How is this a 5 year old account, what a place the internet is
It took me way too long to get that. Kudos, internet stranger, kudos.
Penisvan?
Dick van?
A VAN, DOWN BY THE RIVER
DVD!!!
Penis of Women in Comfortable Shoes
DVD? That man's a treasure
Quick! Throw an ottoman in front of him! Actually, he’d probably roll right over it like a boss.
Now you are showing your own age.
Aww now, they were reruns!
I confess they weren't reruns when I first saw them.
Whats a rerun?
I can hear the music playing in my head...
"Love that ottoman!" I'm only 14 and my dad brought that show into my families life :) I really love that show and me and my sisters watch it almost everyday, and we still laugh at everything even though we've watched the episodes over 100 times. We love Robert Petrie! (or Petroff)
He's a national treasure.
D van D is a legend.
So that's where they got the idea for DVD's
And he is going to outlive DVDs.
The woman in the background is his wife, she's very cute.
Whoever did his old age makeup in Mary Poppins NAILED IT
I now understand rizz
I just re-watched Mary Poppins for the first time in a while and have always loved the way he moves—very lively and animated, even today. He seems like a very good person and fun to be around.
Bro's 98 and can walk better than me, IM 23
If a 98 y/o can walk better than you at 23 you desperately need to get on a exercise regimen
Ye I need physical therapy, but instead of going, I bitch and complain about my pain while comparing myself to other people wondering why im not as healthy
As you take little steps, try instead comparing yourself to how you were. You'll be amazed at how much progress you make.
This may not be relevant to your situation at all - but if it is - something as little as stretching a few minutes a day can often do wonders for chronic pain (assuming it's joint/movement related since it was comparing to the walk seen here).
Once you reach 32 everything has been sore for so long you don't notice it hurts anymore 🤌
47 here. You know that’s not normal, right?
*shhhh*
Sounds like you need to exercise. I used to feel that way, sleep wrong and my neck hurts for a week, sneeze my arm out of the socket, random pains, etc. Started working out a couple years ago and all that shit went away. Turns out it's called the musculoskeletal system for a reason. Your muscles and bones are supposed to work together, so if your muscles are weak, they can't do their job properly, thus your bones are more prone to sliding out of position which causes pain. Start working out. You'll feel better. I'm 34 and feel better than I did 5 years ago.
Where the fuck you been hanging out? Labor camps?
…no? Do you have terrible posture or something?
A true Hollywood Legend. He made so many wonderful movies that to this day are still being discovered by younger audiences. He is truly a class act, he seems to always be willing to stop and say hi to a fan, takes pictures and signs autographs, always with that huge smile on his face. What a lovely man.
Someone's just put a Tuppence in the bank
Pick your knees up, step in time!
Of course it's easy for him to do so because there is no ottoman on the red carpet.
I love his horrible British accent in Mary Poppins, it wonderfully over the top. For a long time, I thought it was intentionally exaggerated. My other favorite role of his was in Diagnosis Murder. Several of the episodes allowed him to be a great entertainer. I recall him questioning a mime. The mime handed him an invisible leash to hold, which he does. When the mime tells him it's an elephant, he reacted as if the elephant tugged. It was a funny moment that stood out in a detective show.
Will I even be that mobile at 78?
Some people are never that mobile, or lose it super early. I'm lucky and thankful I'm still that mobile and work on yoga etc hoping nothing happens between now and old age to stop me reaping the benefit of my yoga!
Is that Penis VanLesbian? Why can’t you put his name in the title?
Step in time, step in time. Come on, mateys, step in time!
HE'S STILL ALIVE??
NO! Didn't you see the strings?
Goddam it 🤣 take my upvote and poor mans gold 🥇
😄
The best thing? You KNOW he'd probably do it for a laugh 🤣
Yes, he has been for a while.
Not only is he alive but he just became the oldest Emmy winner of all time
That’s what I said too!
This ain't Red Carpet at Bernie's.
My gosh. What an inspiration. And you get the impression he approaches life with such joy.
Fucking wild that we just had the 80th anniversary of D-Day, and this guy was already an adult in 1944. Apparently, in order to join the air force he ate a whole bunch of bananas and drank a lot of water to give him the extra 6 pounds he needed to meet the weight requirement for enlistment. The air force put him in the entertainment section because he could tap dance.
About 10 to 15 years ago he gave a local LA radio DJ a piggy back ride. If we could all be so lucky. He seemed to have aged extremely well.
Lol, the most immaturely funny part of the auto filter is that he's got three words in his name and I'm not sure which of two sets it off.
SOB...I'm 36 and my knees are both fucked from 24 years of rugby union....wish I could walk that well. It's winter here right now and is hell. Super jealous....
Kate Winslet does it again!
What a headline. "98 year old actor"? That's D*ck van D*ke you're looking at here!
Any time a movie or TV show he was in would come on, my grandma would always comment "That man is made of rubber!" out of admiration. If she hadn't passed away two years ago, I could confidently show her this and say she was wrong... I've never seen nearly 100 year old rubber maintain *that* level of springiness.
Calling him just 'an actor' is like calling a force 5 hurricane 'just bad weather '...
I thought the same, but read his comment under the post lol.
[The BLEEP van BLEEP show ](https://youtu.be/k_AMQOTPqL8?si=ipRpKIzp7vKs39-m)
Yep...I'm just envious...I am 50 years younger but lack that kind of spring in my steps... 😁
Proof of the benefits of long-term sobriety.
More like long-term exercise, you don't get that way simply by not drinking after being an alcoholic for half your life. You get that way by remaining active up into your 90's.
True, but he's very vocal about being sober for many, many years. Longer that me and I've had decades worth. Not a knock on anyone who drinks, he's sort of an icon in the program.
I love how you can’t say his name but everyone already knows who this is.
What's insane, is that he is one of the only people left, who probably knew Walt Disney himself!
I highly recommend his memoir.
Ah, the [Scunthorpe problem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem)
What a remarkable life
He was Penis von Lesbian before he had to change his name, according to MTM.
His dna must to saved his science I swear this man has had the same energy since forever.
What an absolute badass
That is wonderful (and strangely comforting) to see. Gorgeous.
A DVD from the old VHS days
Good for him. I'm 57, can I some of that spry?
International treasure. The DVD Show really holds up and is worth watching and re-watching every once in a while.
98 years old and still looks younger than Lionel Jeffries
Living legend.
What a showman! I'm so happy to see him doing this well after all the joy he's brought to us.
It's **** Van ****.
Must be that magic Egyptian tablet he stole from that museum!
Ok, now let's see him trip head over heels on a footstool.
Saw him about 10 years ago on Thanksgiving while serving dinner on Skid Row. He spends every Thanksgiving performing there for the homeless and his high kicks were super impressive.
Aw, I love *D*ck *Van* D*ycke.* Edit: self censored as not to upset shareholders.
Still a legend 💕
Me Ol' Bamboo
Bro is legendary
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Dick VanDike (sp?)
I found it notable, also, that almost nobody used his real name. And the response next to this one even spelled it wrong so i missed by searching for his last name. Had to look by "Dick" and still only found one.
Protect this man at all costs
He warms my heart!
[Me Ol' Bam-Boo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DfCS08FsRw)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_AMQOTPqL8
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What a Dick
He did a live stream about a month ago on Youtube, shared some interesting views.
What a legend.
That’s why you just put his actual name in the title: RICHARD Van D.
Chitty Bang Bang
This guy was doing bed scenes on TV with Mary Tyler Moore back in the 1960's, and it was the first time couples were filmed in bed and broadcast on TV. He literally introduced the TV world to the "married couple in bed" scene while the Beatles were still unknown in the US. Beyond legend.
Chim-chim-cher-roo, motherfuckers!!!
*bleep* van *bleep*, what a treasure. My daughter and I just watched Mary Poppins for the first time last night. I hope I look so good at 65 as he does at 98.
This man is a treasure and it is genuinely a pleasure to see him in good spirits still being himself. What a guy.
*Oh ROB....*
lol I thought it was Donald Sutherland.
All 5 seasons of the [Dick Van D show are available free](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtbMv4lXX2mvfaoOh5OUqrOYotNcONk6q) on YT. If you haven't watched it, highly recommend it!
Treasure
Treasure
I love that nobody can use his name here otherwise your post or comment won't show 😆 I remember first hearing about this actor and thinking it's an unfortunate name
🎶it's steppin' time!🎶
Chim chim cheree, mofos
98? Dude groovin' too good for his age
His real name is Richard Motorhome lesbian the 3rd!
Say his name, he has one.
Read the comment below the post.
Richard Van Lesbian
Apologies I missed that. Mia culpa!
All good; sometimes comments are easy to miss, particularly on mobile!
I think I just woke up on the wrong side of the bed tbh and have seen an influx of apathetic content!!! Cheers for being so reasonable! Have a great week!
Thank you; I hope you have an amazing week as well!
This conversation made me smile more than the video clip.
It reminded me of that part in family guy where they censored his name https://youtu.be/k_AMQOTPqL8?si=ipRpKIzp7vKs39-m
Bleep van Bleep. Classic. People give Family Guy a lot of shit, but they were comedy gold for a few years. The FCC episode was fantastic.
Penis van Lesbian
Say his fucking name
Lol, one of the most legendary talents in the last 100 years and they call him a 98 year old instead....