The Last night, the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences handed out the Emmy Awards specifically dedicated to daytime programs. The event, which was held at the central Westin Bonaventure hotel in Los Angeles, served to elevate a myth of cinema and the small screen such as Dick Van Dyke.
The television host and actor was awarded for his guest-starring performance on ‘Days of Our Lives’, an American soap opera. The award makes him the oldest person to receive an Emmy, a record that will be considerably difficult to beat considering he is 98. years.
“I feel like a spy on late-night television. I am the oldest candidate in history. I can not believe it. I’ve been playing old my whole life. If I had known I would live this long, I would have taken better care of myself. I’m 98 years old, can you believe it? This exceeds a useful life of 80 years In the business. I love you, God bless you,” he pronounced on the stand.
His work on the series was limited to four episodes, of which he starred in one of them with his wife, Arlene Silver. In the role of a mysterious man with amnesia, one of the protagonists has to try to help him recover the stories that have gone away with his memory loss.
Her work on Mary Poppins
If Dick Van Dyke is known for one role, it is for having played the chimney sweep Bert in Mary Poppins, back in 1965. In the plot, Bert was the nanny’s best friend, as well as a totally multifaceted man, as he came to work as an orchestra man, a street artist, a kite seller and a chimney cleaner. He also appeared in ‘Mary Poppins Returns’, where he played Michael Banks, the father of the children Mary was babysitting.
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