The ‘Mary Poppins’ star turns 99 on Dec. 13.
Coldplay is honoring the exceptional life and profession of Dick Van Dyke because the beloved actor nears his 99th birthday on Dec. 13.
On Friday, the British rock group, fronted by vocalist Chris Martin, launched an prolonged music video of its newest tune, “All My Love,” highlighting a few of Van Dyke’s best moments, each on and off the display screen.
The “Mary Poppins” star makes a particular look within the seven-minute-long video, which was filmed within the actor’s Malibu dwelling.
The music video opens with Van Dyke strolling out into his string light-lit yard, the place Martin will be seen seated at a piano.
“Chris, shall we?” Van Dyke asks earlier than the singer launches right into a efficiency of his melodious love ballad, from Coldplay’s tenth studio album, “Moon Music.”
All through the music video, Van Dyke will be seen dancing, laughing, and even singing a portion of “All My Love” alongside Martin.
“You got all my love,” the pair croon in unison. “Almost on key,” Van Dyke quips, later sharing his favourite lyrics from the tune: “Until I die, let me hold you if you cry.”
Van Dyke and his present spouse, Arlene Silver, whom the actor married in February 2012, served as co-producers on the music video. It was co-directed by filmmakers Mary Wigmore and Spike Jonze—the Oscar-winning director of the 2013 movie “Her.”
In a single scene, Van Dyke is requested for his definition of affection.
“What is love? Boy, they’ve been attacking that question for centuries,” he says. “It’s certainly the feeling of caring about the welfare and the life of the other person as much as you care for yourself.”
Elsewhere within the video, Van Dyke will be seen gazing at an previous household {photograph}, which depicts the actor and his first spouse, Margie Willett, together with their 4 youngsters, Christian, Barry, Stacy, and Carrie Beth.
Van Dyke and Willett divorced in 1984 after 36 years of marriage. Willett died in 2008 on the age of 81 from pancreatic most cancers.
“I am acutely aware that I can go any day now, but I don’t know why it doesn’t concern me,” Van Dyke says.
“I’m not afraid of it. I have that feeling totally against anything intellectual I have that I am going to be all right.”
Coldplay’s social media followers had been fast to offer the music video all their love.
“It is so beautiful and sweet … tears of emotion in my eyes,” one fan wrote on X.
“One of the most emotional things I have ever watched. Just beautiful,” one other replied.
“Impossible to look at him without shedding a few tears,” a follower commented on Instagram. “It is devastatingly tender. So sweet. Love to the end of the days.”
Honoring a Legend
Van Dyke’s riveting performances have spanned the display screen and stage all through his greater than 70-year profession.
The actor garnered his breakout half within the 1960 Broadway musical “Bye Bye Birdie.” The next yr, he emerged as a family identify reverse actress Mary Tyler Moore within the CBS sitcom “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” which ran for 5 seasons till 1966.
The actor reprised his function as Albert Peterson within the 1963 movie adaptation of “Bye Bye Birdie,” starring Janet Leigh and Ed Sullivan. He went on to carry out within the 1964 musical “Mary Poppins” with actress Julie Andrews.
Among the Emmy winner’s different notable movie credit embrace “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” (1968), “Cold Turkey” (1971), and “Dick Tracy” (1990). Van Dyke can be identified for enjoying Dr. Mark Sloan in CBS’s hit medical crime drama sequence “Diagnosis Murder.”
In December 2023, CBS celebrated Van Dyke’s 98th birthday with the premiere of “Dick Van Dyke 98 Years of Magic.” The tv particular showcased a wide range of tribute performances from artists together with singer Rita Ora, who sang the famed “Mary Poppins” tune “Super-cali-fragil-istic-expi-ali-docious.”
Showing on the “Awards Chatter“ podcast in June of this yr, Van Dyke mentioned he was enormously impressed by the performances.
“There was a lot of work covered there,” he mentioned. “Really good stuff, and the fact that I had enjoyed every minute of it, all of it. Yeah, it was just a great tribute. I’ll never forget it.”
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