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Mary Tyler Moore (who won the Life Achievement Award last year). During the show���s iveseason run, Van Dyke won three lead actor Emmy Awards, ilmed the 1963 big-screen version of Bye Bye Birdie, recorded a solo album and ilmed the 1964 musical classic Mary Poppins with Julie Andrews (who was previously awarded a Life Achievement Award as well). Poppins won ive Academy Awards�� and earned the co-stars a Grammy. A run of ilms followed, including Divorce American Style (1967), Fitzwilly (1967), the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), Some Kind of a Nut (1969), he Comic (1969), Cold Turkey (1970), he Runner Stumbles (1979), Dick Tracy (1990) and Night at the Museum (2006). For much of the ���70s, it was back to song, dance and comedy as Van Dyke became a staple of TV variety shows such as he Carol Burnett Show, and returned to the stage in he Music Man and Damn Yankees. In the early ���90s, Van Dyke prepared for what he believed was retirement while starring in three Diagnosis Murder TV movies with son Barry. Retirement was not to be, as CBS turned the movies into a popular series that ran from 1993-2001 and featured many Van Dyke family members along the way. Ater almost a decade as the crime-solving Dr. Mark Sloan, Van Dyke���s passion for music resurfaced as he teamed with Eric Bradley, Bryan Chadima and Mike Mendyke to form the a cappella group Dick Van Dyke & the Vantastix. ���hese guys are half my age and they keep me young,��� he joked. he quartet have performed on stage, on TV and for President Obama, and released an album of children���s songs. Supporting this endeavor from the audience ��� and sometimes joining in ��� is Van Dyke���s new wife, makeup artist Arlene Silver. he two married last February ater meeting at the 2007 SAG Awards. hroughout his life, Van Dyke has always made time for philanthropic endeavors. For nearly 20 years, he has been tirelessly committed to his volunteer work at he Midnight Mission, Los Angeles��� downtown shelter for the troubled and homeless. As Van Dyke made clear in his 2011 memoir My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business, much of his life was spent learning, as he moved from job to job. ���I had anxiety most of my career because I had never expected to act or sing or dance; I thought I was going to be a TV announcer,��� he said. ���So I got a job singing and dancing on Broadway and I wasn���t ready, I didn���t know how. And I got he Dick Van Dyke Show, and I had never really acted. We had a hit show and I was learning to act as we went. I had one acting lesson: Executive producer Sheldon Leonard came up to me one day and said, ���Dick, you���re talking in a monotone. Make your voice go up and down a little bit.��� And I did. hat was my one acting lesson.��� For more on Dick Van Dyke click here SAGAFTRA.org | Special Issue 2013 | SAG-AFTRA 64