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Richard Wayne Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925) is an American actor, entertainer, and comedian. His award-winning career has spanned seven decades in film, television, and stage. Van Dyke is the recipient of multiple awards, including a Golden Globe, Tony, Grammy, a Daytime Emmy, and four Primetime Emmys. He was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1995 and the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2012. He was honored with the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2013, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2021 and was recognized as a Disney Legend. Van Dyke began his career as an entertainer on radio and television, in nightclubs, and on the Broadway stage. In 1961, he starred in the original production of Bye Bye Birdie, a role which earned him the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. Carl Reiner then cast him as Rob Petrie on the CBS television sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show from 1961 to 1966, which made him a household name. He went on to star in the movie musicals Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Mary Poppins (1964), and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), and in the comedy-drama The Comic (1969). Van Dyke also made guest appearances on television programs Columbo (1974) and The Carol Burnett Show (1977), and starred in The New Dick Van Dyke Show (1971–74), Diagnosis: Murder (1993–2001), and Murder 101 (2006–08). Van Dyke has also made appearances in the films Dick Tracy (1990), Curious George (2006), Night at the Museum (2006), Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014), and Mary Poppins Returns (2018).
Maximus "Max" Grayson isn't like the other boys at his high school, he is skinny and has a bowl haircut; looking more like a girl; he goes deer hunting on a regular basis, with his Grandad, and his two friends, the tomboy Bobby, and the more girly Fran Doggart. Max is warned by his Grandad to not follow his brothers, Colton and Charlie Grayson's alcoholic footsteps. Previously beaten by his Great-Grandfather, Phil, Max is the sole Grayson boy who hasn't turned to drugs. At the age of 12, he has his first kiss with Fran, 9, and the two keep the secret from Bobby, as Max thinks him and Fran have a purely platonic relationship. Although later, Bobby starts liking Max- And Max decides he likes Bobby back. He tries to sort his life out- but then his childhood enemy, Axel Dunn, returns- and he marries Fran; leaving Max unexpectedly upset: and then he starts dating Bobby Doggart. We then follow Max's regrets in adulthood, as he gets candid on how he regrets letting Fran Doggart go too soon, but also how he is in love with Bobby- Max begins to have no regrets- And he soon forgets Fran, as Bobby becomes pregnant with their first child.
