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Dick Van Dyke, 99, Shares His Final Bucket List Career Goal

The legendary actor is just one award shy of EGOT-ing.

Dick Van Dyke, 99, isn’t ready to retire quite yet. And he still has one more big career goal in mind. “I love what I do for a living,” Van Dyke told People at the Dick & Arlene Van Dyke Present Vandy Camp, affirming his desire to keep working. But wife Arlene Silver, 53, revealed a caveat: “The minute he says that—the phone rings he’s like, ‘I don’t want to go there.’ If they come to our house, he will work all the time.” Van Dyke admits travel is his biggest hurdle. “Yeah. I’m too old to travel and all that,” he said. Despite the challenges, the Mary Poppins star is still chasing one major goal: an Academy Award. “I got a Tony from Bye Bye Birdie‚” he shared, in addition to three acting Emmy Awards for The Dick Van Dyke Show (plus one more for Van Dyke and Company) and a Grammy Award for Mary Poppins. “So I’ve got one of everything except an Oscar.” His wife added, “He should have an Oscar.” Van Dyke said he would even be happy with an honorary Academy Award. When asked if he’d like to complete the EGOT—adding an Oscar to his Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award— before turning 100 on Dec. 13 of this year, he answered with a grin: “Oh, yeah!”