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Why Dick Van Dyke was the true marvel of WandaVision The 95-year-old's pursuit of perfection has made him a living legend – and cost him dearly, Now he's an unsung hero of the Marvel Universe Dick Van Dyke, circa 1960 Credit: Getty “If someone from the UK sees me, they are on me like a pack of wolves,” joked Dick Van Dyke, who always accepted the mockery over his role in Mary Poppins with good grace, admitting he’d delivered “the most atrocious Cockney accent in the history of cinema”. Even so, the man who played Bert the chimney sweep remains indubitably popular.

Ciarán Hinds plays John Franklin in this adaptation of Dan Simmon's novel  Credit: BBC/AMC The Terror: it's Master and Commander, with monsters. The horror series from producer Ridley Scott, which was originally shown on the US channel AMC  in 2018 and now finally arrives on BBC Two, follows a boatload of arctic explorers on the run from a vengeful spirit that dwells in those frozen wastes. Ice-monsters may be fictional (at least, one would hope so), but the show is based on historical fact. It's the latest retelling of the doomed 1845-46 expedition of Captain John Franklin and Franci...

The chaos behind Frasier: how an eccentric star and a stuck-up dog made a comedy classic In 1993, a sitcom spin-off featuring an unloved character and high-brow gags somehow charmed the world. And now it's making a welcome return 25 February 2021 • 11:28am 'Goodnight Seattle': Kelsey Grammer in the final episode of Frasier, which was watched by 33.7 million US viewers Frasier seemed to emerge fully formed from its Emmy-winning first episode, as well-made as one of the titular psychiatrist's tailored suits. But creating a modern classic took years. First pitched as a show about a disabled...

Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal at the 1969 Oscars Credit: ABC Photo Archives One of the things that annoyed Roald Dahl about Sean Connery was that he never got his round in. During the summer of 1966, Dahl was in Japan for the filming of You Only Live Twice, the new James Bond movie he had adapted – very loosely – from Ian Fleming’s novel. The shoot was based for a time around the city of Kagoshima in the country’s sweltering south, and at the end of the day the cast and crew would relax with a cold beer on set. Connery joined in with the drinking but, as Dahl quickly noticed, left the ...

Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan in The Kid Credit: API Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid, which was released to the public 100 years ago this month, was a landmark production which redoubled his global stardom by upping ambition, risking failure, and being unashamedly personal in its themes and settings. His first feature-length release, it achieved a combination of pin-sharp slapstick and affecting drama that would henceforth define the Chaplin brand. Into the bargain, it made his four-year-old discovery, Jackie Coogan, into cinema’s first major child star.  It was a miracle, however, that Ch...