Barry Van Dyke
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 Barry Van Dyke as Saint John Hawke on Season 4 of Airwolf |
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| Birth name | Barry Van Dyke |
| Born | July 31, 1951
Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Van Dyke |
Barry Van Dyke (born July 31, 1951 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an actor and the second son of actor and entertainer, Dick Van Dyke, and nephew of Jerry Van Dyke. He has one older brother, Christian, and two younger sisters, Stacy and Carrie Beth. He is best-known to audiences as Mark Sloan's (played by Dick Van Dyke) fictional son and police officer, Lieutenant Detective Steve Sloan, on Diagnosis: Murder, in which fictional relatives were typically played by real-life ones.
Barry's TV debut was as Florian, a violin-toting nine year old in "The Talented Neighborhood" episode of the classic The Dick Van Dyke Show. He worked behind the scenes on subsequent ventures of his father's, and has co-starred with him in two series, The Van Dyke Show (which was cancelled after just five episodes), and Diagnosis: Murder, as well as since becoming a star in his own right, building up an extensive filmography. He also wrote and directed several episodes of Diagnosis: Murder.
Barry's other television work includes appearances in Remington Steele, The Love Boat, Magnum P.I., The Dukes of Hazard, Galactica 1980, Airwolf, The A-Team Gun Shy, and The Redd Foxx Show.
Barry Van Dyke met his wife Mary when they were sixteen and he was working as a ticket-taker at a neighborhood movie theater. They were married seven years later, in 1974 and they have four children, Carey, Shane, Wes and Taryn. His children co-starred with him in two episodes of Diagnosis: Murder, both written by Barry himself. Carey and his wife Anne have 5 children. Alex, Mia, Ava, Gracie and newest addition to the Van Dyke clan is baby Jane, born in May 2007. In 2006, he reunited with his father Dick Van Dyke to film the TV movie Murder 101 where he played a former cop who teams up with a criminologist (played by his father) to solve a murder case.
He also appeared in television commercials for Garden State Life Insurance Company from 2000-2001.
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