Dick Van Dyke James Garner and Elke Sommer, "Some Kind of a Nut", "Never a Dull Moment" with Edward G. Robinson, and "Divorce American Style" with Debbie Reynolds and Jean Simmons. But he also starred as Caractacus Pott (with his native accent, at his own insistence, despite the English setting) in the successful musical version of Ian Fleming's "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" (1968), which co-starred Sally Ann Howes and featured the same songwriters (The Sherman Brothers) and choreographers (Marc Breaux and Dee Dee Wood) as "Mary Poppins". In 1969, Van Dyke appeared in the comedy-drama "The Comic", written and directed by Carl Reiner.
Ian Fleming (cricketer) 66. His final first-class match was in the same fixture the following year. He had played one match for Kent's Second XI in 1927 in the Minor Counties Championship and made another appearance for the side in the competition in 1934. A number of members of Fleming's extended family also played first-class cricket. His uncle Andrew Weber played twice for Western Province in South Africa, and four other uncles, George Garnett, Arthur Weber, Oscar Weber and Walter Weber, all played at first-class level in the Caribbean. Fleming died at Pembury in Kent in 1988 aged 79. Ian Fleming (cricketer) Ian