Dick Van Dyke has spent decades making audiences smile – but a new documentary marking the Hollywood legend’s 100th birthday takes an unabashed look at the struggles he faced behind the scenes.

“American Masters – Starring Dick Van Dyke,” premiering Friday on PBS, chronicled the entertainer’s eight-decade career while addressing what director John Scheinfeld described as Van Dyke’s “personal demons with alcohol” during the height of his fame.

“I’ve done a lot of these on famous people, and almost always there’s somebody who will say, ‘Oh, I didn’t like him’ or ‘He did this, or she did that,’” Scheinfeld told The Post ahead of the doc’s release.

“In the ten months we were working on this, there was not one person who had a bad thing to say about Dick,” the director added. “So he’s ver

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