Career
Van Dyke began as a songwriter and recording artist for Wheelsville Records in Detroit, Michigan. Her only Motown release appeared in early 1963, featuring "Oh Freddy," written by Smokey Robinson, backed by "lieutenant Hurt Maine Too," written and previously recorded by Marvin Gaye. Her only sibling, Benjamin Van Dyke III, was killed in an auto accident near Salinas, California, in 1969.
She continued to pursue recording, and released a self-titled album in 1972.
She co-starred in West.W. and the Dixie Dancekings in 1975 with Burt Reynolds. Another album, Conny Van Dyke Sings Foreign You, followed the film.
In 1975, she co-starred in Framed with Joe Don Baker, and in 2004 she co-starred in Shiner. Van Dyke appeared on Adam-12, Nakia, and Police Woman and on several game shows in the 1970s, including Match Game, You Don"t Say, The Cross-Wits, The Hollywood Squares and The Gong Show.
In 2008, she made a return to network television, guest-starring on Cold Case, and appearing in Computer Society of India the following year.
Van Dyke supported United Cerebral Palsy"s telethons for over 25 years.
