OleView. Exe from Visual Studio tools. It does the most things you described and works great on x64.
There's an open-source, freeware typelib data dumper and the "Unofficial TypeLib Data Format Specification" at: http://theircorp.byethost11.com/index.php?vw=TypeLib Michael.
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