David Tomlinson

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1917-05-07 (83 years old)

Deathday

2000-06-24

Place of Birth

Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire, England, UK

David Tomlinson

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. David Cecil MacAlister Tomlinson (7 May 1917 – 24 June 2000) was an English film actor. He is primarily remembered for his roles as authority figure George Banks in Mary Poppins, fraudulent magician Professor Emelius Browne in Bedknobs and Broomsticks and as hapless antagonist Peter Thorndyke in The Love Bug. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Tomlinson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia​

Acting

1964

Mary Poppins

as Mr. Banks

1963

Tom Jones

as Lord Fellamar

1946

I See a Dark Stranger

as Intelligence Officer

1968

The Love Bug

as Peter Thorndyke

1965

War-Gods of the Deep

as Harold Tufnell-Jones

1951

Hotel Sahara

as Captain Puffin Cheyne

1950

1946

School for Secrets

as Mr. Watlington

1948

My Brother's Keeper

as Ronnie Waring

1957

Carry On Admiral

as Tom Baker

1977

Wombling Free

as Roland Frogmorton

1948

Easy Money

as Martin Latham

1952

Made in Heaven

as Basil Topham

1948

Miranda

as Charles

1945

1951

Calling Bulldog Drummond

as Algernon "Algy" Longworth

1949

Helter Skelter

as Nick Martin

1980

Dominique

as Attorney

1958

Further Up the Creek

as Lt. Fairweather

1958

Up the Creek

as Lt. Fairweather

1948

Broken Journey

as Jimmy Marshall

1941

Quiet Wedding

as John Royd

1949

Landfall

as Binks

1949

Vote for Huggett

as Harold Hinchley

1948

Here Come the Huggetts

as Harold Hinchley

1950

So Long at the Fair

as Johnny Barton

1952

Castle in the Air

as Earl of Locharne

1941

1948

1949

Marry Me

as David Haig

1949

The Chiltern Hundreds

as Lord Tony Pym

1973

A Friend Indeed

as Sir John Holt

1947

The Master of Bankdam

as Lancelot Handel Crowther

1965

The Liquidator

as Quadrant

1945

The Way to the Stars

as 'Prune' Parsons

1948

Love in Waiting

as Robert Clitheroe

1952

The Magic Box

as Lab Asst

1947

Fame Is the Spur

as Lord Liskeard

1955

All for Mary

as Humphrey 'Humpy' Miller

1949

Warning to Wantons

as Count Max Kardak

1978

The Water Babies

as Sir John / Voice of Polar Bear

1975

From Hong Kong with Love

as Sir John Mac Gregor

1941

My Wife's Family

as Willie Bagshott

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