David Tomlinson

David Tomlinson
Tomlinson as George Banks in Mary Poppins, 1964
Born
David Cecil MacAlister Tomlinson

(1917-05-07)7 May 1917
Died24 June 2000(2000-06-24) (aged 83)
Westminster, London, England
OccupationActor
Years active1940–1980
Spouses
Mary Lindsay Hiddingh
(m. 1943; died 1943)
Audrey Freeman
(m. 1953)
Children4
Military career
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service / branchRoyal Air Force
Years of service1940–1945
RankFlight Lieutenant
UnitFilm Unit
Battles / warsSecond World War

David Cecil MacAlister Tomlinson (7 May 1917 – 24 June 2000) was an English stage, film, and television actor, singer and comedian. Having been described as both a leading man and a character actor, he is primarily remembered for his roles with The Walt Disney Company 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. Tomlinson was posthumously inducted as a Disney Legend in 2002.