David Tomlinson

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David Cecil MacAlister Tomlinson (born May 7, 1917 in Henley-on-Thames , Oxfordshire , † June 24, 2000 in Mursley , Buckinghamshire ) was a British film and theater actor .

Career

David Tomlinson began his acting career in the theater in 1935. Five years later he also worked as a film actor. With the beginning of the Second World War , he had to interrupt his career because he was drafted into the military. He served as a pilot in the British Air Force during the war. After the end of the war in 1945 he resumed his work as an actor and achieved greater popularity in the 1940s and 1950s with depictions of likeable and awkward father figures from the upper class. His international breakthrough came in the 1960s with his portrayal of Lord Fellamar in Tony Richardson's Oscar-winning comedy Tom Jones - Between Bed and Gallows. In 1964 he was directed by Robert Stevenson for the Disney film Mary Poppins in front of the camera. The portrayal of George Banks , the grumpy bank clerk and father of Jane (played by Karen Dotrice ) and Michael Banks (played by Matthew Garber ), continues to make the actor known to children and adults around the world. Tomlinson worked several times for Disney productions directed by Robert Stevenson in the years that followed. He played a supporting role in A Great Beetle and played alongside Angela Lansbury in The Daredevil Witch in Her Flying Bed, the crazy Professor Emilius Brown , who tricked people with his fake magic courses. Later he finds out that there is someone who learned magic through him. David Tomlinson made his last appearance in 1980 in The Malicious Game of Dr. Fu Man Chu . Then he withdrew into private life.

In 1990 the actor published his memoir under the title Luckier Than Most. To Autobiography . He died on June 24, 2000 at the age of 83.

Private life

David Tomlinson married his fellow actress Audrey Freeman in 1953 . The couple had four sons together, David Jr., William, Henry and James.

Awards

  • 1965 - Grammy for Best Record for Children ( Mary Poppins )
  • 2002 - posthumously appointed "Disney-Legend" ("Disney-Legend")

Filmography (selection)

Autobiography

  • Luckier Than Most. To Autobiography. 207. S., Hodder & Stoughton, London, Sydney, Auckland and Toronto 1990, ISBN 0-340-53484-2 .

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SURNAME Tomlinson, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tomlinson, David Cecil MacAlister
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Henley-on-Thames , Oxfordshire
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 2000
Place of death Mursley , Buckinghamshire