Actor
David Tomlinson
Born 1917-05-07Died 2000-06-24aged 83
David Tomlinson (1917–2000) is best known for The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu, Bedknobs and Broomsticks and The Love Bug.
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 actor and a character actor, he is primarily remembered for his roles with The Walt Disney Company as the patriarch father George Banks in Mary Poppins (1964), hapless antagonist Peter Thorndyke in The Love Bug (1968) and the friendly con man Professor Emelius Browne in Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971). Tomlinson was posthumously inducted as a Disney Legend in 2002.