David Tomlinson

English actor (1917-2000)

David Cecil MacAlister Tomlinson 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.

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Filmography in the catalog

Credited on 17 films (1941–1977) — matched by name in the Creator or Credits field. Also mentioned in 4 other records (descriptions, transcriptions, copyright notes).

Year ▲	Title	Creator	Length	Format	Color	Sound
1941	Quiet Wedding.	Anthony Asquith	7 reels		B&W
1949	Helter Skelter	Ralph Thomas
1949	Sleeping Car To Trieste.	Two Cities Films Ltd.	95 min.	35mm	B&W	sound
1949	Warning To Wantons	Aquila Film Productions, Ltd			B&W
1950	The Amazing Mr. Beecham.	Two Cities Films Ltd.	86 min.	35mm	B&W	sound
1950	The Wooden Horse	Jack Lee	101 min		B&W
1952	Castle In The Air.	Stratford Pictures Corp.	89 min.	35mm	B&W	sound
1952	Made in Heaven	John Paddy Carstairs
1958	Further Up the Creek	Val Guest	91 min
1958	Up the Creek	Val Guest	83 min		B&W
1963	Tom Jones.	Woodfall Film Productions Ltd.	128 min	35mm	Color	sound
1965	The Liquidator.	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios Ltd.	105 min	35mm	Color	sound
1965	War-Gods Of The Deep.	American International Productions	85	35mm	Color	sound
1968	THE LOVE BUG.	Walt Disney Productions.	107 min	35mm	Color	sound
1971	Bedknobs and broomsticks	Robert Stevenson	119 min		Color
1971	Bedknobs and Broomsticks	Robert Stevenson	119 min		Color
1977	Wombling Free	Lionel Jeffries