David Tomlinson
David Tomlinson was born in Henley-on-Thames, England, United Kingdom on May 7th, 1917 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 83, David Tomlinson biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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David Cecil MacAlister Tomlinson, an English stage, film, and television comedian, died on May 1917 (24 June 2000).
Despite being portrayed as both a leading man and a character actor in Mary Poppins, fraud specialist Professor Emelius Browne in Bedknobs and Broomsticks, and as hapless villain Peter Thorndyke in The Love Bug, he is best remembered for his appearances as both a leading man and a character actor.
Tomlinson was inducted as a Disney Legend in 2002.
Early life
David Cecil McAlister Tomlinson was born in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, on May 7, 1917, the son of Florence Elizabeth Tomlinson (née Sinclair-Thomson) (1890-1978) and Clarence Samuel Tomlinson (1883-1978). He attended Tonbridge School and went on to join the Grenadier Guards for 16 months. Shell Mex House's father took him a Shell Mex House clerkship.
His stage career grew from amateur stage performances to his 1940 film debut in Quiet Wedding. As a Flight Lieutenant in the RAF, his career was interrupted. During the war, he worked as a flight instructor in Canada and appeared in three other films. After the war, his flying days resumed. On one occasion, he crashed a Tiger Moth plane near his back garden after he lost consciousness while flying.
Personal life and death
Tomlinson was first married to Mary Lindsay Hiddingh, the daughter of L. Seton Lindsay, vice president of New York Life Insurance Company. Major A. G. Hiddingh, her husband, had been killed in combat in 1941, leaving her to care for their two young sons. Tomlinson married Mary in September 1943 but in a murder-suicide attempt by leaping from a hotel in New York City on December 2nd.
Audrey Freeman (born 12 November 1931), Tomlinson's second wife, married on May 17th, 1953, and the couple lived together for 47 years until his death. They had four sons, David Jr., William, Henry, and James.
After suffering from a stroke, Tomlinson died peacefully in his sleep at King Edward VII's Hospital, Westminster, at 4 a.m. on June 24, 2000. He was 83 years old. He was arrested on his estate grounds in Mursley, Buckinghamshire. Tomlinson had joked that he wanted "a genius, irresistible to women" as an epitaph.
Film career
In the Disney film Mary Poppins (1964), David Tomlinson appeared as George Banks, the bank's chief. Mary Poppinson took Tomlinson to Disney for more than 20 years, appearing in The Love Bug (1968) and Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971). He never steered far from comedies during Tomlinson's film career. His last acting appearance was in Dr. Fu Manchu (1980), which was also Peter Sellers' final film. Tomlinson went from acting at the age of 63 to spending more time with his family. However, he appeared on the Wogan talk show with Tommy Cockles in 1992, at the age of 75.