David Tomlinson

David Tomlinson

1917-05-07 Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire, England, UK 50 Credits

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. David Cecil MacAlister Tomlinson (7 May 1917 – 24 June 2000) was an English film actor. He is primarily remembered for his roles 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Tomlinson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia​

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Music Magic: The Sherman Brothers - Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Music Magic: The Sherman Brothers - Bedknobs and Broomsticks

2001

as Self

Acting

A short but informative documentary on the the 1971 Disney movie "Bedknobs and Broomsticks," which discusses the making of the film, the origins of th...

The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu

The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu

1980

as Sir Roger Avery

4.7
Acting

Fu Manchu's 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu's age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up ing...

Dominique

Dominique

1980

as Attorney

5.0
Acting

The wife of a greedy man comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death.

The Water Babies

The Water Babies

1978

as Sir John / Voice of Polar Bear

5.9
Acting

Grimes, an amoral chimney sweep, occasionally likes to steal valuables from his clients. One day, on the verge of being caught, he frames his young ap...

Wombling Free

Wombling Free

1977

as Roland Frogmorton

9.5
Acting

The adventures of The Wombles, strange creatures who live on Wimbledon Common and pick up the litter left by the humans. There's always time for a nic...

From Hong Kong with Love

From Hong Kong with Love

1975

as Sir John Mac Gregor

4.7
Acting

Bons baisers de Hong Kong (From Hong Kong with Love) is a 1975 French film directed by Yvan Chiffre. It is a parody of James Bond movies featuring Les...

A Friend Indeed

1973

as Sir John Holt

Acting

Sir Lionel Hibury is visiting an old friend in Rome, accompanied by his wife and daughter. Sir Lionel is not pleased when daughter, Sheila, become rom...

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

1971

as Emelius

7.0
Acting

Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster. The children's initial fears disappear when th...

The Love Bug

The Love Bug

1968

as Peter Thorndyke

6.5
Acting

Down-on-his-luck race car driver Jim Douglas teams up with a little VW Bug that has a mind of its own, not realizing Herbie's worth until a sneaky riv...

The Liquidator

The Liquidator

1965

as Quadrant

6.2
Acting

Spy spoof about Boysie Oakes, a British secret agent who specialises in Liquidating. In actual fact he contracts out the work and pretends it was hims...

War-Gods of the Deep

War-Gods of the Deep

1965

as Harold Tufnell-Jones

4.9
Acting

A chance discovery leads American mining engineer Ben Harris and acquaintance Harold to discover a lost city under the sea while searching for their k...

The Truth About Spring

The Truth About Spring

1965

as Skelton

7.0
Acting

Tommy Tyler, a lazy Caribbean sailor, and his tom-boy daughter, Spring, are out to search for a buried treasure. Tommy brings aboard William Ashton, a...

Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins

1964

as Mr. Banks

7.6
Acting

Mr Banks is looking for a nanny for his two mischievous children and comes across Mary Poppins, an angelic nanny. She not only brings a change in thei...

Tom Jones

Tom Jones

1963

as Lord Fellamar

5.9
Acting

Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?

Follow That Horse!

1960

Acting

A race horse swallows a microfilm and is pursued by the major superpowers spy agencies.

Further Up the Creek

Further Up the Creek

1958

as Lt. Fairweather

6.0
Acting

The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather. This time he is skipper of the ship ...

Up the Creek

Up the Creek

1958

as Lt. Fairweather

6.2
Acting

Bumbling navy officer Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather (David Tomlinson) is transferred to HMS Berkeley, an old World War II destroyer, to keep him out...

Carry On Admiral

Carry On Admiral

1957

as Tom Baker

6.0
Acting

Two friends get drunk and decide to switch identities. One is a Parliamentary Secretary, and the other is the captain of a ship. The former's lack of...

Three Men in a Boat

Three Men in a Boat

1956

as J

6.3
Acting

Three London gentlemen take a vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.

All for Mary

All for Mary

1955

as Humphrey 'Humpy' Miller

6.2
Acting

In a Swiss Alpine resort shortly after the War an army officer and upper-class Humpy Miller both set their sights on Mary, the landlord's daughter. Wh...

Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary?

Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary?

1953

as Frank Betterton

5.0
Acting

An American soldier stationed in England is ready to go on his honeymoon with his new wife when his ex-wife, a gorgeous blonde, shows up and insists t...

Made in Heaven

Made in Heaven

1952

as Basil Topham

4.0
Acting

Residents of the small English village of Dunmow react in comical ways when the Topham family hires a beautiful and young Hungarian maid.

Castle in the Air

Castle in the Air

1952

as Earl of Locharne

6.2
Acting

The owner of a Scottish castle discovers that it is haunted by the spirit of a beautiful woman. He decides to use the ghost as a tourist attraction fo...

The Magic Box

The Magic Box

1952

as Lab Asst

6.3
Acting

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to i...

Hotel Sahara

Hotel Sahara

1951

as Captain Puffin Cheyne

5.3
Acting

World War II farce about the hotel of the title

Calling Bulldog Drummond

Calling Bulldog Drummond

1951

as Algernon "Algy" Longworth

5.8
Acting

Bulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar.

The Wooden Horse

The Wooden Horse

1950

as Phil

6.8
Acting

True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany

So Long at the Fair

So Long at the Fair

1950

as Johnny Barton

6.7
Acting

Vicky Barton and her brother Johnny travel from Naples to visit the 1889 Paris Exhibition. They both sleep in seperate rooms in their hotel. When the ...

Landfall

Landfall

1949

as Binks

7.0
Acting

A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable to...

The Chiltern Hundreds

The Chiltern Hundreds

1949

as Lord Tony Pym

5.0
Acting

Young Viscount Tony Pym wangles National Service leave on the pretext of standing as a Tory candidate for a local seat held by his family for generati...

Marry Me

Marry Me

1949

as David Haig

4.3
Acting

The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on...

Vote for Huggett

Vote for Huggett

1949

as Harold Hinchley

6.6
Acting

A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a ...

Helter Skelter

Helter Skelter

1949

as Nick Martin

6.2
Acting

A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.

Warning to Wantons

Warning to Wantons

1949

as Count Max Kardak

6.0
Acting

Featuring an early role for accomplished French actress Anne Vernon alongside Mary Poppins star David Tomlinson, this effervescent comedy charts the r...

Here Come the Huggetts

Here Come the Huggetts

1948

as Harold Hinchley

6.5
Acting

The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix' ...

Love in Waiting

Love in Waiting

1948

as Robert Clitheroe

6.0
Acting

The story of three women working as waitresses in post-World War II Britain.

Sleeping Car to Trieste

Sleeping Car to Trieste

1948

as Tom Bishop

6.7
Acting

Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.

My Brother's Keeper

My Brother's Keeper

1948

as Ronnie Waring

6.1
Acting

War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan ...

Broken Journey

Broken Journey

1948

as Jimmy Marshall

6.0
Acting

A plane flying over the Swiss Alps develops engine trouble and is forced to crash-land on a glacier. Unable to radio for help because of damaged batte...

Miranda

Miranda

1948

as Charles

6.2
Acting

A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue.

Easy Money

Easy Money

1948

as Martin Latham

6.0
Acting

A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the co...

Fame Is the Spur

Fame Is the Spur

1947

as Lord Liskeard

6.5
Acting

A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately becomes the very type of politician he had set out to ...

The Master of Bankdam

The Master of Bankdam

1947

as Lancelot Handel Crowther

6.0
Acting

Generational family struggles for control of a family business in 19th century Yorkshire, and to be the Master of Bankdam.

School for Secrets

School for Secrets

1946

as Mr. Watlington

7.0
Acting

Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of B...

I See a Dark Stranger

I See a Dark Stranger

1946

as Intelligence Officer

6.3
Acting

Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her travels, she encounters J. Miller, who recruits h...

Journey Together

Journey Together

1945

as Smith

6.4
Acting

Two Englishmen (Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling) train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.

The Way to the Stars

The Way to the Stars

1945

as 'Prune' Parsons

6.1
Acting

Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in...

'Pimpernel' Smith

'Pimpernel' Smith

1941

as Steve

7.1
Acting

Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his exca...

My Wife's Family

My Wife's Family

1941

as Willie Bagshott

Acting

A farce concerning the attempts of a naval officer to avoid a visit from his wife's overbearing mother-in-law, and cope with a former girlfriend at th...

Quiet Wedding

Quiet Wedding

1941

as John Royd

5.0
Acting

A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.