David Tomlinson
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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.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 7.408 |
| Birthday | 1917-05-07 |
| Place of Birth | Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Дэвид Сесил Макалистер Томлинсон, Дэвид Томлинсон, Дэйвид Томлинсон, David Cecil MacAlister Tomlinson, |
1964
Mary Poppins
7.573/4640
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...
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Mary Poppins
1980
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
4.8/34
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...
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The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
1963
Tom Jones
5.924/210
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?
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Tom Jones
1971
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
7.029/948
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...
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks
1946
I See a Dark Stranger
6.3/23
Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her travels, she encounters J. Miller, who recruits h...
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I See a Dark Stranger
1968
The Love Bug
6.5/583
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...
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The Love Bug
1965
War-Gods of the Deep
4.855/69
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...
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War-Gods of the Deep
1951
Hotel Sahara
5.6/5
World War II farce about the hotel of the title
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Hotel Sahara
1950
The Wooden Horse
6.7/25
True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany
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The Wooden Horse
1946
School for Secrets
6.5/2
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...
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School for Secrets
1948
My Brother's Keeper
6.1/9
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...
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My Brother's Keeper
1957
Carry on Admiral
6/8
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...
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Carry on Admiral
1977
Wombling Free
9.5/2
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...
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Wombling Free
1948
Easy Money
6/6
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...
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Easy Money
1952
Made in Heaven
4/2
Residents of the small English village of Dunmow react in comical ways when the Topham family hires a beautiful and young Hungarian maid.
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Made in Heaven
1948
Miranda
6.3/22
A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue.
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Miranda
1945
Journey Together
6.1/5
Two Englishmen (Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling) train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.
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Journey Together
1951
Calling Bulldog Drummond
5.8/5
Bulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar.
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Calling Bulldog Drummond
1949
Helter Skelter
6.2/3
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
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Helter Skelter
1980
Dominique
5.2/23
The wife of a greedy man comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death.
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Dominique
1965
The Truth About Spring
7/11
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...
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The Truth About Spring
1958
Further Up the Creek
6/6
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...
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Further Up the Creek
1958
Up the Creek
5.8/4
Bumbling navy officer Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather (David Tomlinson) is transferred to HMS Berkeley, an old World War II destroyer, to keep him out...
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Up the Creek
1948
Broken Journey
6/7
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...
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Broken Journey
1941
Quiet Wedding
4.2/5
A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.
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Quiet Wedding
1949
Landfall
7/4
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...
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Landfall
1956
Three Men in a Boat
6.3/9
Three London gentlemen take a vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.
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Three Men in a Boat
1948
Here Come the Huggetts
6.4/5
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'...
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Here Come the Huggetts
1949
Vote for Huggett
6.6/5
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...
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Vote for Huggett
1950
So Long at the Fair
6.7/35
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...
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So Long at the Fair
1952
Castle in the Air
6.2/4
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...
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Castle in the Air
1941
'Pimpernel' Smith
7.1/24
Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his exca...
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'Pimpernel' Smith
1948
Sleeping Car to Trieste
6.7/9
Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.
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Sleeping Car to Trieste
1949
Marry Me
4.333/3
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...
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Marry Me
1949
The Chiltern Hundreds
5/4
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...
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The Chiltern Hundreds
1973
A Friend Indeed
0/0
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...
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A Friend Indeed
1947
The Master of Bankdam
6/1
Generational family struggles for control of a family business in 19th century Yorkshire, and to be the Master of Bankdam.
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The Master of Bankdam
1965
The Liquidator
6.2/19
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...
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The Liquidator
1945
The Way to the Stars
5.7/22
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...
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The Way to the Stars
1960
Follow That Horse!
0/0
A race horse swallows a microfilm and is pursued by the major superpowers spy agencies.
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Follow That Horse!
1948
Love in Waiting
6/1
The story of three women working as waitresses in post-World War II Britain.
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Love in Waiting
1952
The Magic Box
6.3/20
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...
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The Magic Box
1947
Fame Is the Spur
6.5/5
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...
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Fame Is the Spur
1955
All for Mary
6.2/4
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...
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All for Mary
1949
Warning to Wantons
6/1
Featuring an early role for accomplished French actress Anne Vernon alongside Mary Poppins star David Tomlinson, this effervescent comedy charts the r...
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Warning to Wantons
1978
The Water Babies
6/13
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...
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The Water Babies
1953
Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary?
5/6
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...
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Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary?
2001
Music Magic: The Sherman Brothers - Bedknobs and Broomsticks
0/0
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...
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Music Magic: The Sherman Brothers - Bedknobs and Broomsticks
1975
From Hong Kong with Love
4.7/16
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...
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From Hong Kong with Love
1941
My Wife's Family
0/0
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