1. David Cecil MacAlister Tomlinson was an English stage, film and television actor, singer and comedian.
13 Facts About David Tomlinson
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David Cecil McAlister Tomlinson was born in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, on 7 May 1917, the son of Clarence Samuel Tomlinson, a well-respected London solicitor, and Florence Elizabeth, nee Sinclair-Thomson.
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David Tomlinson attended Tonbridge School and left to join the Grenadier Guards for 16 months.
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David Tomlinson's career was interrupted when he entered Second World War service as a Flight Lieutenant in the RAF.
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David Tomlinson played Philip Rowe, one of the three British airmen escaping from a German POW camp, in the 1950 British Film The Wooden Horse.
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David Tomlinson played the role of George Banks, head of the Banks family, in the Disney film Mary Poppins.
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David Tomlinson continued work with Disney, appearing in The Love Bug and Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
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David Tomlinson's final acting appearance was in The Fiendish Plot of Dr Fu Manchu, which was the final film of Peter Sellers.
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David Tomlinson retired from acting at age 63 to spend more time with his family.
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David Tomlinson had been widowed in 1941 when her husband, Major Armand Guy Hiddingh, was killed in action, leaving her to care for their two young sons.
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David Tomlinson died peacefully in his sleep at King Edward VII's Hospital, Westminster, at on 24 June 2000, after suffering a stroke.
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David Tomlinson was interred at his estate grounds in Mursley, Buckinghamshire.
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David Tomlinson had joked that he wanted "actor of genius, irresistible to women" as an epitaph.