# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-tomlinson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:25:45.086Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-tomlinson"
name: "David Tomlinson"
slug: "david-tomlinson"
description: "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."
tagline: "English actor (1917-2000)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mary_Poppins4.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1917-05-07"
deathDate: "2000-06-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump