<Tr> <Th> Unit </Th> <Td> Film Unit </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Battles / wars </Th> <Td> Second World War </Td> </Tr> <P> David Cecil MacAlister Tomlinson (7 May 1917--24 June 2000) was an English stage, film and television actor and comedian . Having been described as both a leading man and a character 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 . In 2002, two years after his death, Tomlinson was posthumously inducted as a Disney Legend . </P> <P> Tomlinson was born in Henley - on - Thames, Oxfordshire on 7 May 1917, to Florence Elizabeth Tomlinson (née Sinclair - Thomson) (1890 - 1986) and a well - respected London solicitor father Clarence Samuel Tomlinson (1883 - 1978). He attended Tonbridge School and left to join the Grenadier Guards for 16 months . His father then secured him a job as a clerk at Shell Mex House . </P>

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