David Cecil MacAlister Tomlinson (7 May 1917 – 24 June 2000) was an English actor.
In spite of a prolific movie career in the 1940s and 1950s, he is mostly remembered for a string of roles in Walt Disney Pictures productions, namely uptight and neglectful patriarch George Banks in Mary Poppins, hapless car race antagonist Peter Thorndyke in The Love Bug and (not so) phony magician Emelius Browne in Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
He was posthumously inducted in the Disney Legends in 2002.
No relation to Eleanor Tomlinson.
Selected filmography:
- Miranda (1948) as Charles
- Tom Jones (1963) as Lord Fellamar
- Mary Poppins (1964) as George Banks
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) as Professor Emelius Browne
- The Love Bug (1968) as Peter Thorndyke
- Hawaii Five-O (1976) as Blake
- The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980) as Sir Roger Avery
