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David Tomlinson

1917 - 2000

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David Cecil MacAlister Tomlinson (7 May 1917 – 24 June 2000) was an English stage, film, and television actor, singer and comedian. Having been described as both a leading man and a character actor, he is primarily remembered for his roles with The Walt Disney Company as authoritarian father 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Tomlinson has received more than 2,769,239 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). David Tomlinson is the 2,598th most popular actor (up from 2,726th in 2019), the 2,312th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,448th in 2019) and the 319th most popular British Actor.

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  • 2.8M

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  • 52.41

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, David Tomlinson ranks 2,598 out of 13,578Before him are Vernon Wells, Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Yvonne Furneaux, Kate Walsh, Rachel Roberts, and Yevgeny Vakhtangov. After him are Lee Jung-jae, Zlatko Burić, Luis Mariano, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Jane Badler, and Margaux Hemingway.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, David Tomlinson ranks 161Before him are Red Auerbach, Leopoldo Trieste, June Allyson, Philipp von Boeselager, Zainab al Ghazali, and Fadwa Tuqan. After him are Suzy Delair, Ivan Bodiul, Imre Németh, Olga Sanfirova, Bertil Nordahl, and Aníbal Paz. Among people deceased in 2000, David Tomlinson ranks 132Before him are Jean Peters, Edward Gorey, Charles Gray, Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei, Ferenc Farkas, and Poul Hartling. After him are Adamantios Androutsopoulos, Spyros Markezinis, Jerzy Giedroyc, Gus Hall, Jean Carzou, and Antti Hyvärinen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Tomlinson ranks 2,312 out of 8,785Before him are Jackie Oliver (1942), Claude Rains (1889), Teddy Sheringham (1966), Veronica Cartwright (1949), John Playfair (1748), and Rachel Roberts (1927). After him are John Scott Haldane (1860), Murray Head (1946), Martin Donnelly (1964), John Machin (1680), Edward Wilson (1872), and Julian Bream (1933).

Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, David Tomlinson ranks 319Before him are Charles Gray (1928), Richard Johnson (1927), Sylvester McCoy (1943), Claude Rains (1889), Veronica Cartwright (1949), and Rachel Roberts (1927). After him are Murray Head (1946), Jamie Dornan (1982), Sarah Siddons (1755), Patrick Troughton (1920), Ray Cooney (1932), and John Mahoney (1940).