1917 - 2000
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 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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Tomlinson has received more than 2,618,329 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). David Tomlinson is the 2,730th most popular actor (down from 2,410th in 2019), the 2,454th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,286th in 2019) and the 342nd most popular British Actor.
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Among actors, David Tomlinson ranks 2,730 out of 9,996. Before him are Michel Duchaussoy, Carmen Sevilla, Jordana Brewster, Julie Adams, Maxim Munzuk, and Petra Schürmann. After him are Asia Argento, Michael Moriarty, Sarah Rafferty, Tamara Toumanova, John Spencer, and Ray Stevenson.
1938 - 2012
HPI: 50.72
Rank: 2,724
1930 - 2023
HPI: 50.72
Rank: 2,725
1980 - Present
HPI: 50.72
Rank: 2,726
1926 - 2019
HPI: 50.71
Rank: 2,727
1910 - 1999
HPI: 50.70
Rank: 2,728
1933 - 2010
HPI: 50.70
Rank: 2,729
1917 - 2000
HPI: 50.69
Rank: 2,730
1975 - Present
HPI: 50.69
Rank: 2,731
1941 - Present
HPI: 50.69
Rank: 2,732
1972 - Present
HPI: 50.69
Rank: 2,733
1919 - 1996
HPI: 50.69
Rank: 2,734
1946 - 2005
HPI: 50.68
Rank: 2,735
1964 - 2023
HPI: 50.68
Rank: 2,736
Among people born in 1917, David Tomlinson ranks 171. Before him are Imre Németh, Vasily Mishin, Steno, Olga Sanfirova, Zainab al Ghazali, and Domenico Bartolucci. After him are Asima Chatterjee, Robert Byrd, Knut Haugland, André Waterkeyn, Yuri Lyubimov, and Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin. Among people deceased in 2000, David Tomlinson ranks 138. Before him are Ioannis Mitropoulos, Leonidas Pyrgos, Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky, Rhadi Ben Abdesselam, Nancy Marchand, and Franco Rossi. After him are Teruki Miyamoto, Franco Donatoni, Adamantios Androutsopoulos, Penelope Fitzgerald, William Porter, and W. D. Hamilton.
1917 - 1989
HPI: 51.02
Rank: 165
1917 - 2001
HPI: 50.98
Rank: 166
1917 - 1988
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 167
1917 - 1944
HPI: 50.79
Rank: 168
1917 - 2005
HPI: 50.75
Rank: 169
1917 - 2013
HPI: 50.72
Rank: 170
1917 - 2000
HPI: 50.69
Rank: 171
1917 - 2006
HPI: 50.49
Rank: 172
1917 - 2010
HPI: 50.35
Rank: 173
1917 - 2009
HPI: 50.32
Rank: 174
1917 - 2005
HPI: 50.30
Rank: 175
1917 - 2014
HPI: 50.27
Rank: 176
1917 - 2002
HPI: 50.27
Rank: 177
1874 - 2000
HPI: 51.14
Rank: 132
1871 - 2000
HPI: 51.14
Rank: 133
1914 - 2000
HPI: 51.01
Rank: 134
1929 - 2000
HPI: 50.93
Rank: 135
1928 - 2000
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 136
1919 - 2000
HPI: 50.70
Rank: 137
1917 - 2000
HPI: 50.69
Rank: 138
1940 - 2000
HPI: 50.52
Rank: 139
1927 - 2000
HPI: 50.52
Rank: 140
1919 - 2000
HPI: 50.48
Rank: 141
1916 - 2000
HPI: 50.42
Rank: 142
1926 - 2000
HPI: 50.41
Rank: 143
1936 - 2000
HPI: 50.22
Rank: 144
Among people born in United Kingdom, David Tomlinson ranks 2,454 out of 7,765. Before him are Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (1621), Margaret Bondfield (1873), Catherine Carey (1523), Thomas Wyatt the Younger (1521), Frank Watson Dyson (1868), and Simon Phillips (1957). After him are Jack Clayton (1921), Ray Stevenson (1964), Tommy Flanagan (1965), Henry Dudeney (1857), Henry of Scotland (1115), and Walter Clopton Wingfield (1833).
1621 - 1683
HPI: 50.72
Rank: 2,448
1873 - 1953
HPI: 50.71
Rank: 2,449
1523 - 1569
HPI: 50.71
Rank: 2,450
1521 - 1554
HPI: 50.71
Rank: 2,451
1868 - 1939
HPI: 50.70
Rank: 2,452
1957 - Present
HPI: 50.70
Rank: 2,453
1917 - 2000
HPI: 50.69
Rank: 2,454
1921 - 1995
HPI: 50.69
Rank: 2,455
1964 - 2023
HPI: 50.68
Rank: 2,456
1965 - Present
HPI: 50.68
Rank: 2,457
1857 - 1930
HPI: 50.68
Rank: 2,458
1115 - 1152
HPI: 50.68
Rank: 2,459
1833 - 1912
HPI: 50.68
Rank: 2,460
Among actors born in United Kingdom, David Tomlinson ranks 342. Before him are Edmund Gwenn (1877), Chris Vance (1971), May Whitty (1865), Patricia Routledge (1929), Samantha Bond (1961), and Jon Finch (1942). After him are Ray Stevenson (1964), Tommy Flanagan (1965), Richard Johnson (1927), Graham McTavish (1961), John Mahoney (1940), and Simon Callow (1949).
1877 - 1959
HPI: 50.92
Rank: 336
1971 - Present
HPI: 50.89
Rank: 337
1865 - 1948
HPI: 50.87
Rank: 338
1929 - Present
HPI: 50.83
Rank: 339
1961 - Present
HPI: 50.79
Rank: 340
1942 - 2012
HPI: 50.73
Rank: 341
1917 - 2000
HPI: 50.69
Rank: 342
1964 - 2023
HPI: 50.68
Rank: 343
1965 - Present
HPI: 50.68
Rank: 344
1927 - 2015
HPI: 50.64
Rank: 345
1961 - Present
HPI: 50.63
Rank: 346
1940 - 2018
HPI: 50.60
Rank: 347
1949 - Present
HPI: 50.57
Rank: 348