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David Tomlinson
David Cecil MacAlister Tomlinson (7 May 1917 – 24 June 2000) was an English film actor. He is primarily remembered for his roles as authority figure George Banks in Mary Poppins, fraudulent magician Professor Emelius Brown in Bedknobs and Broomsticks and as hapless antagonist Peter Thorndyke in The...
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Bedknobs and Broomsticks is a 1971 musical film produced by Walt Disney Productions which combines live action and animation and was released in North America on December 13, 1971. It is based upon the books The Magic Bed Knob; or, How to Become a...
Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins is a 1964 musical film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, produced by Walt Disney, and based on the Mary Poppins books series by P. L. Travers with illustrations by Mary Shepard. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson and...
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Miranda
Miranda is a 1948 British comedy film, directed by Ken Annakin and written by Peter Blackmore, who also wrote the play of the same name the film is based on. Denis Waldock provided additional dialogue. A light comedy, the film is about a beautiful...
The Love Bug
The Love Bug was the first in a series of movies made by Walt Disney Productions that starred a white Volkswagen racing Beetle named Herbie. It was based on the 1961 book Car, Boy, Girl by Gordon Buford. The movie follows the adventures of Herbie,...
The Wooden Horse
The Wooden Horse is a Second World War film based on true events in the German POW camp Stalag Luft III, which were also described in the book of the same name by Eric Williams, who also wrote the screenplay. Actors starring include Leo Genn,...
The Way to the Stars
The Way to the Stars, also known as Johnny in the Clouds, is a 1945 war drama film made by Two Cities Films and released by United Artists. It was produced by Anatole de Grunwald and directed by Anthony Asquith. The screenplay was written by Terence...
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu is a 1980 comedy film, notable as the final film to star Peter Sellers and David Tomlinson. The pre-production began with Richard Quine as the director. By the time production began Piers Haggard was the director...
The Water Babies
The Water Babies is a 1978 animated feature film based on the book The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley.
When a 12-year-old chimney sweep is wrongfully blamed for being a thief, he makes a run for it, he jumps into a violent river. There he...
War-Gods of the Deep
War-Gods of the Deep (also known as The City Under the Sea) is a 1965 science fiction film. It was director by Jacques Tourneur and starred Vincent Price, Tab Hunter and David Tomlinson. The plot concerns the discovery of a lost city beneath the sea...
Wombling Free
Wombling Free was a 1977 film adaption of the children's television series The Wombles.
The Womble characters were portrayed by dwarf actors Kenny Baker, Eileen Baker, Sadie Corre, Tony Friel, John Lummiss, Jack Purvis, Albert Wilkinson and Marcus...
Calling Bulldog Drummond
Calling Bulldog Drummond is a 1951 British spy film directed by Victor Saville and featuring Walter Pidgeon, Margaret Leighton, Robert Beatty, David Tomlinson, and Bernard Lee. It featured the character Bulldog Drummond created by the novelist...
So Long at the Fair
So Long at the Fair is a 1950 British thriller film directed by Terence Fisher and Anthony Darnborough, and starring Jean Simmons and Dirk Bogarde. It was adapted from the 1947 novel of the same name by Anthony Thorne. The novel itself was based on...
Vote for Huggett
Vote for Huggett (1949) is a British film starring Jack Warner as the head of a London family, in the post-war years. It was the second in the Huggetts Trilogy, after 1948's Here Come the Huggetts. In it, Joe Huggett decides to run as a candidate in...
Here Come the Huggetts
Here Come the Huggetts (1948) is a British film, the first of a trio about a working class English family. All three films were directed by Ken Annakin and released by Gainsborough Pictures.
Jack Warner and Kathleen Harrison headed the cast as...
Bons baisers de Hong Kong
Bons baisers de Hong Kong (From Hong Kong with Love) is a 1975 French film directed by Yvan Chiffre. It is a parody of James Bond movies featuring Les Charlots. Several actors from official James Bond movies played their role in this comedy notably...
