Matthew Adam Garber (25 March 1956 – 13 June 1977) was a British actor best known for his role as Michael Banks in Walt Disney's Mary Poppins. Born in Stepney, London to parents who had both performed on stage, he attended St Paul's Primary School in Winchmore Hill and Highgate School in Highgate, North London.
Garber made his screen debut at age seven in Disney's The Three Lives of Thomasina. That same year, he and Thomasina co-star Karen Dotric...
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Matthew Adam Garber (25 March 1956 – 13 June 1977) was a British actor best known for his role as Michael Banks in Walt Disney's Mary Poppins. Born in Stepney, London to parents who had both performed on stage, he attended St Paul's Primary School in Winchmore Hill and Highgate School in Highgate, North London.
Garber made his screen debut at age seven in Disney's The Three Lives of Thomasina. That same year, he and Thomasina co-star Karen Dotrice were hired to play Michael and Jane, the children of George Banks (David Tomlinson), who gets more than he bargained for when he hires a nanny named Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews). Disney's live-action/animated film adaptation of the Mary Poppins book series by P. L. Travers won five Academy Awards and made its stars world-famous.
Garber and Dotrice would pair up again in 1967's The Gnome-Mobile as the grandchildren of a rich lumber mogul (Walter Brennan) who stumble across a gnome forest and are asked to help keep the gnomes from dying off....
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