David Tomlinson

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 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''. Tomlinson was posthumously inducted as a Disney Legend in 2002. Provided by Wikipedia