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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 ...
Providian Financial Corporation was an American financial services company founded in 1997, which became one of the leading credit card issuers in the United States before it was sold to Washington Mutual for approximately US$6.5 billion in October 2005. The company emphasized borrowers with lower income and lower credit ratings.
David Holland Tomlinson (born May 8, 1969) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre. He attended Boston University on a hockey scholarship from 1987-1991. After graduating, he played in the AHL and IHL and also compiled 42 games in the NHL for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Winnipeg Jets and Florida Panthers. He also played for Canada's ...
Tomlinson was best known for his role as Mr. Banks in the 1964 Disney film Mary Poppins (in which Tomlinson famously sings the Sherman Brothers song, "The Life I Lead" and to which the title of this show refers). Tomlinson was also known for playing Professor Emelius Browne in Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) and Peter Thorndyke in The Love Bug ...
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu is a 1980 comedy film.It was the final film featuring star Peter Sellers and David Tomlinson.Based on characters created by Sax Rohmer, the film stars Sellers in the dual role of Fu Manchu, a megalomaniacal Chinese evil genius, [3] and English gentleman detective Nayland Smith.
While the origin of the term post-evangelical is uncertain, it was brought into broad usage by Dave Tomlinson and through his 1995 book of the same name. [1] Tomlinson has said that he first heard the term from a friend, although he "suspect[ed] the term had entered our consciousness surreptitiously a couple of years earlier."
The English version of the play was first staged in London's West End at the Apollo Theatre in 1962 with David Tomlinson in the lead role and then transferred to the Duchess Theatre in 1965, running for seven years. [1] After a year in the play, Tomlinson was replaced by Leslie Phillips, who played in it for two years.
Thomlinson was born in Edmonton, Alberta.He played junior hockey for the Brandon Wheat Kings.. Thomlinson is now a lawyer with the law firm of Miller Thomson LLP. He is often confused with another former professional hockey player with a very similar name - Dave Tomlinson, who later worked as a radio personality in Vancouver.