FrameThrower · Actors · David Tomlinson
David Tomlinson
2 films · 186 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1964–2025
Born 7 May 1917 · Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire, England, UK · died 24 June 2000
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David Cecil MacAlister Tomlinson was an English film 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.
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 186 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1964–2025
- Disney Legends2002
How their films are shot
Measured across 186 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work David takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 61% of their frames are night, 52% low key — the look of the work David takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 186 frames from David Tomlinson's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.