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He played Michael Banks in Disney's Mary Poppins in Auckland, New Zealand. At age nine, Baldwin entered into Australia's Got Talent with his own tap dancing routine. He became that year's youngest semi-finalist, but exited the series after it fell to the judges' vote.
When first approached by Walt Disney, Johns thought it was to play the title role of Mary Poppins (played by Julie Andrews), not Mrs. Banks. To ensure she accepted, he explained the mishap over lunch and arranged for the Sherman Brothers to write her a musical number - the song " Sister Suffragette ", a prosuffrage protest song pastiche , was ...
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 ...
English actor Glynis Johns, who played the daffy suffragette mother Mrs. Banks in the classic film “Mary Poppins,” died Thursday at an assisted living home in Los Angeles, her manager Mitch ...
The 'Mary Poppins' crew is about to get a bunch more members in their cast -- and the next will be Emily Mortimer. Emily Mortimer is British enough to play a grown-up Jane Banks in Disney's Mary ...
Mary Poppins is a fictional character and the eponymous protagonist of P. L. Travers' books of the same name along with all of their adaptations. A magical English nanny, she blows in on the east wind and arrives at the Banks home at Number 17 Cherry Tree Lane, London, where she is given charge of the Banks children and teaches them valuable lessons with a magical touch. [1]
Glynis Johns, the British actor better known to audiences as the pro-suffrage mother in “Mary Poppins,” has died. She was 100. The actor’s manager of 25 years, Mitch Clem, confirmed in a ...
Karen Dotrice (/ d oʊ ˈ t r iː s / doh-TREESS; [1] born 9 November 1955) is a British actress. She is known primarily for her role as Jane Banks in Walt Disney's Mary Poppins, the feature film adaptation of the Mary Poppins book series.