He loved being naughty, finding and jumping off of small buildings on the back lot. I can't imagine making movies would have been half as much fun without him.
Garber and Dotrice teamed up again in 1967 in 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.ĭotrice recalled, "He was how he looked-an imp, and I loved being his shadow.
Travers won five Academy Awards and made its stars world-famous.
MATTHEW BANKS 11 PLACE SERIES
Disney's live-action animated film adaptation of the Mary Poppins book series by P. Winifred Banks ( Glynis Johns), who get more than they bargained for when they hire a nanny named Mary Poppins ( Julie Andrews). That same year, both Garber and Thomasina co-star Dotrice were hired to play Jane and Michael, the children of Mr. Career Īs a friend of the Garber family, Karen Dotrice's father, Shakespearean actor Roy Dotrice, called Garber to the attention of Disney Casting, where his use of "artful dodges, like squinting, screwing up his nose, and brushing his hair back with one hand" led to his screen debut at age seven in Disney's The Three Lives of Thomasina (1963). Matthew Garber was considered a spirited and bright boy in a 1967 Disney press release that noted his enjoyment of pulling practical jokes on his friends, playing sports, and reading adventure, mythology and poetry books. His father's name was recorded by the school he had attended as Louis Leonard Garber. He had a younger brother, Fergus Garber, who was born in 1964, the year Matthew played Michael Banks. All three appearances were in movies by Walt Disney Pictures.īorn in Stepney, London, to parents who had both performed on stage, Garber attended St Paul's Primary School in Winchmore Hill and Highgate School in Highgate, North London, from September 1968 until July 1972. He appeared in only two other films, The Three Lives of Thomasina and The Gnome-Mobile, all three times appearing alongside actress Karen Dotrice. Matthew Adam Garber (25 March 1956 – 13 June 1977) was a British child actor who most notably played Michael Banks in the 1964 film Mary Poppins.
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