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  • Bedknobs and Broomsticks
  • Bedknobs and Broomsticks review by A customer from
    Rated - 4.0 stars Lansbury and Tomlinson shine. 16 June 2011
    ...Angela Lansbury and David Tomlinson shine in this warm-hearted fantasy. Also contains possibly the best animated football match of all time. A joy....   Read customer review
  • Up The Creek
  • Up The Creek review by SolarvanMan from North Yorkshire
    Rated - 3.0 stars Merryweather Mk1 12 March 2005
    ...heming Chief Petty Officer. Wilfred Hyde White shines as the Commodore, as does David Tomlinson as the hopeless and inept Captain. Recommended as a lighthearted classic Briti...   Read customer review
  • Further Up The Creek
  • Further Up The Creek review by HD from Birmingham
    Rated - 3.0 stars A good British comedy... 24 March 2005
    ...the most incompetent officer in the navy, Lt. Fairweather played brilliantly by David Tomlinson to captain the ship. The task then for the crew, once everyone?s on board, is t...   Read customer review

David Tomlinson - filmography


  • The Water Babies (1978)
    Starring: James Mason,  Billie Whitelaw,  Bernard Cribbins
    Director: Lionel Jeffries
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Charles Kingsley's classic magical children's tale of Tom, a twelve year-old boy who is apprenticed to the unkind Master Chimney Sweep, Grimes. Life is tough for Tom - while he sweeps, Grimes and his unpleasant sidekick, Masterman, busy themselves thieving. Live action and animation.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 965 members
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  • Wombling Free (1977)
    Starring: David Tomlinson,  Frances De La Tour,  Bonnie Langford
    Director: Lionel Jeffries
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    Based on the long running TV series, WOMBLING FREE has the adorable Wombles facing two struggles. Whilst they continue to wage their ongoing war against litter after being invited to a child's birthday party, they have to prove their existence to the people of Wimbledon common.
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 502 members
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  • Bedknobs and Broomsticks on DVD (1971)
    Starring: John Ericson,  Cindy O'Callaghan,  Roy Smart
    Director: Robert Stevenson
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    In England during World War II, three young kids are forced to evacuate their home and move in with the eccentric Eglantine Price (Angela Lansbury). At first the youths are unhappy--until they discover that Eglantine is studying to become a witch. Eglantine teaches the children magic, using her new ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 9,766 members
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  • Mary Poppins on DVD (1964)
    Starring: Julie Andrews,  Dick Van Dyke,  David Tomlinson
    Director: Robert Stevenson
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Embraced by millions around the world, Mary Poppins is one of Disney's most enchanting fantasies and the motion-picture hit that made "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" a household word! Julie Andrews, in her Oscar winning performance, stars as the loveable nanny who soars out of the skies and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 17,657 members
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  • Tom Jones (1963)
    Starring: Albert Finney,  Susannah York,  Diane Cilento
    Director: Tony Richardson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Tony Richardson's rousing adaptation of Fielding's classic comic novel, a sharp change of pace for a director of choleric contemporary fare, stars Albert Finney as the eponymous swordsman. A foundling whose mother is thought to be a housemaid (Joyce Redman), he's raised by her employer, the aptly ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 1,620 member
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  • Further Up The Creek (1958)
    Starring: Frankie Howerd,  Shirley Eaton,  David Tomlinson
    Director: Val Guest
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Further Up The Creek Serves Up Nautical Naughtiness Aplenty! The Royal Navy has finally entered the nuclear age and is selling off its obsolete old frigates to the Arabs. First to go is HMS Aristotle the secret shame of the Fleet! Under the temporary command of Bosun Dibble (Frankie Howerd), the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 284 members
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  • Up The Creek on DVD (1958)
    Starring: David Tomlinson,  Peter Sellers,  Suraiya Hyder
    Director: Val Guest
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The forgotten H.M.S. Berkley has been without a commanding officer for two years in which time the skeleton crew has gone into the racketeering business with the landlord of a coastal village. When the Navy appoint Humphrey Fairweather as a long overdue replacement his unhealthy obsession with ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 388 members
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  • Three Men in a Boat on DVD (1956)
    Starring: Jimmy Edwards,  David Tomlinson,  Laurence Harvey
    Director: Ken Annakin
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    Three friends escape their dull lives by taking a leisurely excursion along the Thames in a small boat. However their planned restful journey is interrupted by a number of comic mishaps and adventures, as well as complications of a romantic nature as they cross paths with ladies such as Sophie ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 348 members
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  • The Wooden Horse on DVD (1950)
    Starring: David Tomlinson,  Leo Green
    Director: Jack Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    War drama, where a bunch of British prisoners of war attempt to escape from a Nazi prison camp by tunnelling under a vaulting horse. Based on a novel by Eric Williams.
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 364 members
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  • Landfall on DVD (1949)
    Starring: Michael Denison,  Patricia Plunkett,  Kathleen Harrison
    Director: Ken Annakin
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Landfall takes place during the early portions of WWII. RAF pilot Rick (Michael Denison) is transferred to another squadron after sinking a British sub during a bombing raid. Disgraced, Rick has no one to turn to, save for sympathetic barmaid Mona (Patricia Plunkett). With her help, the pilot is ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 70 members
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  • My Brother's Keeper on DVD (1948)
    Starring: Jack Warner,  Jane Hylton,  David Tomlinson
    Director: Alfred Roome
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    George Martin (Jack Warner) and Willie Stannard (George Cole) are handcuffed together and on their way to a West Country jail when they escape and go on the run. Martin is a hardened, dangerous criminal, but Stannard is a simple-minded youth who claims he is innocent of the crime for which he is ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 31 members
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  • The Master Of Bankdam on DVD (1947)
    Starring: Anne Crawford,  Dennis Price,  Tom Walls
    Director: Walter Forde
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    An epic film drama on the lives of three generations of Yorkshire mill-owners during Britain's turbulent Industrial Revolution. Simeon Crowther (Tom Walls) decides to hand over the family textile mill of Bankdam to his two sons, Joshua (Dennis Price) and Zebediah (Stephen Murray). But Zebediah's ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 52 members
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  • Journey Together on DVD (1943)
    Starring: Richard Attenborough,  Jack Watling,  David Tomlinson
    Director: John Boulting
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Originally produced by the RAF Film Unit in 1943 as a public information film which tells the story of the arduous training of pilots, bombers and navigators during World War II. Starring Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling, David Tomlinson and Edward G. Robinson.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 92 members
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