MARY POPPINS STARS DID NEXT

KAREN DOTRICE DAVID TOMLINSON MATTHEW GARBER

AS WINIFRED BANKS

included roles in Disney films Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue and The Sword and the Rose.

Much later, her career got another huge boost from Poppins and she enjoyed a renaissance in films such as Dear Brigitte, Lock Up Your Daughters! and Under Milk Wood .

Her last big role was as a doting grandmother in Sandra Bullock’s 1995 romcom While You Were Sleeping, right. She died in 1999, aged 95. DAVID was a Disney favourite and appeared in films such as The Love Bug – alongside Herbie the talking Volkswagen. He hopped back on the musical merry-go-round again in Disney’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks. David had already built a strong career in British TV and film after World War II but Mary Poppins gave him his big break and took him to America, where he enjoyed great success until he retired in the early 80s.

His other films included The Water Babies, Wombling Free and the Fiendish Plot of Dr Fu Manchu. He died in 2000, aged 83.

AS MICHAEL BANKS

MATTHEW made his screen debut alongside on screen sister Karen Dotrice in The Three Lives of Thomasina. He also worked with Karen in the subsequent Disney family romp The Gnome-Mobile. Londoner Matthew quit the film business after those three movies. He contracted hepatitis 10 years later and then developed pancreatitis. He died, aged just 21, in 1977.

AS JANE BANKS

GUERNSEY-BORN Karen is from a performing arts family – her parents Roy and Kay were stage actors, and her sister Michelle played Frank Spencer’s wife Betty in Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em,

Karen landed the part of Jane Banks after appearing in 1963 hit The Three Lives of Thomasina.

It received rave reviews and Karen was then acclaimed as one of the great child actors after her time in the Banks household.

Her big roles afterwards included a part in Disney film The Gnome-Mobile. Now 63, she has three children, lives in Los Angeles and has a cameo in the new movie.

AS GEORGE. BANKS