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For Two-Fer Tuesday, here are Jane and Michael Banks. These two actors, Karen Dotrice and Matthew Garber, appeared together in all three of their Disney movies--The Three Lives of Thomasina, Mary Poppins, and The Gnome-Mobile.
Karen Dotrice was born in 1955 in Guernsey, Channel Islands, to Shakespearean actors Kay and Roy Dotrice. She made her theatrical debut at age 4 in a Royal Shakespeare Company production, where a Disney scout saw her and brought her to Burbank to meet Walt Disney. As an adult, she mainly performed on TV, and her last acting performance was on stage in Othello in 1981.
Dotrice never actually saw the entire Mary Poppins film until the celebrations for the film's 50th anniversary. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, "When the movie was released in 1963, she did attend the London premiere with her mother (not to mention the Queen and Princess Margaret). 'But after half an hour my mum whisked me out because I had school the next day,' she recalls. 'She was terrified of the headmistress, same as me, so forget Walt Disney, Miss Tudor was much more important. So I never saw it.'"
Matthew Garber (1956-1977) came to Disney's attention because Roy Dotrice was a friend of the Garber family. According to D23, Garber's "use of 'artful dodges, like squinting, screwing up his nose, and brushing his hair back with one hand'” opened the gate to the Studio lot." After his Disney films Garber retired from acting. Nearly a decade later, he contracted hepatitis in India. By the time he returned to England, his pancreas was damaged, and he died of pancreatitis at age 21.
Both Dotrice and Garber were inducted as Disney Legends in 2004.
Karen Dotrice was born in 1955 in Guernsey, Channel Islands, to Shakespearean actors Kay and Roy Dotrice. She made her theatrical debut at age 4 in a Royal Shakespeare Company production, where a Disney scout saw her and brought her to Burbank to meet Walt Disney. As an adult, she mainly performed on TV, and her last acting performance was on stage in Othello in 1981.
Dotrice never actually saw the entire Mary Poppins film until the celebrations for the film's 50th anniversary. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, "When the movie was released in 1963, she did attend the London premiere with her mother (not to mention the Queen and Princess Margaret). 'But after half an hour my mum whisked me out because I had school the next day,' she recalls. 'She was terrified of the headmistress, same as me, so forget Walt Disney, Miss Tudor was much more important. So I never saw it.'"
Matthew Garber (1956-1977) came to Disney's attention because Roy Dotrice was a friend of the Garber family. According to D23, Garber's "use of 'artful dodges, like squinting, screwing up his nose, and brushing his hair back with one hand'” opened the gate to the Studio lot." After his Disney films Garber retired from acting. Nearly a decade later, he contracted hepatitis in India. By the time he returned to England, his pancreas was damaged, and he died of pancreatitis at age 21.
Both Dotrice and Garber were inducted as Disney Legends in 2004.
