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name: "Matthew Garber"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/matthew-garber"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "25 March 1956"
died: "13 June 1977"
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average_as: "actor"
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updated: "2026-09-20T04:28:13.891508+00:00"
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# Matthew Garber

Actor. Born 25 March 1956 in Stepney, London, England, UK. Died 13 June 1977.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 25 March 1956, Stepney, London, England, UK
- **Died:** 13 June 1977
- **Also known as:** Matthew Adam Garber
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Garber, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q724187, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0304955/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5830

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Mary Poppins*](https://film.one/film/mary-poppins.md) (83)

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## Biography

Matthew Adam Garber (25 March 1956 – 13 June 1977) was a British child actor. He is best known for playing Michael Banks in the Disney film *Mary Poppins* (1964), appearing alongside Karen Dotrice as his sister Jane.

Garber's other screen roles were as Geordie McNab in *The Three Lives of Thomasina* (1963) and as Rodney Winthrop in *The Gnome-Mobile* (1967), again with Dotrice. He attended St Paul's Primary School in Winchmore Hill and Highgate School in North London, graduating in 1972. His parents had both worked as theatrical actors.

In 1976, while travelling in India, Garber contracted hepatitis. He died the following year in London of haemorrhagic necrotising pancreatitis, aged 21. He was posthumously named a Disney Legend in 2004.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Mary Poppins* (1964), Fi1m 83, as Michael Banks — [page](https://film.one/film/mary-poppins.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Disney's Greatest Lullabies Volume 2* (1986), as (archive footage)
- *The Gnome-Mobile* (1967), as Rodney
- *Mary Poppins* (1964), as Michael Banks — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/mary-poppins.md)
- *The Three Lives of Thomasina* (1963), as Geordie McNab

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Disney Legends 2004: Disney Legends (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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