Matthew Garber
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{{Infobox actor
| name = Matthew Garber
| image = Dotrice Garber.jpg
| imagesize = 280px
| caption = [[Karen Dotrice]] and Matthew Garber<br />in a publicity photo for ''[[Mary Poppins (film)|Mary Poppins]]''
| birthname = Matthew Adam Garber
| birthdate = {{birth date |1956|3|25|}}
| location = [[Image:Flag of England.svg|25px]] [[Stepney]], [[London]], [[England]]
| deathdate = {{death date and age|1977|6|13|1956|3|25|df=y}}
| deathplace = [[Image:Flag of England.svg|25px]] [[Royal Free Hospital]], [[Hampstead]], [[London]], [[England]]
| notable role = Michael Banks in ''[[Mary Poppins (film)|Mary Poppins]]'' (1964)
}}
'''Matthew Adam Garber''' ([[25 March]] [[1956]]<ref>GRO Register of Births: JUN 1956 5d 746 STEPNEY - Matthew A. Garber, mmn = Ruffell</ref> – [[13 June]] [[1977]]<ref>GRO Register of Deaths: JUN 1977 12 1869 HAMPSTEAD - Matthew Adam Garber, DoB = 25 Mar 1956</ref>) was an [[English people|English]] [[actor]] best known for his role as Michael Banks in [[Walt Disney Pictures|Walt Disney's]] ''[[Mary Poppins (film)|Mary Poppins]]''. Born in [[Stepney]], [[London]], [[England]], to parents who had both performed on stage, he attended [[St Paul's Primary School]] in [[Winchmore Hill]] and [[Highgate School]] in [[Highgate]], North London.
Garber made three films for Disney, then disappeared from public life. He died in 1977 at the age of 21.
==Acting career==
Garber made his screen debut at age seven in Disney's ''[[The Three Lives of Thomasina]]'' (1964). That same year, he and ''Thomasina'' co-star [[Karen Dotrice]] were hired to play Michael and Jane, the children of George Banks ([[David Tomlinson]]), who gets more than he bargained for when he hires a nanny named [[Mary Poppins (character)|Mary Poppins]]. Disney's [[live-action/animated film]] adaptation of the ''[[Mary Poppins]]'' book series by [[P. L. Travers]] won five [[Academy Awards]] and made its stars world-[[celebrity|famous]].
Garber and Dotrice would pair up again in ''[[The Gnome-Mobile]]'' (1967) 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.
==Death==
Garber died on [[13 June]] [[1977]] at the [[Royal Free Hospital]] in [[Hampstead]], [[London]], of hemorrhagic necrotising [[pancreatitis]] at the age of 21. On [[24 October]] [[2004]], the ''[[Daily Mail|Mail on Sunday]]'' ran an interview with Fergus Garber, identified as Garber's younger brother (by eight years); he told reporters that Garber had contracted [[hepatitis]]—probably, he said, from eating "bad meat"—while traveling in [[India]] in 1976, and it had already spread to his pancreas when their father brought Garber back to England the following year. Fergus denied any suggestion that his brother was using drugs. Garber's body was later [[cremation|cremated]].
Garber was [[Posthumous recognition|posthumously]] named a [[Disney Legends|Disney Legend]] in 2004; Fergus Garber accepted on his behalf.
==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Year
!Film
!Role
|-
|rowspan="2"|[[1964 in film|1964]]
|''[[The Three Lives of Thomasina]]''
|Geordie
|-
|''[[Mary Poppins (film)|Mary Poppins]]''
|Michael Banks
|-
|[[1967 in film|1967]]
|''[[The Gnome-Mobile]]''
|Rodney Winthrop
|}
==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
*{{imdb name|id=0304955|name=Matthew Garber}}
* {{Find A Grave|id=6806485}}
*[http://legends.disney.go.com/legends/detail?key=Matthew+Garber Disney Legends profile]
*[http://www.reelclassics.com/Musicals/MaryPoppins/marypoppins-garber.htm Reel Classics: "Whatever Happened to..."]
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|NAME = Garber, Matthew
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|DATE OF BIRTH = [[1956-03-25]]
|PLACE OF BIRTH = [[London]]
|DATE OF DEATH = [[1977-06-13]]
|PLACE OF DEATH = [[Royal Free Hospital]], [[Hampstead]], [[London]]
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