| Location | Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead, London, England |
| Age | 21 years |
| Date of Birth | 3/1956 |
| Date of Death | 6/1977 |
| Visitors | 10,616 since 24/03/2008 |
| Creator |
Name: Matthew Garber
Date of death: 13 June 1977
Age: 21
Occupation: Child Actor or Star
Where did they live?: London, England
Family: Younger Brother, Fergus Garber. Mummy and Daddy!
How did they pass away?: hemorrhagic necrotising pancreatitis form eating bad meat.
About Matthew.
Matthew 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. 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-famous.
Matthew and Karen 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.
Just found out......
After watching Mary Poppins again after many years with my Daughter, I researched the case online. I am very sad to find out the adorable little boy, Michael Banks - Matthew Garbur died 6 years before I was even born. Very sad and a life cut far too soon! RIP Matthew
Always remembered
If tears could build a stairway, and memories a lane,
I'd walk up to heaven, and bring you home again.
a flower
my dream opened up to my like a flower my dream is to be a actress and i think can do it looking back at marry Poppins there is only 1 word for you that i can think of and it's superclafragalisticexpealidosious
love holly malpass Lincolnshire england
What could you have been
I feel that I have to write a comment as I didn't know - as I am sure a lot of people don't - that Matthew had died. He had an amazing energy on screen and I wonder what he would have become? What an incredible legacy to leave behind him.
Gone But Not Forgotten.
My grandaughter courtney aged 7 & i had just watched .
Mary Poppins the other day for yet another time.
I even had to get her lyrics for some of the music .
Her favourite ( Let,s Go Fly A Kite ).
Your memory will live Forever .
x x God Bless x x .
Janet & Courtney
x x
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