Matthew Garber Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Matthew Adam Garber (25 March 1956 – 13 June 1977) was a British child actor. Born in Stepney, London 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 from 1968 until 1972. He enjoyed pulling practical jokes on friends, competing in sports, and reading books rich with adventure, mythology and even poetry. Garber made his screen debut at age seven in Disney's The Three Lives of Thomasina. That same year, he and Thomasina co-star Karen Dotrice were hired to play Michael and Jane, the children of... MORE

Matthew Adam Garber (25 March 1956 – 13 June 1977) was a British child actor. Born in Stepney, London 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 from 1968 until 1972. He enjoyed pulling practical jokes on friends, competing in sports, and reading books rich with adventure, mythology and even poetry. Garber made his screen debut at age seven in Disney's The Three Lives of Thomasina. 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 (Julie Andrews). 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. Garber and Dotrice paired up again in 1967 in the The Gnome-Mobile, 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. Garber had contracted hepatitis—probably from eating "bad meat" while traveling in India in 1976, and it had LESS