Is Matthew Garber Dead or Still Alive? Matthew Garber Birthday and Date of Death

Matthew Garber Death

Matthew passed away on June 13, 1977 at the age of 21 in Hampstead, London, England, UK. Matthew's cause of death was pancreatitis.

Matthew Garber Birthday and Date of Death

Matthew Garber was born on March 25, 1956 and died on June 13, 1977. Matthew was 21 years old at the time of death.

Birthday: March 25, 1956
Date of Death: June 13, 1977
Age at Death: 21

Matthew Garber - Biography

Matthew Adam Garber (25 March 1956 – 13 June 1977) was a British child actor, best known for his role as Michael Banks in the 1964 film Mary Poppins. He also starred in two other Disney films, The Three Lives of Thomasina and The Gnome-Mobile, all three times appearing alongside actress Karen Dotrice.
Born in Stepney, London, to parents who had both performed on stage, Garber attended St Paul's Primary School in Winchmore Hill and Highgate School in Highgate, North London, from September 1968 until July 1972. He had a younger brother, Fergus Garber, who was born in 1964, the year Matthew played Michael Banks. His father's name was recorded by the school he had attended as Louis Leonard Garber. Matthew Garber was considered a spirited and bright boy in a 1967 Disney press release that noted his enjoyment of pulling practical jokes on his friends, playing sports, and reading adventure, mythology and poetry books.

Garber had unknowingly contracted hepatitis while in India in 1976-77. By the time his father was able to get him home to London (June 1977), the disease had affected his pancreas. Garber's brother Fergus, who was 13 at the time of Matthew's death, denied any suggestion that Matthew was using drugs and said the hepatitis likely came from eating bad meat. On 13 June 1977, Garber died at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, London, of haemorrhagic necrotising pancreatitis, aged 21.