Leslie Banks
Birthday: 1890-06-09
Place of Birth: West Derby, Liverpool, England, UK
Biography: Leslie Banks, CBE (9 June 1890 – 21 April 1952) was an English theatre and cinema actor, director and producer, now best remembered playing gruff, menacing characters in black and white movies of the 1930s and 1940s. Description above from the Wikipedia article Leslie Banks, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies
The Most Dangerous Game
When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious is...
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Fire Over England
The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the E...
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Went the Day Well?
The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their tas...
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attemp...
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Jamaica Inn
In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the rem...
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The Tunnel
An engineer leads the building of a trans-Atlantic tunnel linking Britain and the United States....
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The Small Back Room
As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on 1943 Britain, the embittered expert who'll have to disa...
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21 Days Together
After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested fo...
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The Door with Seven Locks
A wealthy lord dies and is entombed with a valuable deposit of jewels. Seven keys are required to un...
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Madeleine
Madeleine's middle-class family cannot understand why she puts off marrying a respectable young man,...
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The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
During a charity football match between Arsenal and touring amateur side Trojans, the Trojan's new s...
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Cottage to Let
Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hosp...
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Your Witness
Adam Hayward is a successful New York City defense lawyer. One day he receives a cable that the Brit...
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Inspired by Edmond Rostand's 1897 play, this 1938 BBC Television studio production retells the comic...
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Sanders of the River
A British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930s rules his area strictly but justly. He struggles ...
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Red Ensign
David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard in decline. The shipyard is in fi...
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Busman's Honeymoon
When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for ...
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Sons of the Sea
The head of Dartmouth Training College has been murdered, and his successor, Captain Hyde, suspects ...
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The Big Blockade
Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early y...
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Ships with Wings
Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for...
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The Three Maxims
The Three Maxims are trapeze artists Pat (Anna Neagle), Toni (Tuilio Carminati) and Mac (Leslie Bank...
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I Am Suzanne!
A dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. The...
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Neutral Port
A British merchant ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and takes shelter in a neutral port. The Cap...
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The Fire Raisers
Jim Bronton is an insurance investigator, but he's unhappy with his work and gets involved with a ga...
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The Night of the Party
A major newspaper publisher dies in suspicious circumstances during a parlour game at a dinner party...
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Farewell Again
Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've...
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Henry V
In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the co...
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Dead Man's Shoes
An amnesia victim is a well liked and respected member of his community--until one day someone from ...
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Debt of Honour
A Colonel's daughter steals from the regimental mess funds to pay off her gambling debts. One of the...
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Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily ...
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The True Glory
A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage...
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Mrs. Fitzherbert
The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fit...
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Experience
Youth meets Ambition and leaves Love, his mother, and his small-town roots for the big city. There, ...
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