Leslie Banks

Born: 1890-06-09

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.


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Jamaica Inn

as Joss Merlyn
Released: 1939-05-11

In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to...

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The Man Who Knew Too Much

as Bob Lawrence
Released: 1934-12-01

While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination...

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Henry V

as Chorus
Released: 1944-11-24

In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the...

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The Most Dangerous Game

as Count Zaroff
Released: 1932-09-16

When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a...

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Fire Over England

as The Earl of Leicester
Released: 1937-03-05

The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on...

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The Small Back Room

as Col. A. K. Holland
Released: 1949-02-21

At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on...

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21 Days Together

as Keith Durrant
Released: 1940-01-07

After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is...

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Went the Day Well?

as Oliver Wilsford
Released: 1942-12-07

The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their...

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Madeleine

as James Smith
Released: 1950-02-16

The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a...

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The True Glory

as Commentator
Released: 1945-10-04

A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the...

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The Door with Seven Locks

as Dr. Manetta
Released: 1940-10-12

A wealthy lord dies and is entombed with a valuable deposit of jewels. Seven keys are required...

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Farewell Again

as Col. Harry Blair
Released: 1937-01-05

Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people...

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I Am Suzanne!

as Adolpe 'Baron' Herring
Released: 1933-12-25

A dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. ...

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Mrs. Fitzherbert

as Charles Fox
Released: 1947-12-03

The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs....

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Sons of the Sea

as Capt. Hyde
Released: 1939-12-23

The head of Dartmouth Training College has been murdered, and his successor, Captain Hyde,...

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The Tunnel

as Frederick 'Robbie' Robbins
Released: 1935-10-27

An engineer leads the building of a trans-Atlantic tunnel linking Britain and the United States.

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Your Witness

as Col. Roger Summerfield
Released: 1950-03-06

Adam Hayward is a successful New York City defense lawyer. One day he receives a cable that the...

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Cottage to Let

as John Barrington
Released: 1941-09-06

Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime...

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Sanders of the River

as Commissioner R.G. Sanders
Released: 1935-05-10

A British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930s rules his area strictly but justly. He...

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Wings of the Morning

as Lord Clontarf
Released: 1937-02-19

A beautiful Gypsy girl falls in love with a horse trainer.

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Red Ensign

as David Barr
Released: 1934-06-17

David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard in decline. The shipyard is...

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The Arsenal Stadium Mystery

as Anthony Slade
Released: 1939-11-01

During a charity football match between Arsenal and touring amateur side Trojans, the Trojan's...

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Ships with Wings

as Vice Adm. David Wetherby
Released: 1941-11-10

Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working...

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Black Shadows on a Silver Screen

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1975-04-19

Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a...

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Busman's Honeymoon

as Inspector Kirk
Released: 1940-07-22

When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime...

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Dead Man's Shoes

as Roger de Vetheuil
Released: 1940-05-05

An amnesia victim is a well liked and respected member of his community--until one day someone...

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The Night of the Party

as Sir John Holland
Released: 1934-07-16

A major newspaper publisher dies in suspicious circumstances during a parlour game at a dinner...

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The Big Blockade

as Taylor
Released: 1942-01-19

Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the...

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The Fire Raisers

as Jim Bronton
Released: 1934-01-22

Jim Bronton is an insurance investigator, but he's unhappy with his work and gets involved with...

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The Three Maxims

as Mac
Released: 1936-01-01

The Three Maxims are trapeze artists Pat (Anna Neagle), Toni (Tuilio Carminati) and Mac (Leslie...

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Debt of Honour

as Maj. Jimmie Stanton
Released: 1936-11-02

A Colonel's daughter steals from the regimental mess funds to pay off her gambling debts. One of...

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