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Leslie Banks. Highest Rated: 100% The Most Dangerous Game (1932) Lowest Rated: 52% Jamaica Inn (1939) Birthday: Jun 9, 1890. Birthplace: West Derby, England, UK. Noted British stage performer who ...
The Man Who Knew Too Much: Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Frank Vosper. An ordinary British couple vacationing in Switzerland suddenly find themselves embroiled in a case of international intrigue when their daughter is kidnapped by spies plotting a political assassination.
Leslie Banks. Leslie James Banks CBE (9 June 1890 – 21 April 1952) was an English stage and screen actor, best remembered for playing gruff, menacing characters in black-and-white films of the 1930s and 1940s, perhaps most famously among them Count Zaroff in The Most Dangerous Game (1932). Banks was often cast as villains due to half of his ...
Eye Witness: Directed by Robert Montgomery. With Ruth Lee, Robert Montgomery, Hal Osmond, Wylie Watson. In 1949, when his former British war buddy is charged with murder, American lawyer Adam Hayward goes to England to see if he can help.
One of the best and most literate movies from the great days of horror, The Most Dangerous Game stars Leslie Banks as a big-game hunter with a taste for the world’s most exotic prey—his houseguests, played by Fay Wray and Joel McCrea. Before making history with 1933’s King Kong, filmmakers Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack wowed audiences with their chilling adaptation of this ...
Noted British stage performer who made an immediate impact in his first screen role, as the demented hunter in "The Most Dangerous Game" (1932), Banks also starred in Hitchcock's 1934 version of "The Man Who Knew Too Much."
Added: Mar 10, 2016. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 159239325. Source citation. Actor, Director. Born Leslie James Banks, he was educated at Oxford University to become a parson. In 1911, he made his acting debut in regional vaudeville before moving to London theatres. During World War I, he served in the Essex Regiment in the British Army ...
