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Leslie Banks
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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.
Notable films
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Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Most Dangerous Game
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Went the Day Well?
As Oliver Wilsford
Henry V
As Chorus
The Small Back Room
As Col. A. K. Holland
Jamaica Inn
As Joss Merlyn
Cottage to Let
As John Barrington
The True Glory
As Commentator
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
Trapped and Playing by Someone Else’s Rules
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10 films
Second Chances
From Hitchcock to Mann, a journey through films where directors revisit their own earlier work, refining obsession into art.
8 films
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The Small Back Room
1949 · Col. A. K. Holland
The True Glory
1945 · Commentator
Henry V
1944 · Chorus
Went the Day Well?
1942 · Oliver Wilsford
Cottage to Let
1941 · John Barrington
Jamaica Inn
1939 · Joss Merlyn
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1934 · Bob Lawrence
The Most Dangerous Game
1932 · Count Zaroff