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Leslie James Banks was an English stage and screen actor, director and producer, now best remembered for playing gruff, menacing characters in black-and-white films of the 1930s and 1940s, but also th
Banks in The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
Theatrical release poster for The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
The Most Dangerous Game is a 1932 American pre-Code horror film directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel, and starring Joel McCrea, Fay Wray and Leslie Banks. The movie is an adaptation of t
Leslie Banks
…Atlantic, and it was when he was in New York that Kenneth Macgowan persuaded him to go to Hollywood and make his first credited movie debut there in The Most Dangerous Game in 1932. His formidable bulk and intimidating aspect served him well in his first important film role, as a diabolical Russian hunter of human prey in…
Theatrical film poster
Fay Wray and Joel McCrea in a scene from the film
(L-R) Fay Wray, Steve Clemente, and Leslie Banks