Spencer Banks

Known for Acting

Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK

Biography

Spencer Banks is a British actor. He was mainly active in the 1970s and is most known for appearing in Penda's Fen (1974).

Known For (21 credits)

5.0

Movie

The Amityville Playhouse

2015

Following the tragic death of her parents Fawn Harriman discovers she has inherited a theatre in the town of Amityville. She, along with 3 friends, decides to spend the weekend there looking the place over. Meanwhile one of her High School teachers begins an investigation into the village's past and makes a connection with something that goes back beyond recorded history.

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A Better Class of Person

1985

Adaptation of John Osborne's autobiography about his early life, showing his much-loved but frail father and combative relationship with his mother.

7.5

Movie

A Christmas Carol

1984

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

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Marks

1982

Les is an aimless young man, unemployed and still living with his mother. He decides to give her a present - her name tattooed on his arm…

7.0

Objects of Affection

1982

A series of plays written by Alan Bennett.

7.6

Shine on Harvey Moon

1982

Shine on Harvey Moon! is a British comedy-drama series made by Central Television for ITV from 8 January 1982 to 23 August 1985 and briefly revived in 1995 by Meridian. This generally light-hearted series was created by comedy writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. The series is set in the East End of London shortly after the Second World War. Upon being demobbed RAF serviceman Harvey Moon, played by Kenneth Cranham, returns home and finds his family involved in various troubles. His wife Rita, played by Maggie Steed, is not interested in resuming their relationship, and works in a seedy nightclub frequented by American servicemen. He becomes involved with the Labour Party and the union movement. The name of the series is a wordplay on the title of the popular 1908 song 'Shine On, Harvest Moon'. The first series was commissioned and recorded by ATV at their Elstree studios with the remaining series filmed at newly constructed facilities in Nottingham.

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No Defence

1980

Rape is a matter which generates strong emotions. Immediate sympathies go to the victim...

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The Brylcreem Boys

1979

Cpl. George Hunn's sentry post is knocked over and he wakes to find he is suffering from frost bite of the face. Sent to hospital he is put on a ward with aircrew who have mental issues. He is trapped reenacting their missions at night.

6.8

Minder

1979

Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.

7.0

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A Man Called Intrepid

1979

During World War II, a wealthy Canadian uses his own money to help the Allies form an espionage network.

6.0

The Georgian House

1976

Two children travel back in time and attempt to help a Black slave boy who possesses strange powers.

7.6

Movie

Penda's Fen

1974

Through a series of real and imagined encounters with angels, demons, and England's pagan past, a pastor's son begins to question his religion and politics, and comes to terms with his sexuality.