Spencer Banks
Birthday: Born in in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK
Deathday: Alive
Spencer Banks is a British actor. He was mainly active in the 1970s and is most known for appearing in Penda's Fen (1974).
TV Credits
Timeslip
Character: Martin Clifford
Simon Randall and Liz Skinner discover the existence of a strange anomaly, known as the “Time Barrier”, that enables them to travel in time to different historical periods in alternate pasts and futures....
Play for Today
Character: Stephen
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration....
Minder
Character: Keith
This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley....
Objects of Affection
Character: Des
A series of plays written by Alan Bennett....
Movie Credits
A Better Class of Person
Character: Raymond
Adaptation of John Osborne's autobiography about his early life, showing his much-loved but frail father and combative relationship with his mother....
Living at Thamesmead
Character: Tom Aidie
Documentary-style account of a young couple who live in Thamesmead. The film shows the architecture and landscape of Thamesmead as well as the day to day lives of the residents....
Diamonds on Wheels
Character: Charlie Todd
Three kids get mixed up with jewel thieves and stolen diamonds in a 24-hour road rally....
A Man Called Intrepid
Character:
During World War II, a wealthy Canadian uses his own money to help the Allies form an espionage network....
The Amityville Playhouse
Character: Rev. Simon Randall
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....
The Brylcreem Boys
Character: Denford
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....
Penda's Fen
Character: Stephen Franklin
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....
Dear Parents
Character: (Uncredited)
An Italian woman who has not heard from her daughter for a while travels to London, where the daughter is living, and is shocked to be confronted with the young woman's world. During the brief days they spend together, the women come to acknowledge the insurmountable differences that exist between them despite the love they share....
No Defence
Character: PC Knox
Rape is a matter which generates strong emotions. Immediate sympathies go to the victim......
A Christmas Carol
Character: Dick Wilkins
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....
Marks
Character: Des
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…...