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
Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley....
Objects of Affection
Character: Des
A series of plays written by Alan Bennett....
Shine on Harvey Moon
Character: Policeman
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 Rit...
Playhouse
Character: Denford
A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC....
BBC Play of the Month
Character: Soldier
A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983....
No Job for a Lady
Character: Terry
Jean Price is the newly elected, somewhat rebellious Labour MP for an inner-city constituency, and her life in the House of Commons. She's married to Geoff Price, a public defender and carer of many household chores so that Jean can pursue her new career. Jean balances her personal life with parliamentary duties, including 'women's issues', which Jean alternately fights for and is frustrated by, as other MPs think she cares about nothing else due to her gender. She often is surprised by others' ...
Wilde Alliance
Character: Shop Assistant
Wilde Alliance is a British television series created by Ian Mackintosh and produced by Yorkshire Television for the ITV network in 1978. The programme was a light-hearted mystery series about husband-and-wife amateur detectives Rupert and Amy Wilde....
Pennies from Heaven
Character: Maurice
Pennies From Heaven is a 1978 BBC television drama serial written by Dennis Potter. The title is taken from a song of the same name written by Johnny Burke and Arthur Johnston. It was one of several Potter serials to mix the reality of the drama with a dark fantasy content, and the earliest of his works where the characters burst into miming to popular 1930s songs....
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…...