
Acting
Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK
Spencer Banks
Acting
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).
Feature Films (11)

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

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.
Living at Thamesmead

Three kids get mixed up with jewel thieves and stolen diamonds in a 24-hour road rally.
Diamonds on Wheels

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 Amityville Playhouse

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.
The Brylcreem Boys

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.
Penda's Fen

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.
Dear Parents

Rape is a matter which generates strong emotions. Immediate sympathies go to the victim...
No Defence

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.
A Christmas Carol

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…
Marks

A play about a young man's experiences in his first job and in becoming a member of the Union.
Trade Unions: Seven Days that Shook Young Jim
Television & Series (17)

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.
Timeslip

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.
Play for Today

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.








