Christopher Banks

Acting

Known For & Full Filmography24 Titles

#1The Professionals

Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes as Mitchell

7.6 / 10
Action & AdventureCrimeDrama

The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.

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#2Theatre 625

Drama Series - 1964, 16 episodes as Vicar

7.2 / 10
Drama

Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.

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#3Sykes

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes as Magistrate

6.7 / 10
Comedy

Classic sitcom starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques as brother and sister twins who have to tackle the trials and tribulations of suburban life.

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#4Churchill's People

Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes as Clerk

5.0 / 10
DramaWar & Politics

Churchill's People is a British anthology series based on A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Winston Churchill's four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies. 26 episodes were produced by the BBC and initially broadcast from 30 December 1974 to 23 June 1975.

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#5Centre Play

Drama Series - 1973, 16 episodes as The Husband

7.0 / 10
Drama

Anthology series of half hour plays produced in BBC's Television Centre's studios.

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#6Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes as Vicar

6.5 / 10
MysteryDrama

A short-lived anthology television series from Hammer Studios. Though similar in format to the 1980 series Hammer House of Horror, the Mystery and Suspense series had feature-length episodes, usually running around 70 minutes without commercials. Co-produced by Hammer Studios with 20th Century Fox Television, it is known in the United States as Fox Mystery Theater. Unlike 1980's Hammer House of Horror, all episodes feature American actors as either the leads or in key roles. It first broadcast in the UK on ITV in 1984, though was not simulcast and was shown in different timeslots throughout the various regions.

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#7Lady Killers

Drama Series - 1980, 16 episodes as Mr. Justice Bucknill

7.5 / 10
CrimeDrama

Compelling crime anthology looks at some of Britain's most notorious murder trials, in which both male and female defendants stood accused of the murder of women. Presented by Robert Morley, seven hour-long dramas reconstruct sensational trials which shocked Britain, offering in-depth analyses of individuals' motives and methods.

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#8The Edwardians

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes as Mr Justice Salter

6.2 / 10
Drama

The Edwardians is an eight-part miniseries broadcast in 1972–73. An anthology, each 90-minute episode explores influential figure(s) of the Edwardian era: Charles Rolls and Henry Royce; Horatio Bottomley; E. Nesbit; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Robert Baden-Powell; Marie Lloyd; Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick; and David Lloyd George.

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#9Londoners

Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes as Hurst

8.8 / 10
Drama

London itself takes the starring role in this series of plays from the BBC – a role which varies between hero and villain, enchantress and harpy. The series features extensive location filming, ranging from Soho to the Law Courts, Wembley to the docks. Of the twelve episodes, eleven are believed to be lost.

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#10Diana

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes as Antoine

6.5 / 10
Drama

The very different lives of Jan Leigh, a poor but studious young country lad, and Diana Gayelorde-Sutton, the equally single minded daughter of a rich landowner, from the 1920s through to post-war Britain.

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#11A Sharp Intake of Breath

Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes as Vicar, St Michael's

7.2 / 10
Comedy

British sitcom in which happy-go-lucky character Peter Barnes comically and haphazardly tries to deal with the daily frustrations his life throws at him.

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#12The Legend of Robin Hood

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes as Prior

7.4 / 10
Action & AdventureDrama

The Legend of Robin Hood was a 1975 BBC television serial that told the story of the life of Robin Hood.

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#13Malice Aforethought

Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes as Judge

6.0 / 10
MysteryDramaComedy

Malice Aforethought is a four-part 1979 BBC Two miniseries by Philip Mackie, adapted from Anthony Berkeley Cox's (pen name Francis Iles) 1931 noir novel of the same name. For ten years, Julia Bickleigh has despised and bullied her husband. For ten years Dr Bickleigh has dreamed of romance ... and escape.

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#14The Carnforth Practice

Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes as Judge

10.0 / 10
Drama

A six-part BBC2 drama about the Honourable Greville Carnforth, an aristocratic solicitor based in a small village community in the Lake District.

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#15Jude the Obscure

Drama Series - 1971, 16 episodes as College Servant

5.0 / 10
Drama

Jude the Obscure is a British television serial directed by Hugh David and dramatised by Harry Green, based on Thomas Hardy's 1895 novel of the same name. Born into poverty, young Jude Fawley refuses to accept his lot in life. As his dreams are shattered one by one, his life gradually descends into tragedy.

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#16The Strange World of Gurney Slade

Drama Series - 1960, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

8.3 / 10
ComedySci-Fi & Fantasy

Anthony Newley stars as an actor who walks off the set of a banal sit-com and into a fantasy world of his own imagination in this surreal odyssey through one man's personal alternative reality.

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#17They Came from Beyond Space

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m as Doctor - Street

5.2 / 10
Sci-FiAdventure

When meteors in a curious V-formation crash on a Cornwall field, an alien force possesses several scientists and infects bystanders with a deadly disease. Shielded from the meteor's influence by a metal plate in his head, Dr Curtis Temple discovers that an alien race on the moon seeks to use the manipulated geniuses for seemingly nefarious purposes. But, as he learns more about the invaders, they may not be as evil as initially thought.

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#18The Spoils of Poynton

Drama Series - 1970, 16 episodes as Mr Vetch

6.7 / 10
Drama

When her husband dies, Mrs Adele Gereth quarrels with her carefree son Owen over the family estate and his desire to marry for love, not money.

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#19Only Connect

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m as E.M. Forster

8.8 / 10
Drama

When researching the UK labour movement at the turn of the twentieth century, Graham discovers the pioneering socialist and gay rights campaigner Edward Carpenter.

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#20The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams

Movie - 1986, 2h 15m as Male Mourner

5.8 / 10
CrimeDrama

In 1956, the ultra-respectable seaside resort of Eastbourne was shocked when a local doctor, John Bodkin Adams, was arrested for murdering one of his elderly patients.

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#21The Embezzler

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m as Vicar

7.3 / 10

Bank robber's plans for a wealthy lifestyle gradually turn to more noble aims.

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#22In the Labyrinth

Movie - 1976, 2h 15m as Husband

9.0 / 10

After 30 years apart, a man is reunited with his mother, who resides on a psychiatric ward.

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#23The Stone Tape

Movie - 1972, 2h 15m as Vicar

6.1 / 10
HorrorTV MovieMystery

A research team from an electronics company move into an old Victorian house to start work on finding a new recording medium. When team member Jill Greeley witnesses a ghost, team director Peter Brock decides not only to analyse the apparition, which he believes is a psychic impression trapped in a stone wall (dubbed a "stone tape"), but to exorcise it too - with terrifying results...

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#24Danton's Death

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m as 2nd Gentleman

9.0 / 10
DramaHistoryTV Movie

Danton's Death is arguably the most dramatic and penetrating study of revolution ever written. Georg Büchner concentrates on that moment in 1794 when the Reign of Terror, already well established, spills over into a total blood-bath. The play, adapted by director Alan Clarke and Stuart Griffiths, both highly imaginative and closely documentary, shows how the great hero of the early phase of the Revolution, Danton, sickened by the excesses of the guillotine, which he helped to create, wants to call a halt. But Robespierre and Saint-Just, leaders of the Jacobins, with a ferocious puritanical zeal, spur on 'the wild horses of the Revolution'.

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