Oxford-educated Leslie Banks had many celebrated stage roles at London's
Vaudeville Theatre before embarking on a cinema career. He made an immediate
impact in his debut screen role, as the demented megalomaniac Count
Zaroff in The Most Dangerous Game (1932). Later he also starred as the
reluctant hero in Alfred
Hitchcock's The
Man Who Knew Too Much (1934). Banks continued making occasional
film appearances until 1950, including Sanders of the River (1935),
Fire Over England
(1937), Cottage
To Let (1941), Went
the Day Well? (1942), Henry
V (1945) and The
Small Back Room (1949).
