Monty Banks
Biography
Monty Banks was a short, stocky but somehow debonair Italian-born comic actor, later also writer and director. In the US from 1914, he first appeared on stage in musical comedy and cabaret. By 1917 he was working as a dancer in New York's Dominguez Cafe. After this he turned to films, acting and doing stunt work at Keystone, Universal and for Al Christie. Changing his name from Mario Bianchi to Monty Banks may have been prompted by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle as a passing reference to his playing '"...
Also Known As
Montague 'Monty' Banks, Montague Banks, Mario Bianchi, Frenchie Bianchi, Монти Бенкс
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Monty Banks's Movies
Blood and Sand
30 May 1941
The Garage
11 Jan 1920
A Bell for Adano
21 Jun 1945
Atlantic
15 Nov 1929
Love
01 Mar 1919
You Made Me Love You
01 Oct 1933
The Grocery Clerk
01 Dec 1919
The Church Mouse
10 Dec 1934
A Scrap of Paper
13 Oct 1918
Shipyard Sally
30 Sept 1939
Days of Thrills and Laughter
21 Mar 1961
Pay or Move
17 Mar 1924
Don't Park Here
01 Aug 1919
Chasing Choo Choos
21 Jun 1927
Six A.M.
01 Jan 1923
Week-End Wives
14 May 1929
A Perfect Gentleman
15 Jan 1928
Man of the Moment
01 Sept 1935
Camping Out
05 Jan 1919
In and Out
17 Jul 1921