Lionel Banks

Personal Info

Know For

Art

Gender

Male

Birthday

1901-06-22 (49 years old)

Deathday

1950-03-20

Place of Birth

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Lionel Banks

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia With over 200 films to his credit, Lionel Banks (born June 22, 1901, Salt Lake City, Utah - died March 20, 1950, Los Angeles, California) was a hard-working art director from 1935 to 1949. In that time he worked on such films as Leo McCarey’s The Awful Truth (1937), Howard Hawks’ South American set Only Angels Have Wings (1939) and his rapid fire comedy classic the following year His Girl Friday, most of the Blondie B-movies, Alexander Hall’s turn of the century fantasy Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) and Charles Vidor’s lush Chopin biopic, A Song to Remember in 1945. Banks was nominated for an Oscar seven...

Production

1938

Penitentiary

as Art Direction

1942

Blondie Goes to College

as Art Direction

1942

Blondie for Victory

as Art Direction

1943

It's a Great Life

as Art Direction

1941

Blondie Goes Latin

as Art Direction

1943

Footlight Glamour

as Art Direction

1942

Blondie's Blessed Event

as Art Direction

1939

1949

Siren of Atlantis

as Set Designer

1939

Blondie Brings Up Baby

as Art Direction

1939

Blondie Takes a Vacation

as Art Direction

1940

Blondie on a Budget

as Art Direction

1940

1939

Blondie Meets the Boss

as Art Direction

1940

Blondie Plays Cupid

as Art Direction

1941

Blondie in Society

as Art Direction

1942

My Sister Eileen

as Art Direction

1946

Heartbeat

as Production Design

1941

Here Comes Mr. Jordan

as Art Direction

1944

Secret Command

as Art Direction

1941

You Belong to Me

as Art Direction

1944

Swing in the Saddle

as Art Direction

1939

The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt

as Art Direction

1942

Meet the Stewarts

as Art Direction

1943

The Desperadoes

as Art Direction

1940

The Lady in Question

as Art Direction

1938

Holiday

as Assistant Art Director

1941

Sweetheart of the Campus

as Art Direction

1941

Mystery Ship

as Art Direction

1941

Roaring Frontiers

as Art Direction

1944

Two-Man Submarine

as Art Direction

1942

You Were Never Lovelier

as Art Direction

1944

The Black Parachute

as Art Direction

1941

Penny Serenade

as Art Direction

1941

The Face Behind the Mask

as Art Direction

1941

The Officer and the Lady

as Art Direction

1939

Blind Alley

as Art Direction

1938

Adventure in Sahara

as Art Direction

1942

Alias Boston Blackie

as Art Direction

1947

Magic Town

as Production Design

1940

Music in My Heart

as Art Direction

1942

Not a Ladies' Man

as Art Direction

1941

You'll Never Get Rich

as Art Direction

1943

City Without Men

as Art Direction

1940

His Girl Friday

as Art Direction

1942

Counter-Espionage

as Art Direction

1940

Before I Hang

as Art Direction

1944

Cry of the Werewolf

as Art Direction

1942

1941

Time Out for Rhythm

as Art Direction

1937

The Awful Truth

as Art Direction

1939

Only Angels Have Wings

as Art Direction

1943

Power of the Press

as Art Direction

1944

Sailor's Holiday

as Art Direction

1940

The Lone Wolf Strikes

as Art Direction

1944

Nine Girls

as Art Direction

1940

Cafe Hostess

as Art Direction

1943

The Chance of a Lifetime

as Art Direction

1943

Klondike Kate

as Art Direction

1944

She's a Soldier Too

as Art Direction

1943

Sahara

as Art Direction

1939

Golden Boy

as Art Direction

1942

Overland to Deadwood

as Art Direction

1944

1945

Tonight and Every Night

as Art Direction

1945

A Song to Remember

as Art Direction

1943

What a Woman

as Art Direction

1941

1943

First Comes Courage

as Art Direction

1939

Behind Prison Gates

as Art Direction

1947

Ramrod

as Production Design

1947

The Perfect Marriage

as Art Direction

1944

Cover Girl

as Art Direction

1939

The Amazing Mr. Williams

as Art Direction

1942

Submarine Raider

as Art Direction

1944

One Mysterious Night

as Art Direction

1942

Atlantic Convoy

as Art Direction

1944

Once Upon a Time

as Art Direction

1941

Secrets of the Lone Wolf

as Art Direction

1941

1940

1940

1942

The Wife Takes a Flyer

as Art Direction

1948

Moonrise

as Art Direction

1942

The Talk of the Town

as Art Direction

1941

Harmon of Michigan

as Art Direction

1942

Parachute Nurse

as Art Direction

1943

Dangerous Blondes

as Art Direction

1940

Glamour for Sale

as Art Direction

1941

She Knew All the Answers

as Art Direction

1940

The Doctor Takes a Wife

as Art Direction

1942

Cadets on Parade

as Art Direction

1941

Ladies in Retirement

as Art Direction

1943

Passport to Suez

as Art Direction

1943

Something to Shout About

as Art Direction

1943

Destroyer

as Art Direction

1940

The Man with Nine Lives

as Art Direction

1942

A Night to Remember

as Art Direction

1939

Let Us Live

as Art Direction

1944

Strange Affair

as Art Direction

1941

The Devil Commands

as Art Direction

1945

Guest Wife

as Art Direction

1943

Murder in Times Square

as Art Direction

1943

Appointment in Berlin

as Art Direction

1939

The Lady and the Mob

as Art Direction

1937

1941

Our Wife

as Art Direction

1940

So You Won't Talk?

as Art Direction

1940

Arizona

as Art Direction

1944

The Impatient Years

as Art Direction

1944

Cyclone Prairie Rangers

as Art Direction

1943

The More the Merrier

as Art Direction

1940

Island of Doomed Men

as Art Direction

1942

The Lone Prairie

as Art Direction

1944

Address Unknown

as Art Direction

1944

The Soul of a Monster

as Art Direction

1941

1938

You Can't Take It with You

as Assistant Art Director

1938

Blondie

as Art Direction

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