Monty Banks
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1897-07-14 (53 years old)
Deathday
1950-01-07
Place of Birth
Cesena, Forlì-Cesena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Also known As
Montague 'Monty' Banks
Montague Banks
Mario Bianchi
Frenchie Bianchi
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 '"montebanks". By 1919 Banks had moved to Vitagraph to play a villain in The Grocery Clerk (1919), foil to star comic Larry Semon. Banks first came to t...
Acting
1934
as Film Director
1927
as The Boy
1941
as Antonio Lopez
1931
as Convict
1919
as The Tow Gusher, a 'He Vamp'
1951
as (archive footage)
1920
as Man with Dog (uncredited)
1922
1924
as Monty
1923
as The Boy
1924
as The Groom
1934
as Harry Blump, the Window Washer (uncredited)
1925
as Monty Banks, the Stranger
1940
as Orban
1918
as Soldier
1952
as Himself
1916
as Jack Elliot & Jacques, Patricia's Butler (as Mario Bianchi)
1919
as A Rival
1927
as Monty
1927
as The Boy
1919
as Farmhand
1922
as Adolph Brilliantino
1923
as Monty, the Office Force
1924
1932
as Chef
1939
1920
as Count Up / Mac Aroni
1936
as Montague Banking
1923
1923
1961
as Self (archive footage)
1933
as Taxi Driver (uncredited)
1918
as French Salesman
1926
as Monty Milde
1919
1921
as A Husband
1921
as The Jealous Husband
1933
as Chauffeur
1934
as Caruso
1919
as Sherlock McNutt
1919
as Unnamed
1920
as The Boy
1921
as The boy
1921
as The Dry Cleaner Delivery Wagon Driver
1923
as The Watchful Waiter
-
as The Jailbird
1923
as The Encyclopedia Salesman
1924
as Monty
1924
1929
as Monty
1929
as Max Ammon
1929
as Dandy
1928
as Monty Adams
1928
as Monty Brooks
1935
as Tony
1935
as Doctor
1924
as Monty
1923
as The Taxi Driver
1918
as Harold Hatband (Son) as Frenchie Bianchi
1927
as Monty Milde
1925
as The Boy
1945
as Giuseppe
1919
as Leon Dathis
1919
1918
1921
as Mr. Newlywed
1933
Production
1941
as Director
1935
as Director
1924
as Producer
1935
as Director
1936
as Director
1934
as Director
1930
as Director
1940
as Writer
1933
as Director
1939
as Director
1936
as Director
1927
as Story
1938
as Director
1930
as Director
1924
as Director
1932
as Director
1932
as Adaptation
1923
as Producer
1938
as Director
1933
as Director
1931
as Director
1930
as Director
1933
as Director
1934
as Director
1930
as Director
1930
as Writer
1930
as Director
1930
as Writer
1928
as Director
1929
as Director
1930
as Director
1930
as Director
1930
as Director
1927
as Story
1930
as Director
1930
as Director
1930
as Director
1931
as Director
1931
as Producer
1931
as Director
1932
as Director
1931
as Director
1931
as Producer
1931
as Director
1935
as Director
1934
as Director
1935
as Director
1934
as Director
1934
as Writer
1935
as Director
1932
as Director
1927
as Screenplay
1927
as Story
1927
as Executive Producer
1925
as Writer
1926
as Executive Producer
© All Rights Reserved 2025