About

Known credits:
121
Birthday:
1901-06-22
Place of birth:
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Website:
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Lionel Banks

Overview

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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 times, for Holiday (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Arizona (1940), Ladies in Retirement (1941), The Talk of the Town (1942), Address Unknown and Cover Girl (both 1944), but never won.

Known for

Art
1949 Siren of Atlantis Art Set Designer 58
Average
1948 Moonrise Art Art Direction 59
Average
1947 Magic Town Art Production Design 59
Average
1947 Ramrod Art Production Design 59
Average
1947 The Perfect Marriage Art Art Direction 58
Average
1946 Heartbeat Art Production Design 58
Average
1945 Guest Wife Art Art Direction 59
Average
1945 A Song to Remember Art Art Direction 59
Average
1945 Tonight and Every Night Art Art Direction 58
Average
1944 Cyclone Prairie Rangers Art Art Direction N/A
N/A
1944 One Mysterious Night Art Art Direction 59
Average
1944 Strange Affair Art Art Direction 59
Average
1944 The Impatient Years Art Art Direction 58
Average
1944 The Soul of a Monster Art Art Direction 58
Average
1944 Cry of the Werewolf Art Art Direction 58
Average
1944 Secret Command Art Art Direction 58
Average
1944 Swing in the Saddle Art Art Direction N/A
N/A
1944 Once Upon a Time Art Art Direction 58
Average
1944 She's a Soldier Too Art Art Direction 58
Average
1944 Address Unknown Art Art Direction 59
Average
1944 The Black Parachute Art Art Direction 59
Average
1944 Cover Girl Art Art Direction 59
Average
1944 Two-Man Submarine Art Art Direction 59
Average
1944 Sailor's Holiday Art Art Direction N/A
N/A
1944 Nine Girls Art Art Direction 58
Average
1944 The Ghost That Walks Alone Art Art Direction 58
Average
1943 What a Woman Art Art Direction 58
Average
1943 Klondike Kate Art Art Direction 59
Average
1943 The Chance of a Lifetime Art Art Direction 59
Average
1943 Footlight Glamour Art Art Direction 59
Average
1943 Dangerous Blondes Art Art Direction 59
Average
1943 Sahara Art Art Direction 61
Fair
1943 Destroyer Art Art Direction 59
Average
1943 Passport to Suez Art Art Direction 59
Average
1943 First Comes Courage Art Art Direction 58
Average
1943 Appointment in Berlin Art Art Direction 59
Average
1943 It's a Great Life Art Art Direction 59
Average
1943 The Desperadoes Art Art Direction 58
Average
1943 The More the Merrier Art Art Direction 60
Fair
1943 Murder in Times Square Art Art Direction 58
Average
1943 After Midnight with Boston Blackie Art Art Direction 58
Average
1943 Something to Shout About Art Art Direction 58
Average
1943 Power of the Press Art Art Direction 59
Average
1943 City Without Men Art Art Direction 59
Average
1942 A Night to Remember Art Art Direction 58
Average
1942 You Were Never Lovelier Art Art Direction 59
Average
1942 The Lone Prairie Art Art Direction N/A
N/A
1942 Overland to Deadwood Art Art Direction N/A
N/A
1942 My Sister Eileen Art Art Direction 59
Average
1942 Counter-Espionage Art Art Direction 58
Average
1942 The Talk of the Town Art Art Direction 61
Fair
1942 Parachute Nurse Art Art Direction 58
Average
1942 Blondie for Victory Art Art Direction 59
Average
1942 Atlantic Convoy Art Art Direction 59
Average
1942 Submarine Raider Art Art Direction 58
Average
1942 Meet the Stewarts Art Art Direction 59
Average
1942 Not a Ladies' Man Art Art Direction 59
Average
1942 The Wife Takes a Flyer Art Art Direction 59
Average
1942 Blondie's Blessed Event Art Art Direction 59
Average
1942 Alias Boston Blackie Art Art Direction 58
Average
1942 The Man Who Returned to Life Art Art Direction 58
Average
1942 Cadets on Parade Art Art Direction 59
Average
1942 Blondie Goes to College Art Art Direction 58
Average
1941 Confessions of Boston Blackie Art Art Direction 58
Average
1941 Secrets of the Lone Wolf Art Art Direction 59
Average
1941 You Belong to Me Art Art Direction 58
Average
1941 Roaring Frontiers Art Art Direction N/A
N/A
1941 The Blonde from Singapore Art Art Direction 58
Average
1941 The Officer and the Lady Art Art Direction 59
Average
1941 You'll Never Get Rich Art Art Direction 59
Average
1941 Harmon of Michigan Art Art Direction N/A
N/A
1941 Ladies in Retirement Art Art Direction 59
Average
1941 Mystery Ship Art Art Direction N/A
N/A
1941 Our Wife Art Art Direction 59
Average
1941 The Devil Commands Art Art Direction 58
Average
1941 Here Comes Mr. Jordan Art Art Direction 60
Fair
1941 Blondie in Society Art Art Direction 59
Average
1941 Sweetheart of the Campus Art Art Direction 58
Average
1941 Time Out for Rhythm Art Art Direction 58
Average
1941 She Knew All the Answers Art Art Direction 59
Average
1941 Penny Serenade Art Art Direction 59
Average
1941 The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance Art Art Direction 59
Average
1941 Blondie Goes Latin Art Art Direction 59
Average
1941 The Face Behind the Mask Art Art Direction 59
Average
1940 Arizona Art Art Direction 59
Average
1940 The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date Art Art Direction 58
Average
1940 Blondie Plays Cupid Art Art Direction 59
Average
1940 So You Won't Talk? Art Art Direction 58
Average
1940 Glamour for Sale Art Art Direction 58
Average
1940 Before I Hang Art Art Direction 59
Average
1940 The Lady in Question Art Art Direction 59
Average
1940 Blondie Has Servant Trouble Art Art Direction 59
Average
1940 The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady Art Art Direction 59
Average
1940 Island of Doomed Men Art Art Direction 58
Average
1940 The Doctor Takes a Wife Art Art Direction 59
Average
1940 The Man with Nine Lives Art Art Direction 58
Average
1940 Blondie on a Budget Art Art Direction 59
Average
1940 The Lone Wolf Strikes Art Art Direction 59
Average
1940 His Girl Friday Art Art Direction 68
Fair
1940 Cafe Hostess Art Art Direction 58
Average
1940 Music in My Heart Art Art Direction 58
Average
1939 The Amazing Mr. Williams Art Art Direction 58
Average
1939 Blondie Brings Up Baby Art Art Direction 59
Average
1939 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Art Art Direction 72
Good
1939 Golden Boy Art Art Direction 59
Average
1939 Five Little Peppers And How They Grew Art Art Direction 59
Average
1939 Behind Prison Gates Art Art Direction N/A
N/A
1939 Blondie Takes a Vacation Art Art Direction 59
Average
1939 Only Angels Have Wings Art Art Direction 63
Fair
1939 Blind Alley Art Art Direction 58
Average
1939 The Lady and the Mob Art Art Direction 59
Average
1939 Let Us Live Art Art Direction 59
Average
1939 Blondie Meets the Boss Art Art Direction 59
Average
1939 The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt Art Art Direction 59
Average
1938 Blondie Art Art Direction 59
Average
1938 Adventure in Sahara Art Art Direction 58
Average
1938 You Can't Take It with You Art Assistant Art Director 66
Fair
1938 Holiday Art Assistant Art Director 63
Fair
1938 Penitentiary Art Art Direction N/A
N/A
1937 Murder in Greenwich Village Art Art Direction 59
Average
1937 The Awful Truth Art Art Direction 63
Fair