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Leslie Banks, English actor, director, and producer (died 1952)
Leslie James Banks CBE was an English stage and screen actor, director and producer, now best remembered for playing gruff, menacing characters in black-and-white films of the 1930s and 1940s, but also the Chorus in Laurence Olivier's wartime version of Henry V.
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Leslie Banks was born in 1890. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.
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| Measure | 1890 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Postage stamp | $0.02 | $0.73 |
| Population | 63.0M | 341 million |
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