Lionel Banes Explained

Lionel Banes (1904–1996) was a British cinematographer and special effects photographer. During and after the Second World War he was employed by Ealing Studios and shot the 1949 Ealing Comedy Passport to Pimlico.^[1] Later in his career he worked on a variety of television productions including many episodes of the 1960s series The Saint.

Selected filmography

Film

• Bedelia (1946)
• The Captive Heart (1946)
• Frieda (1947)
• Nicholas Nickleby (1947)
• The Loves of Joanna Godden (1947)
• Against the Wind (1948)
• Passport to Pimlico (1949)
• Train of Events (1949)
• The Blue Lamp (1950)
• The Magnet (1950)
• Valley of Song (1953)
• The Good Beginning (1953)
• Dangerous Cargo (1954)
• The Night My Number Came Up (1955)
• No Road Back (1957)
• That Woman Opposite (1957)
• The Surgeon's Knife (1957)
• I Only Arsked! (1958)
• The Haunted Strangler (1958)
• Fiend Without a Face (1958)
• The Lamp in Assassin Mews (1962)
• She Always Gets Their Man (1962)
• The Durant Affair (1962)
• The Battleaxe (1962)

Television

• Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–56)
• The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1955–56)
• The Count of Monte Cristo (1956)
• The Saint (1962–65)
• The Baron (1966)
• The Avengers (1966)
• Man in a Suitcase (1967–68)

Bibliography

• Barr, Charles. Ealing Studios. University of California Press, 1998.

Notes and References

1. Barr p.199-200