Brenda De Banzie


Actor

About

Birth Place
Manchester, England, GB
Died
March 05, 1981

Biography

Brenda de Banzie was an actress who had a successful Hollywood career. She was nominated for a BAFTA Award for "Hobson's Choice" in 1954. She continued to work steadily in film throughout the fifties and the sixties, appearing in "As Long As They're Happy" (1957), "The 39 Steps" (1959) and "Too Many Crooks" (1959) with Terry-Thomas. She also appeared in "Come September" (1961) with R...

Biography

Brenda de Banzie was an actress who had a successful Hollywood career. She was nominated for a BAFTA Award for "Hobson's Choice" in 1954. She continued to work steadily in film throughout the fifties and the sixties, appearing in "As Long As They're Happy" (1957), "The 39 Steps" (1959) and "Too Many Crooks" (1959) with Terry-Thomas. She also appeared in "Come September" (1961) with Rock Hudson and the crime picture "The Mark" (1961) with Maria Schell. Film continued to be her passion as she played roles in "I Thank a Fool" (1962), the Peter Sellers action movie "The Pink Panther" (1964) and the James Garner comedy adaptation "A Man Could Get Killed" (1966). She also appeared in the Hayley Mills dramatic adaptation "Pretty Polly" (1968). de Banzie was most recently credited in "The Entertainer" (1989). de Banzie passed away in March 1981 at the age of 72.

Life Events

1935

Stage acting debut

1942

First film as actress

Videos

Movie Clip

Entertainer, The (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Nuns, Clergymen And Dogs! Sister Jean (Joan Plowright) and stepmother Phoebe (Brenda De Banzie) worrying over paratrooper brother Mick, grandfather Billy (Roger Livesey) harrumphing, when actor father Archie (Laurence Olivier) arrives, early in Tony Richardson's The Entertainer, 1960.
Entertainer, The (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Miss Great Britain Hefty set piece from director Tony Richardson, Archie (Laurence Olivier) the M-C at a seaside beauty contest, his sister Jean (Joan Plowright), father (Roger Livesey) and stepmother (Brenda De Banzie) spectating, in The Entertainer, 1960.
Come September (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Analysis Would Help Him! Rich American Robert (Rock Hudson) hasn’t quite realized that butler Maurice (Walter Slezak) has turned his Italian villa into a hotel in his absence, and he’s still obfuscating when chaperone Brenda de Banzie and psych student Sandy (Sandra Dee) appear, in Come September, 1961.
Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Assassinated, In London! Visiting American doctor Ben (James Stewart) gains the crucial guilty knowledge from what appears to be an expiring Arab (Daniel Gelin), who is really their mysterious French friend, at the bazaar in Marakesh, Doris Day his wife, in Alfred Hitchcock's second version of The Man Who Knew Too Much, 1956.
I Thank A Fool (1962) -- (Movie Clip) He'll Sleep Now In rainy Liverpool, Canadian doctor Christine (Susan Hayward) consults with Nurse Drew (Brenda De Banzie) then delivers a not accidental dosage to her invalid lover, the opening scene from I Thank A Fool, 1962.
Mark, The (1961) -- That's The Blue Boy Still mysterious as Fuller (Stuart Whitman), having taken a room in an un-named English city, chats with landlady Mrs. Cartwright (Brenda De Banzie) and husband (Maurice Denham), some emphasis on a print of a famous painting, early in The Mark, 1961, co-starring Rod Steiger and Maria Schell.
Hobson's Choice (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Dealing Husbands Widower, merchant and father Henry (Charles Laughton) is dominating his daughters (Brenda De Banzie, Daphne Anderson, Prunella Scales) when customer Mrs. Hepworth (Helen Haye) insists on meeting cobbler Willie (John Mills) in David Lean's Hobson's Choice, 1954.
Purple Plain, The -- (Movie Clip) Too Much Light Here Easter dinner in WWII Burma, missionary Miss McNab (Brenda de Banzie) hosting Dr. Harris (Bernard Lee) and his patient, troubled flyer Forrester (Gregory Peck), ever more enthralled by mission worker Anna (Win Min Than), in Robert Parrish's The Purple Plain, 1955.
Hobson's Choice (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Things And People An expository scene featuring drinking pals and daughters Maggie (Brenda De Banzie), Alice (Daphne Anderson), and Vicky (Prunella Scales), in the shoe shop run by the title character (Charles Laughton) in Hobson's Choice, 1954.
Hobson's Choice (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Tough Ancient Leather From darkness to broad comedy, the opening scene of Hobson's Choice, 1954, in which shoemaker Charles Laughton (title character) disrespects impassive daughter Maggie (Brenda De Banzie), directed by David Lean.
Hobson's Choice (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Opening Credits Opening credits from David Lean's definitive 1954 production of the British theater favorite Hobson's Choice by Harold Brighouse, starring Charles Laughton, John Mills and Brenda De Banzie.

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