Boyd Banks
Born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Boyd Banks started his entertainment career at 17, when he won a contest for Best Stand Up Comedian in Edmonton, Alberta. After spending several years doing comedy in Vancouver, British Columbia, Banks moved to Toronto, where he began acting. Boyd's first roles were in various comedy series such as the cult favourite The Kids in the Hall (1988). His unique character looks and subtle performances on camera caught the eye of Toronto's top casting directors and Banks now works regularly in film and television from comedies to murder mysteries!
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.299 |
| Birthday | 1964-04-16 |
| Place of Birth | Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada |
| Also Known As |
2004
Dawn of the Dead
7.057/3873
A group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall after the world is taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies.
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Dawn of the Dead
2006
The Fountain
6.94/2693
Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence...
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The Fountain
2002
Cypher
6.64/543
An unsuspecting, disenchanted man finds himself working as a spy in the dangerous, high-stakes world of corporate espionage. Quickly getting way over-...
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Cypher
2006
Jekyll + Hyde
4.7/18
Henry Jekyll is a young science student who, along with his friend Mary, experiments with various drugs and compounds in order to create a personality...
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Jekyll + Hyde
2002
American Psycho II: All American Girl
4.482/396
Rachel is a criminology student hoping to land a position as a teacher's assistant for professor Robert Starkman. She's sure this position will pave t...
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American Psycho II: All American Girl
2003
The In-Laws
5.609/266
Right before his daughter's wedding, a mild-mannered foot doctor discovers that his new in-laws are international smugglers.
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The In-Laws
2005
Land of the Dead
6.19/1507
The world is full of zombies and the survivors have barricaded themselves inside a walled city to keep out the living dead. As the wealthy hide out in...
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Land of the Dead
1996
Black Sheep
5.989/380
When dignified Albert Donnelly runs for Governor, his team moves to keep his slow-witted and klutzy younger brother, Mike, out of the eye of the media...
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Black Sheep
2008
How She Move
4.606/33
After the death of Raya Green's sister, she gets out from her classes at school, and sees a stomp crew practicing. She meets Bishop which is the dance...
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How She Move
2011
Stripperland
3.9/28
Fleeing the wrath of man-eating vixens who've taken over the world, a ragtag caravan of refugees makes its way across the country to the relative safe...
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Stripperland
2007
Left for Dead
5/14
Five frat boys are stalked by a machete wielding maniac, after they are involved in a horrifying Devil's Night accident.
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Left for Dead
2011
The Walking Dead Girls
4.7/3
The Walking Dead Girls is a behind-the-scenes look into zombie culture in the United States and the obsession into ""Sexy Female Zombies"". What is it...
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1997
Dinner at Fred's
6/5
A young businessman with a skill for magic tricks breaks down en route to his fiancee's parents' house on Christmas and ends up spending the holiday w...
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Dinner at Fred's
2014
Algonquin
7/2
A father-son camping expedition runs aground on misfortune and family secrets.
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Algonquin
2010
Fairfield Road
6.4/38
Noah McManus is leaving his job with the Boston mayor's office for a dream gig in Washington, D.C. But in a single day, he finds out his new boss in W...
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Fairfield Road
2014
Hellmouth
6.3/12
A gravekeeper is drawn into a hell dimension to save the soul of a beautiful woman.
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Hellmouth
1999
Superstar
5.299/276
Orphan Mary Katherine Gallagher, an ugly duckling at St. Monica High School, has a dream: to be kissed soulfully. She decides she can realize this dre...
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1996
Crash
6.417/1060
After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims, and he begins...
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Crash
2009
Pontypool
6.46/594
When disc jockey Grant Mazzy reports to his basement radio station in the Canadian town of Pontypool, he thinks it's just another day at work. But whe...
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Pontypool
2014
Bang Bang Baby
6.1/27
A small town teenager in the 1960s believes her dreams of becoming a famous singer will come true when her rock star idol gets stranded in town. But a...
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Bang Bang Baby
2001
Knockaround Guys
5.963/335
Four sons of well-known New York mobsters must retrieve a bag of cash from a small Montana town ruled by a corrupt sheriff.
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Knockaround Guys
2004
Rhinoceros Eyes
6.2/15
Rhinoceros Eyes is a fantastical coming-of-age story revolving around Chep, a young, reclusive prop-house employee who falls in love with a detail-obs...
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Rhinoceros Eyes
2012
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
5.508/1579
Heather Mason and her father have been on the run, always one step ahead of dangerous forces that she doesn't fully understand, Now on the eve of her...
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Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
2014
My Daughter Must Live
4.5/10
When her daughter Katie gets sick with a liver disease, Meghan O'Mailley figures out that her husband, Hugh, is not her father. She finds that her ma...
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My Daughter Must Live
2009
Before You Say 'I Do'
5.8/46
George Murray's fiancée Jane Gardner gets cold feet after accepting his ring, terrorized by her first wedding with Doug, who cheated that very day wit...
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Before You Say 'I Do'
2003
Fallen Angel
6.25/22
When his father dies, Terry (Gary Sinese) returns to the house where he grew up, planning to stay only long enough to clean and settle the estate. Yet...
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Fallen Angel
2008
Hank and Mike
5.5/26
Two blue-collar Easter Bunnies get fired and try their hand at an assortment of odd jobs, failing at each. Fighting depression, debt and eventually ea...
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Hank and Mike
2002
Escape from the Newsroom
5/3
It's a strange movie that you have to watch beginning to end, or you'll find yourself completely lost. Based on the Toronto-made TV series "Newsroom,"...
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Escape from the Newsroom
2001
Kiss My Act
5.5/2
A modern retelling of the Cyrano de Bergerac story among stand-up comics, with a bartender helping her much better-looking friend seem smart.
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Kiss My Act
2010
Medium Raw
4.4/14
Capturing the sadistic serial killer "The Wolf" was just the beginning for rookie cop Johnny Morgan. As he escorts the monster to his new home in the...
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Medium Raw
1996
Holiday Affair
5.6/4
"Meeting cute" while Jodie's son Timmy enthuses over a model train set, Jodie and the raffish but likeable Steve immediately hit it off, but she is al...
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Holiday Affair
2005
Riding the Bus with My Sister
3.5/12
A woman spends time with her developmental disabled sister after the death of their father.
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Riding the Bus with My Sister
2009
You Might As Well Live
5/10
On the advice of his childhood hero, Robert R. Mutt embarks on a madcap adventure to attain the three keys to being a "somebody" - a girl, some money...
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You Might As Well Live
2005
Get Rich or Die Tryin'
6.769/868
A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.
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Get Rich or Die Tryin'
2001
Prancer Returns
5.5/33
This holiday-themed children's film offers a unique take on the legend of Santa Claus and his tiny reindeer. In this movie, a young boy finds a deer i...
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Prancer Returns
2000
Cheaters
6.2/47
In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic compet...
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Cheaters
2003
The Piano Man's Daughter
0/0
Terrified of passing on the madness that runs in his family, Charlie Kilworth (Christian Campbell) stays away from relationships that could lead to ma...
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The Piano Man's Daughter
2003
The Music Man
5.4/26
Con man "Professor" Harold Hill arrives in River City, Iowa, promising that he can teach the small town's children how to play in a magnificent marchi...
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The Music Man
1998
Naked City: A Killer Christmas
3/2
An ambitious reporter gets in the way of two cops assigned to investigate a serial killer who becomes active around Christmas time..
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Naked City: A Killer Christmas
2010
Coopers' Camera
5.5/11
Using a professional grade video camera, a dysfunctional family records their Christmas Day in 1985, which descends into total chaos.
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Coopers' Camera
2002
A Killing Spring
6/2
Widowed Joanne Kilbourn is an ex-police officer, whose deceased husband Ian was the Ontario provincial Attorney General when he was murdered. His murd...
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A Killing Spring
2001
Chasing Cain
0/0
A brutal drive-by shooting of a Croatian woman who works at an abortion clinic sends two homicide detectives out onto the streets of one of the world'...
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Chasing Cain
2007
Lars and the Real Girl
7.179/1758
Extremely shy Lars finds it impossible to make friends or socialize. His brother and sister-in-law worry about him, so when he announces that he has a...
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Lars and the Real Girl
2002
Avenging Angelo
5.438/220
A woman who has recently discovered that she is the daughter of Angelo, a major mafia boss, decides to wreak vengeance when he is killed by a hitman....
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Avenging Angelo
2000
Possessed
5.487/39
An 11 year old boy starts throwing temper tantrums, vomiting on and attacking people, and swearing uncontrollably. Furniture begins to move on its ow...
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Possessed
1997
The Wrong Guy
6.8/52
Nelson Hibbert expects to become the new president of Nagel Industries, but Mr. Nagel gives the promotion to another employee. When Nelson barges into...
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The Wrong Guy
2000
The Ladies Man
5.3/130
Because of his salacious language, late-night radio advice-show host Leon Phelps, along with his sweet and loyal producer Julie, is fired from his Chi...
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The Ladies Man
2004
Phil the Alien
4.3/11
Phil the Alien crashes to Earth and find himself alone in the wilds of northern Canada. In the process of going home he goes from drunk to christian r...
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Phil the Alien
2004
New York Minute
6.195/859
Top student Jane Ryan heads to Manhattan for a college-scholarship competition. Her rebellious twin Roxy Ryan goes along to crash a video shoot. But a...
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New York Minute
1998
Dog Park
5.5/19
Sex comedy takes a look at contemporary dating mores and hypothesizes that the new dating location may be the dog walk in the park. Follow one mild-ma...
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Dog Park
2007
Diary of the Dead
5.558/755
A terrified group of college film students record the pandemic rise of flesh-eating zombies while struggling for their own survival.
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Diary of the Dead
2000
Bruiser
5.5/122
Bruiser is the story of a man who has always tried to fit in. He keeps his mouth shut, follows the rules, and does what he's supposed to do. But one m...
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Bruiser
2012
Dead Before Dawn
5.3/108
A bunch of college kids accidentally unleash an evil curse that causes people to kill themselves and turn into Zombie Demons, aka ZEMONS!
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Dead Before Dawn
2008
The Love Guru
4.115/689
Born in America and raised in an Indian ashram, Pitka returns to his native land to seek his fortune as a spiritualist and self-help expert. His skill...
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The Love Guru
2005
Saint Ralph
6.8/59
This Canadian made comedy/drama, set in Hamilton, Ontario in 1954, is a sweet and - at times - goofy story that becomes increasingly poignant as the m...
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Saint Ralph
2001
Club Land
0/0
A father and son work together as agents.
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Club Land
2010
Happiness is Hate Therapy
0/0
Joe attends hate therapy twice a week. Not as a psychiatrist, or a group leader, but more as an observer. The group is small, but they have a lot to s...
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Happiness is Hate Therapy
2003
Deacons for Defense
6.1/8
Inspired by a true story, this drama is set in 1965, not long after passage of the Civil Rights Act. Despite the Act, the African-American citizens of...
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Deacons for Defense
1999
Meet Prince Charming
4.571/7
Jonathan 'Jack' Harris is a waiter, who hopes to start a newspaper called The Tribeca Times, after the part of Manhattan where he lives, and while str...
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Meet Prince Charming
1999
The Jesse Ventura Story
0/0
Biography of ex-pro wrestler Jesse Ventura follows his life beginning as a youngster to election as the Governor of Minnesota in 1998.
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The Jesse Ventura Story
2015
The Hexecutioners
4.58/25
Two disparate young women working for a company that conducts euthanasia are dispatched to a remote estate to perform a custom assisted-suicide ritual...
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The Hexecutioners
2011
Moon Point
9/2
The funny, quirky story of Darryl Strozka, an ambitionless 24-year old who travels hundreds of miles in a wagon hooked onto the back of his friend's e...
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Moon Point
2002
The Tuxedo
5.71/1885
Cabbie-turned-chauffeur Jimmy Tong learns there is really only one rule when you work for playboy millionaire Clark Devlin : Never touch Devlin's priz...
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The Tuxedo
2001
Jason X
4.8/1305
In the year 2455, Old Earth is now a contaminated planet abandoned for centuries -- a brown world of violent storms, toxic landmasses and poisonous se...
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Jason X
Chasing Tchaikovsky
0/0
Boris is a driven businessman, who has achieved a great deal of success in the time he has been in America. He is forced to, go back to his Russian ro...
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Chasing Tchaikovsky
2004
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
6.522/1994
Nerdy accountant Harold and his irrepressible friend, Kumar, get stoned watching television and find themselves utterly bewitched by a commercial for...
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Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
2004
Ham & Cheese
2.7/3
Two talentless actors attempt to make it in the cruel world of showbiz. Without an ounce of talent between the two of them and their only strength bei...
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Ham & Cheese
1998
Earthquake in New York
5.5/21
A cop is after a nasty serial killer. Cop's wife and kids are somewhere in the city too. Then a disastrous earthquake hits the city.
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Earthquake in New York
2008
Saving God
5.5/13
Ex Con Armstrong Cane (Ving Rhames) returns to home a changed man looking to take over his father's old church and congregation. The neighborhood thou...
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Saving God
2005
Cinderella Man
7.552/2118
The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, following his retirement in the 1930s, makes a surprise comeback in order to lift his family out of poverty.
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Cinderella Man
2001
Wild Iris
7.4/5
A depressed woman battles with her mother and abuses alcohol following the suicide of her husband.
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Wild Iris
1998
Dirty Work
6.1/248
Unemployed and recently dumped, Mitch and his buddy Sam start a revenge-for-hire business to raise the $50,000 that Sam's father needs to get a heart...
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Dirty Work
1999
Dash and Lilly
8/2
Biographical look at the bombastic love affair that writers Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman shared in 1940 and 50's Hollywood. Refusing to marry,...
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Dash and Lilly
2008
Hooked on Speedman
0/0
Would be filmmakers, Nick and Vince, dream of making it big and getting out of Nowheresville. Their goal is to make the next indie blockbuster of Blai...
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Hooked on Speedman
2000
The Highwayman
4.7/2
Road trips have never been this killer! Jason Priestley stars as Breakfast, a psychotic jewelry store thief whose grip on reality is frighteningly pre...
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The Highwayman
1997
I'll Be Home For Christmas
6.6/7
Christmas romance about long-separated high school sweethearts who find each other again after 20 years. She's never married and is a smalltown mayor;...
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I'll Be Home For Christmas
1997
Bad to the Bone
6.1/4
A murderous sociopath (and former battered child) uses her naive younger brother in a scheme to do away with her inconvenient lover.
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Bad to the Bone
2022
All My Puny Sorrows
6/18
The story of two Mennonite sisters who have left their strict religious upbringing behind. While one sibling struggles in love and life, the other is...
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