Personal Info
Birth date
1964-04-16 (61 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
Also known as
-Boyd Banks
Biography
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!
Filmography
The Expanse
8.068
Overview:
A thriller set two hundred years in the future following the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.12 Monkeys
7.394
Overview:
The provocative story of Cole, a time traveler from a decimated future in a high-stakes race against the clock. Utilizing a dangerous and untested method of time travel, he journeys from 2043 to the present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will all but annihilate the human race.Lost Girl
7.734
Overview:
The gorgeous and charismatic Bo is a supernatural being called a succubus who feeds on the energy of humans, sometimes with fatal results. Refusing to embrace her supernatural clan and its rigid hierarchy, Bo is a renegade who takes up the fight for the underdog while searching for the truth about her own mysterious origins.Goosebumps
7.898
Overview:
Anything can turn spooky in this horror anthology series based on the best-selling books by master of kid horror, R.L. Stine. In every episode, see what happens when regular kids find themselves in scary situations, and how they work to confront and overcome their fears.11.22.63
7.768
Overview:
An English teacher travels back in time to prevent the Kennedy assassination, but discovers he is attached to the life he has made in a bygone era.Due South
7.547
Overview:
Constable Benton Fraser, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is attached to the Canadian consulate but works with Chicago Police Department to solve crimes.Killjoys
6.889
Overview:
An action-packed adventure series following a fun-loving, hard living trio of interplanetary bounty hunters (a.k.a. Killjoys) sworn to remain impartial as they chase deadly warrants around the Quad, a system of planets on the brink of revolution.Puppets Who Kill
6.5
Overview:
Puppets Who Kill is a Canadian television comedy programme co-produced by The Comedy Network. It premiered in Canada on the Comedy Network in 2002, and in Australia on The Comedy Channel in 2004. In Puppets Who Kill, Rocko the Dog, Cuddles the Comfort Doll, Buttons the Bear, and Bill the Dummy are four live, anthropomorphic puppets with a history of delinquency and recidivism. Canadian courts sent each of them to a halfway house for puppets, operated by a man named Dan Barlow.Once a Thief
5.6
Overview:
Once a Thief is a 1997 Canadian television show inspired by the 1996 film of the same name.This Is Wonderland
9
Overview:
Alice De Raey is a newly minted attorney who joins the chaotic world of criminal justice in Toronto. She's exposed to the seamier side of life, the backroom deals that make the system work accompanied by the usual eccentric characters.Little Mosque on the Prairie
6.7
Overview:
The series focuses on the Muslim community in the fictional prairie town of Mercy, Saskatchewan (population 14,000).Corner Gas
7.93
Overview:
Following the adventures of a bunch of nobodies who get up to a whole lot of nothing in the fictional prairie town of Dog River, Saskatchewan, Corner Gas focuses on the life (or lack thereof) of Brent LeRoy, proprietor of a gas station that is the only stop for miles around and a hub of action on the Prairies.V Wars
7.286
Overview:
After a mysterious disease begins transforming people into vampires, Dr. Luther Swann is pitted against his best friend, now a powerful vampire leader.Wonderfalls
7.7
Overview:
Jaye Tyler, a recent Brown University graduate with a philosophy degree, holds a dead-end job as a sales clerk at a Niagara Falls gift shop. Jaye is the reluctant participant in conversations with various animal figurines — a wax lion, brass monkey, stuffed bear, and mounted fish, among others — which direct her via oblique instructions to help people in need.A Nero Wolfe Mystery
7.8
Overview:
Genius detective Nero Wolfe and his right-hand man, Archie Goodwin, solve seemingly impossible crimes.Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
Overview:
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.Dawn of the Dead
7.06
Overview:
A group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall after the world is taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies.The Kids in the Hall
7.461
Overview:
The Kids in the Hall is a Canadian sketch comedy group formed in 1984, consisting of comedians Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson.Animorphs
7
Overview:
Five kids are given the power to morph into any creature they wish to help them fight villainous Visser Three and his fellow Yeerks, a breed of parasitic aliens threatening Earth.Get Rich or Die Tryin'
6.808
Overview:
A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.Crash
6.4
Overview:
After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims, and he begins to use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.Twice in a Lifetime
5.5
Overview:
Prematurely deceased people are given the opportunity to correct something that went wrong in their lives and thus change them for the better.Lars and the Real Girl
7.196
Overview:
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 girlfriend he met on the Internet, they are overjoyed. But Lars' new lady is a life-size plastic woman. On the advice of a doctor, his family and the rest of the community go along with his delusion.The Fountain
6.913
Overview:
Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.The Tuxedo
5.724
Overview:
Cabbie-turned-chauffeur Jimmy Tong learns there is really only one rule when you work for playboy millionaire Clark Devlin : Never touch Devlin's prized tuxedo. But when Devlin is temporarily put out of commission in an explosive accident, Jimmy puts on the tux and soon discovers that this extraordinary suit may be more black belt than black tie. Paired with a partner as inexperienced as he is, Jimmy becomes an unwitting secret agent.Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
5.54
Overview:
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 18th birthday, plagued by horrific nightmares and the disappearance of her father, Heather discovers she's not who she thinks she is. The revelation leads her deeper into a demonic world that threatens to trap her forever.Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
6.54
Overview:
Nerdy accountant Harold and his irrepressible friend, Kumar, get stoned watching television and find themselves utterly bewitched by a commercial for White Castle. Convinced there must be one nearby, the two set out on a late-night odyssey that takes them deep into New Jersey. Somehow, the boys manage to run afoul of rednecks, cops and even a car-stealing Neil Patrick Harris before getting anywhere near their beloved sliders.Jason X
4.9
Overview:
In the year 2455, Old Earth is now a contaminated planet abandoned for centuries -- a brown world of violent storms, toxic landmasses and poisonous seas. Yet humans have returned to the deadly place that they once fled, not to live, but to research the ancient, rusting artifacts of the long-gone civilizations. But it's not the harmful environment that could prove fatal to the intrepid, young explorers who have just landed on Old Earth. For them, it's Friday the 13th, and Jason lives!Acting
2022All My Puny Sorrows as Pastor
2019V Wars (1 Episode) as Motel Clerk
201611.22.63 (8 Episodes) as Barfly
2015The Expanse (1 Episode) as Coroner
2015The Hexecutioners as Mr. Giroux
2015Killjoys (1 Episode) as Drunk
201512 Monkeys (1, 1 Episode) as TF Scientist, Joe the Bartender
2014Hellmouth as Mr. Whinny
2014Bang Bang Baby as Gord
2014My Daughter Must Live as Server
2014Algonquin as Geordie
2012Silent Hill: Revelation 3D as Priest
2012Dead Before Dawn as Gas Station Attendant
2011Moon Point as Ice Cream Truck Driver
2011The Walking Dead Girls as Self
2011Stripperland as Maestro
2010Coopers' Camera as Sgt. Stevenson
2010Lost Girl (1 Episode) as Groundskeeper
2010Medium Raw as Patient 66
2010Happiness is Hate Therapy as Frank
2010Fairfield Road as Doug
2009Pontypool as Jay (Osama)
2009Before You Say 'I Do' as Apartment Guy
2009You Might As Well Live as Uncle Casper
2008Hooked on Speedman as Man in Wheelchair
2008Saving God as Poole
2008The Love Guru as EMT
2008How She Move as Mike Evens
2008Hank and Mike as Leon the Neighbor
2007Left for Dead as Michael Lymburner
2007Lars and the Real Girl as Russell
2007Chasing Tchaikovsky as Nikolai
2007Diary of the Dead as White Man
2007Little Mosque on the Prairie (22 Episodes) as Unknown
2006The Fountain as Dominican Monk
2006Jekyll + Hyde as Morgue Attendant
2005Get Rich or Die Tryin' as Prison Solitary Guard
2005Saint Ralph as Worker #1
2005Land of the Dead as Butcher
2005Cinderella Man as Reporter
2005Riding the Bus with My Sister as Henry
2005Deacons for Defense as Weber
2004Phil the Alien as Slim
2004Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle as E.R. Patient
2004New York Minute as Ticket Window Guy
2004Rhinoceros Eyes as Hospital Orderly
2004Dawn of the Dead as Tucker
2004Ham & Cheese as Barry's Boss
2004Wonderfalls (1 Episode) as Janitor
2004Corner Gas (1 Episode) as Cecil
2004This Is Wonderland (5 Episodes) as Woody Gallagher
2003Slings & Arrows (1 Episode) as Unknown
2003The Piano Man's Daughter as Priest
2003The In-Laws as Patient
2003Fallen Angel as Birdie
2003The Music Man as Train Conductor
2002Escape from the Newsroom as Martin
2002Puppets Who Kill (2 Episodes) as Unknown
2002Cypher as Fred Garfield
2002The Tuxedo as Vic
2002Avenging Angelo as Paramedic
2002American Psycho II: All American Girl as Jim
2002A Killing Spring as Hotel Manager
2001Knockaround Guys as Bar Patron
2001Prancer Returns as Unknown
2001Jason X as Fat Lou
2001Kiss My Act as Unknown
2001A Nero Wolfe Mystery (1 Episode) as Austin 'Dinky' Byne
2001Club Land as Elegante Announcer
2001Chasing Cain as Ralph
2001Wild Iris as Handprint Clerk
2000Possessed as Zealot
2000The Ladies Man as C&W Station Manager
2000Cheaters as State Speech Judge
2000Bruiser as Jester
2000The Highwayman as Luger
1999Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (2 Episodes) as Statue Man
1999Superstar as Weatherman
1999Twice in a Lifetime (1 Episode) as Murphy
1999Dash and Lilly as Prison Guard
1999The Jesse Ventura Story as Brooklyn Park Mayor
1999Meet Prince Charming as Roger
1998Naked City: A Killer Christmas as Jack
1998Earthquake in New York as Statue Man
1998Animorphs (1 Episode) as Museum Guard (uncredited)
1998Dog Park as Ge Groovy Lesh
1998Dirty Work as Creepy Harry
1997I'll Be Home For Christmas as Ethan
1997Bad to the Bone as Gun Salesman
1997Dinner at Fred's as Talent Show MC
1997The Wrong Guy as Gas Station Guy
1996Holiday Affair as Unknown
1996Once a Thief (1 Episode) as Unknown
1996Crash as Grip
1996Black Sheep as Clyde Spinoza
1995Goosebumps (1 Episode) as Mr. Johnson
1994Due South (1 Episode) as Norm Betz
1989The Kids in the Hall (1 Episode) as Fiancee
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame (1 Episode) as Henry