George Banfield

{{Short description|British film producer and director}}

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| name = George Banfield

| birth_date = 7 December 1888

| birth_place = Hackney, England

| death_date = {{death-date and age|10 June 1963|7 December 1888}}

| death_place = Nice, France

| othername = George J. Banfield

| occupation = Film director, film producer

| yearsactive = 1908–29

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George Banfield (1888–1963)"[https://web.archive.org/web/20180915225952/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f02cf34 George J. Banfield"]", BFI. was a British film producer and director. He first entered the film industry in 1908. During the mid-1920s he began producing series of short films during the Slump of 1924. In 1926 he formed a new company British Filmcraft, and bought Walthamstow Studios.Low p.196-197 The company produced a large number of shorts, and four feature films but did not make the transition from silent to sound films. He is sometimes credited as George J. Banfield.