Draft:Steve Banning

Steve Banning is a character from the Mummy franchise who starred in the movies The Mummy's Hand, The Mummy's Tomb & The Mummy portrayed by Dick Foran in the former 2 and by Felix Aylmer in the latter 1.

Early life
Nothing is known about Banning's early life in the Universal and Hammer Mummy films. In the Universal films, Steve had an older sister named Jane and probably became an archaeologist in his early 20s and went on many famous expeditions as mentioned by Professor Andoheb in The Mummy's Hand, during those expeditions, he met and befriended fellow archaeologist Babe Jenson. After a while, he was suspended by the Scripps Museum and sent to Cairo, Egypt to search for Princess Ananka's tomb along with Babe. In the Hammer Mummy movies, Steve grew up having a cousin brother named Joseph Whemple, married an unnamed woman and had a son, John Banning, with her. After she died, Steve, Joseph & John went on an expedition to Cairo, Egypt in the year 1895 to find Princess Ananka's tomb where John sustained a leg injury.