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Jonathan Banks

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Biography

Jonathan Banks (born January 31, 1947) is an American character actor in film and television.

Banks dropped out of Indiana University to join a touring company as a stage manager. He went to Australia with the company and stayed on working in theatre there. In 1974, he moved to Los Angeles and performed on stage before picking up bit parts on television. Probably his best-known movie roles are in two films starring Eddie Murphy: 48 Hrs. and Beverly Hills Cop. In 48 Hrs. he plays a character who is a friend of the lead and is killed by the villain, beginning the lead characters' story. In Beverly Hills Cop, he plays a villain who kills the lead characters' friend and begins his story. Other movie roles include appearances in Armed and Dangerous, Freejack, Flipper, Airplane!, Gremlins, Murder Me, Murder You, and Under Siege 2: Dark Territory.

His biggest break on television, came with the series Wiseguy, in which he played Frank McPike for four years, a role which led to an Emmy award nomination. Although his character was primarily the hero's mentor, stories occasionally featured McPike as hero. In 1981 he appeared as Dutch Schultz on the NBC series the Gangster Chronicles. He also starred on the short-lived science fiction TV series Otherworld, as Kommander Neveen Kroll and in the sitcom Fired Up.

Banks has also made guest appearances on TV shows including Alias, CSI, Day Break, Highlander: The Series, Matlock, SeaQuest DSV, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Women of the House and Walker Texas Ranger. Most recently, Banks appeared in the final Season Two episodes of Dexter, and in episodes of ER, Cold Case, and Shark, Modern Family. In the second season finale of Breaking Bad, Banks appeared as a mysterious character named Mike. Banks was made a series regular for the third season.

Films Featuring Jonathan Banks

Beverly Hills Cop

19847.2

48 Hrs.

19826.7

Airplane!

19807.3

Reign Over Me

20077.2

Frances

19826.9

Armed and Dangerous

19865.7

Walker Texas Ranger 3: Deadly Reunion

19947.3

Boiling Point

19934.9

Puff, Puff, Pass

20065.7

Cold Steel

19875.0

Freejack

19925.5

Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles

20015.2

Foolish

19996.0

Flipper

19965.5

Don't Touch My Daughter

19914.7

Nadia

19846.7

Blind Side

19935.4

Proximity

20014.3

Coming Home

19787.0

Dollar for the Dead

19986.0

The Road to El Camino: Behind the Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

20196.9

Last Man Standing

19955.2

Let the Devil Wear Black

19994.2

Dark Breed

19974.6

Downpayment on Murder

19876.3

Identity Thief

20135.8

A Thousand Men and a Baby

19976.0

Murder Me, Murder You

19837.3

The Fifth Missile

19865.5

Harvey

19965.2

Bullet

20144.3

The Girl in the Empty Grave

19777.1

Wiseguy

19965.9

Authors Anonymous

20144.6

Term Life

20166.0

Body Shot

19943.3

Stir Crazy

19806.5

Desperate Voyage

19807.3

Marilyn & Bobby: Her Final Affair

19937.5

For Better or for Worse

19895.2

Trash

19994.9

There Goes the Neighborhood

19925.5

Horrible Bosses 2

20146.2

Pin : A Plastic Nightmare

19886.8

The Ordeal of Patty Hearst

19796.5

Shadow of Obsession

199410.0

Ike

19796.8

Watercolor Postcards

20135.8

The Robot Chicken DC Comics Special III: Magical Friendship

20157.4

Dark Blue

20026.2

Proud American

20086.0

R.S.V.P.

20024.2

Who'll Stop the Rain

19786.5

The Commuter

20186.4

Mudbound

20177.4

Linda's Film on Menstruation

19745.4

Wiseguy: Pilot

19879.0

Gangster Wars

19818.3

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love

19877.5

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

19846.0

She's Dressed to Kill

19795.7

Who Is Julia?

19867.4

Gremlins

19847.1

Murder 101: College Can be Murder

20077.1

Redbad

20186.5

Incredibles 2

20187.5

The Invisible Woman

19837.5

Under Siege 2: Dark Territory

19955.9

Rage!

19808.0

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

20197.0

Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn

19775.5

The Night They Took Miss Beautiful

19775.6

Assassin

19865.1

The Cheap Detective

19786.4

I'm Brave!

2015

Outlaw Justice

19996.4

Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal

19937.2

Millennium Man

19998.0

Downward Angel

20014.3

The Wolf: True Alpha

20186.7

Catwoman: Hunted

20225.8

The Rose

19796.7

The Macahans

19766.7

Circadian Rhythm

20054.0

Advanced Television Production - 5 Days, 2 Scripts, No Sleep

Advanced Television Production - 5 Days, 2 Scripts, No Sleep

2014

Saul Goodman America’s 250th

20266.5

Words from the Oven

Words from the Oven