Jonathan Banks

Acting · 5.2 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: January 31, 1947
From: Washington, D.C., USA

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.

Works

87 films

Incredibles 2

20187.5

Airplane!

19807.3

Beverly Hills Cop

19847.2

Gremlins

19847.1

The Commuter

20186.4

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

20197.0

Horrible Bosses 2

20146.2

48 Hrs.

19826.7

Identity Thief

20135.9

Under Siege 2: Dark Territory

19955.9

Reign Over Me

20077.2

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

19846.0

Dark Blue

20026.3

Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles

20015.2

Freejack

19925.5

Term Life

20166.0

Stir Crazy

19806.5

Ike

19796.8

Outlaw Justice

19996.6

Catwoman: Hunted

20225.8

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

20196.9

Redbad

20186.5

Armed and Dangerous

19865.7

Coming Home

19787.0

Flipper

19965.6

Mudbound

20177.4

Who'll Stop the Rain

19786.5

The Cheap Detective

19786.4

Pin : A Plastic Nightmare

19886.8

Nadia

19846.7

The Robot Chicken DC Comics Special III: Magical Friendship

20157.4

Last Man Standing

19955.2

Marilyn & Bobby: Her Final Affair

19937.5

Assassin

19865.1

Frances

19826.9

The Rose

19796.7

Boiling Point

19934.9

Cold Steel

19875.0

There Goes the Neighborhood

19925.5

Trash

19994.9

Bullet

20144.3

A Thousand Men and a Baby

19976.0

Watercolor Postcards

20135.8

Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn

19775.5

Words from the Oven

2026

The Ordeal of Patty Hearst

19796.5

Let the Devil Wear Black

19994.2

Puff, Puff, Pass

20065.7

The Night They Took Miss Beautiful

19775.6

Who Is Julia?

19867.4

The Girl in the Empty Grave

19777.1

Murder Me, Murder You

19837.3

Blind Side

19935.5

Dark Breed

19974.6

Wiseguy: Pilot

19879.0

Murder 101: College Can be Murder

20077.1

R.S.V.P.

20024.2

The Wolf: True Alpha

20186.7

Foolish

19996.0

Proximity

20014.3

Body Shot

19943.3

Don't Touch My Daughter

19914.7

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love

19877.5

Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal

19937.2

She's Dressed to Kill

19795.7

Authors Anonymous

20144.7

For Better or for Worse

19895.2

Downpayment on Murder

19876.3

Dollar for the Dead

19985.7

Circadian Rhythm

20054.0

Millennium Man

19998.0

Walker Texas Ranger 3: Deadly Reunion

19947.3

Gangster Wars

19818.3

Wiseguy

19965.9

Downward Angel

20014.3

Rage!

19808.0

The Macahans

19766.7

Desperate Voyage

19807.3

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

2014

The Fifth Missile

19865.5

Harvey

19965.2

I'm Brave!

2015

Saul Goodman America’s 250th

20266.5

Linda's Film on Menstruation

19745.4

The Invisible Woman

19837.5

Shadow of Obsession

199410.0

Proud American

20086.0