Jonathan Banks
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 50.579 |
| Birthday | 1947-01-31 |
| Place of Birth | Washington, D.C., USA |
| Also Known As | Jonathan Ray Banks, 조나단 뱅스, |
1984
Beverly Hills Cop
7.197/4176
Fast-talking, quick-thinking Detroit street cop Axel Foley has bent more than a few rules and regs in his time, but when his best friend is murdered,...
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Beverly Hills Cop
1982
48 Hrs.
6.693/1490
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.
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48 Hrs.
1980
Airplane!
7.3/4511
An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.
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Airplane!
2007
Reign Over Me
7.211/1066
A man who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City runs into his old college roommate. Rekindling the friendship is the one thing t...
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Reign Over Me
1982
Frances
6.9/109
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
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Frances
1986
Armed and Dangerous
5.644/177
After policeman Frank Dooley is framed for theft and loses his job on the force, he joins a security guard agency and teams up with inept former defen...
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Armed and Dangerous
1994
Walker Texas Ranger 3: Deadly Reunion
7.231/13
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Walker Texas Ranger 3: Deadly Reunion
1993
Boiling Point
4.954/120
Red is an aging scam-artist who's just been released from prison together with Ronnie, a young and not-so-bright hoodlum who is easily manipulated. Th...
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Boiling Point
2006
Puff, Puff, Pass
6/35
Danny Masterson (TV's 'That '70s Show') leads a hilarious ensemble cast in a tale about two hapless stoners who get involved in a scheme to rip off a...
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Puff, Puff, Pass
1987
Cold Steel
4.9/18
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1992
Freejack
5.394/315
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Freejack
2001
Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
5.204/609
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1999
Foolish
6/12
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Foolish
1996
Flipper
5.5/312
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Flipper
1991
Don't Touch My Daughter
4.4/5
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Don't Touch My Daughter
1984
Nadia
6.5/8
Story about gymnast Nadia Comaneci from her childhood beginning as a gymnast and how she was discovered by Belya Karolyi. Nadia received 7 perfect 10'...
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Nadia
1993
Blind Side
5.4/35
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Blind Side
2001
Proximity
3.8/6
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Proximity
1978
Coming Home
7.027/188
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Coming Home
1998
Dollar for the Dead
5.2/10
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Dollar for the Dead
2019
The Road to El Camino: Behind the Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
7/18
Aaron Paul, Vince Gilligan and other cast members, producers and crew share stories and footage from the making of "El Camino."
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1995
Last Man Standing
4.727/11
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Last Man Standing
1999
Let the Devil Wear Black
4.3/10
A man comes face-to-face with personal treachery after suspecting that his father may have been murdered.
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Let the Devil Wear Black
1997
Dark Breed
4.6/16
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Dark Breed
1987
Downpayment on Murder
6/3
About an estranged husband who, in an explosive rage, decides to have his wife murdered by a hired killer.
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Downpayment on Murder
2013
Identity Thief
5.854/3322
When a mild-mannered businessman learns his identity has been stolen, he hits the road in an attempt to foil the thief -- a trip that puts him in the...
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Identity Thief
1997
A Thousand Men and a Baby
5/1
An American soldier finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster. The aircraft's crew welcomed him enthusiastically to provide necessary medical care, but th...
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A Thousand Men and a Baby
1983
Murder Me, Murder You
6.6/4
Private eye Mike Hammer probes his long-lost love's death while seeking their daughter.
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Murder Me, Murder You
1986
The Fifth Missile
6/3
The crew of a Polaris submarine, on a training mission simulating an attack on Russia, is stricken by toxic poisoning. One of the poison's effects is...
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The Fifth Missile
1996
Harvey
4/3
An unlikely hero, Elwood P. Dowd. This mild-mannered-but-eccentric bachelor has, for several years, happily kept company with Harvey, a six-foot-tall...
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Harvey
2014
Bullet
4.3/105
Danny Trejo plays 'Bullet' a tough cop who takes the law into his own hands when his grandson is kidnapped.
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1977
The Girl in the Empty Grave
7.5/6
The police chief of a small town begins an investigation after a young woman, who was supposed to have died several months previously, starts appearin...
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1996
Wiseguy
4.2/5
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Wiseguy
2014
Authors Anonymous
4.67/53
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2016
Term Life
5.956/307
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1994
Body Shot
3.6/7
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Body Shot
1980
Stir Crazy
6.463/434
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1980
Desperate Voyage
7.5/1
A modern-day pirate hijacks private yachts, steals the valuables on board, and sends the passengers to the bottom of the ocean. But his current captiv...
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Desperate Voyage
1993
Marilyn & Bobby: Her Final Affair
6/1
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1989
Honeymoon Academy
5.1/14
A honeymooning couple become entangled in a plot to recover plates for counterfeiting US dollars. SHE thinks she's just retired from a government 'dir...
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Honeymoon Academy
1999
Trash
4.8/4
Trash is a coming of age drama set amongst the poverty stricken trailer parks of the deep South. In a spiraling tale of hatred, love and loyalty, two...
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Trash
1992
There Goes the Neighborhood
5.381/21
A dying prisoner whispers the location of his loot to the facility's psychologist, who heads to the New Jersey suburbs to find it. Two prisoners overh...
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There Goes the Neighborhood
2014
Horrible Bosses 2
6.186/4126
Dale, Kurt and Nick decide to start their own business but things don't go as planned because of a slick investor, prompting the trio to pull off a ha...
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Horrible Bosses 2
1988
Pin
6.734/139
Pin, a plastic medical dummy, has been the fixation of Leon since youth. Now grown up and orphaned in an accident, Leon brings Pin home to live with h...
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Pin
1979
The Ordeal of Patty Hearst
6/1
The story of the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst by members of a radical guerrilla organization, as seen by the FBI agent in charge of he...
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The Ordeal of Patty Hearst
1994
Shadow of Obsession
0/0
A female professor is taunted and stalked by an emotionally disturbed student, and then, when he disappears, is accused of killing him, although no bo...
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Shadow of Obsession
1979
Ike
6.2/2
Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal rel...
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Ike
2013
Watercolor Postcards
6.079/19
A Hollywood actress and a former NFL star strive to save a troubled Texas town while bonding over their shared love of a very special 10-year-old girl...
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Watercolor Postcards
2015
Robot Chicken DC Comics Special III: Magical Friendship
7.7/26
The Robot Chicken DC Comics Special 3: Magical Friendship surrenders DC Comics' multitude of Super Heroes and Super-Villains to the demented whims of...
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Robot Chicken DC Comics Special III: Magical Friendship
2002
Dark Blue
6.2/323
Set during the Rodney King riots, a robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his...
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Dark Blue
2008
Proud American
6/2
Proud American presents five powerful singular stories all of which magnify the themes mentioned above. Our film is an emotional, inspirational, and v...
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Proud American
2002
R.S.V.P.
4/12
A psychology student invites a group of his friends and teacher to a drug and alcohol-fueled party where he plans to murder them all.
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R.S.V.P.
1978
Who'll Stop the Rain
6.5/61
John, a disillusioned Vietnam War journalist, turns to heroin smuggling. He cons Ray, an equally burnt out veteran into delivering the drugs stateside...
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Who'll Stop the Rain
2018
The Commuter
6.364/4376
A businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his life but the lives of those...
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The Commuter
2017
Mudbound
7.383/1221
In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight...
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Mudbound
1974
Linda's Film on Menstruation
5.3/3
This is an educational short released by the Los Angeles Public Library explaining what to expect when you get your first period.
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Linda's Film on Menstruation
1987
Wiseguy: Pilot
0/0
This was the feature-length pilot for the hit series. Vinnie Terranova, a Justice Department agent reassigned to the Organized Crime Bureau as a “wise...
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Wiseguy: Pilot
1981
Gangster Wars
7.5/2
The film tells the story of three teenagers, based on real life gangsters Charles "Lucky" Luciano (Michael Nouri), Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (Joe Penny)...
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Gangster Wars
1987
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love
7.25/10
Perry must defend the husband of an old flame from a murder charge.
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love
1984
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
6.022/429
Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
1979
She's Dressed to Kill
5.4/8
A fashion designer gives a private showing at her mansion over a weekend, but someone starts killing off the models.
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She's Dressed to Kill
1986
Who Is Julia?
7.2/4
A strikingly beautiful and wealthy woman is hit by a truck and is all smashed up and nearly killed. At nearly the same time, a very plain looking lowe...
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Who Is Julia?
1984
Gremlins
7.123/6403
When Billy Peltzer is given a strange but adorable pet named Gizmo for Christmas, he inadvertently breaks the three important rules of caring for a Mo...
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Gremlins
2007
Murder 101: College Can be Murder
7.1/7
Criminology Professor Dr. Jonathan Maxwell does not believe that Professor Archer Coe died of a heart attack, so he hires his friend Mike Parker to in...
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Murder 101: College Can be Murder
2018
Redbad
6.318/206
In the year of 754 AD, during a time of epic battles and bloodshed, the legend of the pagan warrior king, Rebad, is born, but so is a new weapon again...
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Redbad
2018
Incredibles 2
7.46/12900
Elastigirl springs into action to save the day, while Mr. Incredible faces his greatest challenge yet – taking care of the problems of his three child...
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Incredibles 2
1983
The Invisible Woman
5/1
In a research lab, a scientist's pet chimpanzee mixes up an invisibility formula. A young woman accidentally drinks the solution and becomes invisible...
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The Invisible Woman
1995
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
5.8/917
A passenger train has been hijacked by an electronics expert and turned into an untraceable command center for a weapons satellite. He has planned to...
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Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
1980
Rage!
7/1
In an attempt to be rehabilitated, a rapist goes to therapy while in prison.
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Rage!
2019
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
6.966/4932
In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse Pinkman must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future.
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
1977
Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn
5.9/8
In this sequel to Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway, Alexander's story is told in both the past and the present. Alexander's parents send him away f...
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Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn
1977
The Night They Took Miss Beautiful
5.6/5
Criminals hijack an airplane carrying five beauty contest finalists, but unknowingly they've also kidnapped a government agent carrying a dangerous vi...
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The Night They Took Miss Beautiful
1986
Assassin
4.1/5
A retired agent from an Intelligence Agency is contacted by the Agency in order to stop an ultra-secret robot who is killing some government officials...
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Assassin
1978
The Cheap Detective
6.226/84
A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of...
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The Cheap Detective
2015
I'm Brave!
0/0
He's a big red engine with a siren, a horn, a tank full of water, and a whole lotta hose! He's a good-lookin' fire truck — and he's brave, too — but w...
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I'm Brave!
1999
Outlaw Justice
7/13
In the tradition of THE WILD BUNCH and THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN comes this fast paced, action filled western with unforgettable performances by an all st...
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Outlaw Justice
1993
Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal
7.278/9
The owner of a cosmetics company is unveiling a new cream which she claims she's been using. She's been keeping her age a secret and now reveals that...
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal
1999
Millennium Man
0/0
A U.S. intelligence agent's death is averted when his brain is transferred into the billion dollar "Advanced Design Anatomical Man," or ADAM, a techni...
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Millennium Man
2001
Downward Angel
0/0
Assassin John Hunter must infiltrate the notorious Guild and find the man responsible for his parents death.
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Downward Angel
2018
The Wolf: True Alpha
7.5/2
HP's latest entrant in "The Wolf" series once again pits Slater's character against The Fixer.
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The Wolf: True Alpha
2022
Catwoman: Hunted
5.703/111
Catwoman's attempt to steal a priceless jewel puts her squarely in the crosshairs of both a powerful consortium of villains and the ever-resourceful I...
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Catwoman: Hunted
1979
The Rose
6.7/121
Rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster's romantic relationships and mental health are continuously imperilled by the demands of life on the road.
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The Rose
1976
The Macahans
6.7/6
Zeb Macahan, a pioneering westerner, helps move his brother's family to the wild west. They run into several obstacles including the breakout of the C...
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