Jonathan Banks' Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Breaking Bad mike ehrman… Wiseguy Frank McPike Otherworld Kommander N… Fired Up Guy Mann The Gangster Chronicles Dutch Schultz Best of the West Hombre The Word The young L…

Main Movie Roles 2007 - Reign Over Me 2006 - Puff, Puff, Pass 2003 - Dark Blue 2001 - Proximity 2001 - Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles 1999 - Foolish 1996 - Flipper 1995 - Under Siege 2: Dark Territory 1992 - Freejack 1988 - Pin 1987 - Cold Steel 1986 - Armed and Dangerous 1984 - Gremlins 1984 - Beverly Hills Cop 1984 - The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension 1982 - 48 Hrs. 1982 - Frances 1980 - Stir Crazy 1980 - Airplane! 1979 - The Rose 1978 - Coming Home 1978 - The Cheap Detective 1978 - Who'll Stop the Rain

BIOGRAPHY:

Jonathan Ray Banks (born January 31, 1947) is an American actor in film and television.
Banks was born in Washington, D.C. in 1947. His mother worked for the CIA. Banks attended Indiana University Bloomington where he was a classmate of Kevin Kline. During that time, they participated together in a production of The Threepenny Opera.[1]
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 most recent film to date is the 2007 film Reign Over Me.
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.[2] 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.[3]



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