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 bestknown 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 heros 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 shortlived 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
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