Jonathan Banks ( born Jonathan Ray Banks ; born January 31, 1947 , Washington , USA ) is an American film and television actor.
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| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Washington , USA |
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| Profession | actor |
| Career | 1976 - present |
| Awards | Saturn (2013, Breaking Bad), Television Critics Choice (2015, Better Call Saul) |
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 In the cinema
- 1.2 On television
- 1.3 In television series
- 2 Personal life
- 3 Filmography
- 4 notes
- 5 Links
Biography
Born in the family of a CIA employee. He studied at Indiana University in Bloomington , where his classmate was Kevin Kline . At that time they were engaged in staging the play The Three-Penny Opera [1] .
Banks dropped out of Indiana University to tour with a director's group. With a production group, he came to Australia and stayed to work in the theater. In 1974, he moved to Los Angeles , where he made a living by looking for and playing episodic roles on television.
In the movie
Perhaps most of all he is known for playing roles in two films with Eddie Murphy in the lead roles: “ Forty-Eight Hours ” and “ Beverly Hills Police Officer ”. In the first of them, Banks played a character who is a friend of the protagonist and killed by the villain, with which he begins the story of the protagonist. In The Beverly Hills Police Officer, Banks plays the villain, killing a protagonist's friend and starting a story. His other roles were shooting in the films “ Armed and Dangerous ”, “Immortality Corporation” , “ ”, “ Airplane! ”,“ Gremlins ”,“ Kill Me, Kill Yourself ”and“ Under Siege 2: Dark Territory ”, the film“ Bullet ”(2014) with Denny Trejo.
On TV
A breakthrough in television shooting for him was his participation in the TV series " Clever Man ", where he played Frank McPike for four years, which led to his nomination for an Emmy Award [2] . Although his character was primarily a mentor to the hero, sometimes some signs characterize McPike as a hero. In 1981, he starred as the Dutchman Schulz in the TV series " " on NBC [3] . Banks also starred in the short-lived science fiction television series The and played Commander Nuvin Kroll in the sitcom .
In television series
Banks also starred in the television series Spy , , New Day , Highlander , Matlock , Underwater Odyssey , Star Trek: Deep Space 9 , , Cool Walker: Texas Justice , Dexter , Ambulance , Detective Rush , Shark , American Family , CSI: Miami Crime Scene , Fool Me and Two and a Half Men ”, In season 5 of the Community , in one episode of the series“ Strictly South ”, in one episode of the series Castle , and in one episode of the series Space .
At the end of the second season of the show “ Breaking Bad ”, Banks starred as former police officer Mike Ermantrauta, and then head of security at the Los Pollos Hermanos eateries chain and main trustee Guus Fring. In the story, his hero does a lot of different work for Fring, from traveling for money to killing the enemies of Hus. Since then, his character began to appear regularly in the third and fourth seasons, and in the fifth season he becomes one of the main characters in the series. Since 2015, he has been playing a major role in the series “ Better Call Saul, ” which is the spin-off of the series “Breaking Bad”.
Personal life
In 1968, a woman named Marnie became his wife, but two years later they broke up. In December 1990, he married Genner Banks and she still accompanies him at all social events [4] .
Filmography
| Year | Russian name | original name | Role | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | f | Homecoming | Coming home | Marine |
| 1978 | f | Cheap detective | The Cheap detective | Cabby |
| 1978 | f | Who will stop the rain | Who'll stop the rain | Marine |
| 1979 | f | the Rose | The rose | television promoter |
| 1980 | f | Airplane! | Airplane! | Gunderson |
| 1980 | f | Violent | Stir crazy | Jack graham |
| 1981 | tf | Gangster wars | Gangster wars | Dutch Schulz |
| 1982 | f | Francis (film) | Frances | hitchhiker |
| 1982 | f | Forty eight hours | 48 Hrs. | Detective Algren |
| 1983 | tf | Kill me kill yourself | Murder Me, Murder You | Janos Saracin |
| 1984 | f | Gremlins | Gremlins | Brent, deputy sheriff |
| 1984 | f | The Adventures of Bakaru Banzai: Through the Eighth Dimension | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | Lizardo |
| 1984 | f | Beverly Hills Police Officer | Beverly hills cop | Zach |
| 1986 | f | Armed and dangerous | Armed and dangerous | Clyde Klepper |
| 1986 | tf | Fifth rocket | The fifth missile | Ray Olson |
| 1987 | f | Cold steel | Cold steel | Isak "Iceman" |
| 1987 - 1990 | from | smart ass | Wiseguy | Frank McPike |
| 1990 | f | Crazy honeymoon | Honeymoon Academy | Pitt |
| 1992 | f | Immortality Corporation | Freejack | Mark Michelett |
| 1992 | f | These are the neighbors | There Goes the Neighborhood | "Handsome" Harry |
| 1993 | f | Boiling Point (film) | Boiling point | Max Waxman |
| 1993 | tf | At a standstill | Blind side | Aaron |
| 1994 | f | Cool Walker 3: Deadly Reconciliation | Walker Texas Ranger 3: Deadly Reunion | Shelby Valentine |
| 1995 | f | Under Siege 2: Dark Territory | Under Siege 2: Dark Territory | Scotty |
| 1996 | f | Flipper | Flipper | Dirk Moran |
| 1996 | f | Dark breed | Dark breed | Joseph Shay |
| 1998 | tf | Dollar for the Dead | Dollar for the dead | Colonel Skinner |
| 1999 | f | Let the devil wear black | Let the Devil Wear Black | Satch |
| 1999 | f | Stupid | Foolish | Numbers |
| 1999 | f | Garbage | Trash | Judge Callum |
| 2001 | f | Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles | Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles | Mylos Drabnik |
| 2001 | f | The limit | Proximity | Price list |
| 2002 | f | Damn season | Dark blue | James |
| 2002 | f | Taste of death invitation | RSVP | Walter Franklin |
| 2006 | at | Brains on one side | Puff, Puff, Pass | Lance |
| 2007 | f | Empty city | Reign over me | Stelter |
| 2008 | f | Proud American | Proud american | Mr. Moretti |
| 2009 - 2012 | from | Breaking bad | Breaking bad | Mike Ermantraut |
| 2011 | from | Two and a half people | Two and a Half Men | pawnshop employee |
| 2012 | f | Watercolor postcards | Watercolor Postcards | Ice ball |
| 2013 | f | Catch the fat lady if you can | Identity thief | Paolo |
| 2013 | core | Roar | Roar | Bernie Warren |
| 2014 | f | Bullet | Bullet | Carlito Kane |
| 2014 | f | Unknown authors | Authors anonymous | David Callaher |
| 2014 | f | Obnoxious Bosses 2 | Horrible boss 2 | detective hatcher |
| 2015 - n. at. | from | Better call Saul | Better call saul | Mike Ermantraut |
| 2015 | from | Space | The expanse | by the canter of Canterbury |
| 2015 | from | Destroyers of legends | Mythbusters | Cameo |
| 2016 | f | Lifetime | Term life | Harper |
| 2016 | core | Alibi | Alibi | Billy |
| 2017 | f | Mudbound Farm | Mudbound | Pappi McAllan |
| 2018 | f | Passenger | The commuter | Walt |
| 2018 | mf | The Incredibles 2 | Incredibles 2 | Rick dicker |
| 2018 | f | Radbod | Redbad | Pepin Geristalsky |
| 2019 | f | Way: Breaking Bad. Film | El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie | Mike Ermantraut |
Notes
- ↑ Jonathan Banks Biography on TV Guide
- ↑ Jonathan Banks as Mike . AMC Date of treatment April 5, 2011. Archived on October 6, 2012.
- ↑ The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946 – Present. - Ballantine Books, 2003 .-- P. 447. - ISBN 0-345-45542-8 .
- ↑ Jonathan Banks: photo, biography, filmography, news - Around TV. (eng.) . Around the TV. Date of appeal September 18, 2019.
Links
- The actor’s card on the website on the Star Trek-based wiki