Line #29 Creator/JonathanBanks


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3	->''"Boy I could do this forever; I truly enjoy bad guys."''
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5	Jonathan Ray Banks (born January 31, 1947 in Washington, DC) is an American actor. With his hangdog expression and gruff, deep voice, Banks is often cast as authority figures on both sides of the law, sinister figures or otherwise extremely deadpan characters. His first notable film roles were in the films ''Film/{{Airplane}}'', ''Film/FortyEightHrs'', and ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop''. He has received critical acclaim for his roles in the TV shows ''Series/{{Wiseguy}}'', ''Series/BreakingBad'', and ''Series/BetterCallSaul''.
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7	!!Film Roles
8	* 1978 ''Film/ComingHome'' as Marine
9	* 1980 ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' as Gunderson
10	* 1980 ''Film/StirCrazy'' as Jack Graham
11	* 1982 ''Film/FortyEightHrs'' as Algren
12	* 1984 ''Film/{{Gremlins\|1984}}'' as Deputy Brent
13	* 1984 ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossTheEighthDimension'' as Lizardo Hospital Guard
14	* 1984 ''Film/BeverlyHillsCopI'' as Zack
15	* 1986 ''Film/{{Armed and Dangerous\|1986}}'' as Clyde Klepper
16	* 1992 ''Film/{{Freejack}}'' as Mark Michelette
17	* 1995 ''Film/UnderSiege2DarkTerritory'' as Scotty
18	* 1996 ''Film/{{Flipper}}'' as Dirk Moran
19	* 2001 ''[[Film/CrocodileDundee Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles]]'' as Milos Drubnik
20	* 2002 ''Film/DarkBlue'' as James Barcomb
21	* 2007 ''Film/ReignOverMe'' as Stelter
22	* 2013 ''Film/IdentityThief'' as Paolo
23	* 2017 ''Film/{{Mudbound}}'' as Pappy [=McAllan=]
24	* 2018 ''Film/TheCommuter'' as Walt
25	* 2018 ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'' as Rick Dicker (voice)[[note]]He replaced the much older Bud Luckey, who died a few months before it was released.[[/note]]
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27	!!Television Roles
28	* 1985 ''Series/{{Otherworld}}'' as Kommander Nuveen Kroll
29	* 1987–1990 ''Series/{{Wiseguy}}'' as Frank [=McPike=]
30	* 1993 ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E13BattleLines Battle Lines]]" as Golin Shel-la
31	* 1994: ''Series/{{Highlander}}'', as Mako in the season 2 episode "Under Color of Authority"
32	* 1997–1998 ''Series/{{Fired Up\|1997}}'' as Guy Mann
33	* 2000 ''Series/TheTroubleWithNormal'' as Dr. Lowell
34	* 2006–2007 ''Series/{{Day Break\|2006}}'' as Shadow Man / Conrad Detweiler
35	* 2007 ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' as FBI Deputy Director Max Adams
36	* 2009 "Series/ColdCase" as John Clark
37	* [[Characters/BreakingBadMikeEhrmantraut Mike Ehrmantraut]]
38	** 2009–2012 ''Series/BreakingBad''
39	** 2015–2022 ''Series/BetterCallSaul''
40	** 2019 ''Film/ElCamino''
41	* 2014 ''Series/{{Community}}'' as Buzz Hickey
42	* 2015 ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' as Filbrick Pines (voice)
43	* 2016 ''WesternAnimation/SkylandersAcademy'' as Eruptor (voice; darrining Creator/KeytheFarley from [[VideoGame/{{Skylanders}} the games]])
44	* 2017–2020 ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'' as Quirin (voice)
45	* 2020 ''WesternAnimation/FIsForFamily'' as Big Bill Murphy (voice)
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47	!!Video Game Roles
48	* 2015 ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'' as Commissioner James Gordon (voice)
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50	!!Tropes
51	* ChronicallyKilledActor: And he's very aware of it.
52	-->I've died so many times. I'm 65. On my 40th birthday, my girlfriend gave me a reel with ways I had died, whether it was by knife, or electrocution or drowning or being thrown off a building or whatever it might have been. I've died a lot of times!
53	* HeAlsoDid: ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver'' brought attention to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl8JiJx2vaI a 1974 sex ed video]] where he played the boyfriend of a girl who just got her first period (and he showed up at the end of the episode [[CreatorBacklash to refute its implication that getting a period makes you good at bowling]]).

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