Jonathan Raymond Banks is an American actor, who is best known for his various film roles, such as Gunderson in Airplane!, Detective Algren in 48 Hrs., Zack in Beverly Hills Cop, and Deputy Brent Frye in Gremlins. He is also well-known for his television roles, including Mike Ehrmantraut in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad and its spin-off Better Call Saul, as well as Frank McPike in the CBS crime drama series Wiseguy and Buzz Hickey in the NBC comedy series Community. Additionally, he voiced Eruptor in the Skylanders spin-off television series Skylanders Academy.
For Disney, he voiced Rick Dicker in Disney/Pixar's 2018 film Incredibles 2 (replacing Bud Luckey), Filbrick Pines in Gravity Falls, Quirin in Tangled: The Series, and Silvio Manfredi/Silvermane in Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.
Banks was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Chillum Heights, Maryland. His father was a civil servant, and his mother was a professor at Indiana State University. Banks said his late mother was a secretary in various federal government offices, including the CIA, and that she was also a private secretary to several top naval officers, including Admiral Chester Nimitz. Banks graduated from Northwood High School in Silver Spring and attended Indiana University Bloomington, where he was a classmate of actor Kevin Kline. During that time, they participated in a production of The Threepenny Opera together. After graduating, he joined a touring company of the Broadway musical Hair as a stage manager and traveled to Australia and New Zealand.
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