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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 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 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 hero's 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 short-lived 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.
Jonathan Banks
Professor Buzz Hickey
for Professor Buzz Hickey in Community: The Movie (2023)
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The study group gets back together to find the Dean of Greendale Community College who has been kidnapped. The movie will open with Garrett Lambert going through the empty hallways of Greendale Community College stopping at the Dean's office where he finds a ransom note from the kidnapper. The note is addressed to Jeff Winger, the kidnapper is demanding $100,000 in cash or he will never see Dean Pelton again. Jeff calls up his old study group to help him find the kidnapper and save the Dean. The study group decides the suspects are Ben Chang for obvious reasons, Dean Spreck cause of his feud with Dean Pelton and Todd only because they need a 3rd suspect. The group turns the study room into an interrogation room and start interrogating the 3 suspects. After a couple weeks of the investigation the group is ready to give up until Annie walks into an empty classroom and finds Luis Guzman torturing Dean Pelton. As Guzman is getting arrested he confesses he did it because the Dean has not been paying him for using his likeness to bring more students to Greendale for years. There will be an end Credit Scene with Ben Chang laughing uncontrollably like he had something to do with it.
