
Jonathan Banks
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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.847 |
Birthday | 1947-01-31 |
Place of Birth | Washington, D.C., USA |
Also Known As | Jonathan Ray Banks, 조나단 뱅스, جاناتان بنکس, |

1984

Beverly Hills Cop
7.199/4238
Fast-talking, quick-thinking Detroit street cop Axel Foley has bent more than a few rules and regs in his time, but when his best friend is murdered,...
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Beverly Hills Cop

1982

48 Hrs.
6.69/1510
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.
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1980

Airplane!
7.296/4586
An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.
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2007

Reign Over Me
7.201/1084
A man who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City runs into his old college roommate. Rekindling the friendship is the one thing t...
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Reign Over Me

1982

Frances
6.9/111
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
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1986

Armed and Dangerous
5.6/183
After policeman Frank Dooley is framed for theft and loses his job on the force, he joins a security guard agency and teams up with inept former defen...
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1994

Walker Texas Ranger 3: Deadly Reunion
7.231/13
An experienced member of Texas Rangers, a special police unit, arrives to compete in a pistol shooting tournament, but so does a hitman who's planing...
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1993

Boiling Point
5/121
Red is an aging scam-artist who's just been released from prison together with Ronnie, a young and not-so-bright hoodlum who is easily manipulated. Th...
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2006

Puff, Puff, Pass
6/35
Danny Masterson (TV's 'That '70s Show') leads a hilarious ensemble cast in a tale about two hapless stoners who get involved in a scheme to rip off a...
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1987

Cold Steel
4.9/18
On Christmas Eve, Johnny Modine's father is murdered by a psycho cut-throat. The cop swears bloody revenge, though he's taken off the case. He doesn't...
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1992

Freejack
5.4/317
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2001

Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
5.205/617
After settling in the tiny Australian town of Walkabout Creek with his significant other and his young son, Mick "Crocodile" Dundee is thrown for a lo...
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1999

Foolish
6/12
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1996

Flipper
5.508/319
Sandy Ricks is sent by his mom to Coral Key, a rustic island in the Florida keys, to spend the summer with his uncle Porter Ricks. Sandy dislikes ever...
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1991

Don't Touch My Daughter
4.4/5
A young girl is kidnapped and molested by a classmate's father. The man she identifies is arrested and jailed, but is later released on bail. He calls...
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1984

Nadia
6.5/8
Story about gymnast Nadia Comaneci from her childhood beginning as a gymnast and how she was discovered by Belya Karolyi. Nadia received 7 perfect 10'...
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1993

Blind Side
5.4/35
A couple visits Mexico to scout a new location for their furniture manufacturing business and hit a cop with their car on the way back stateside. Real...
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2001

Proximity
3.8/6
When William Conroy (Rob Lowe), a former college professor, is sentenced to life in prison for vehicular manslaughter it seems his life is over. But w...
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1978

Coming Home
7.029/188
In 1968 California, a Marine officer's wife falls in love with a former high school classmate who suffered a paralyzing combat injury in the war.
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1998

Dollar for the Dead
5.3/11
In this tribute to the old time spaghetti westerns with a liberal dose of modern Hong Kong film-making thrown in, Emilio Estevez assumes Clint Eastwoo...
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2019

The Road to El Camino: Behind the Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
6.9/19
Aaron Paul, Vince Gilligan and other cast members, producers and crew share stories and footage from the making of "El Camino."
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1995

Last Man Standing
4.7/12
A gang of bank robbers, led by the ultra-violent Snake Underwood, pull off a daring mid-day heist that leaves dozens of burning police cars and scores...
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Last Man Standing

1999

Let the Devil Wear Black
4.3/10
A man comes face-to-face with personal treachery after suspecting that his father may have been murdered.
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1997

Dark Breed
4.6/16
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Dark Breed

1987

Downpayment on Murder
6/3
About an estranged husband who, in an explosive rage, decides to have his wife murdered by a hired killer.
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Downpayment on Murder

2013

Identity Thief
5.851/3346
When a mild-mannered businessman learns his identity has been stolen, he hits the road in an attempt to foil the thief -- a trip that puts him in the...
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1997

A Thousand Men and a Baby
5/1
An American soldier finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster. The aircraft's crew welcomed him enthusiastically to provide necessary medical care, but th...
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1983

Murder Me, Murder You
6.6/4
Private eye Mike Hammer probes his long-lost love's death while seeking their daughter.
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1986

The Fifth Missile
6/3
The crew of a Polaris submarine, on a training mission simulating an attack on Russia, is stricken by toxic poisoning. One of the poison's effects is...
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1996

Harvey
4/3
An unlikely hero, Elwood P. Dowd. This mild-mannered-but-eccentric bachelor has, for several years, happily kept company with Harvey, a six-foot-tall...
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2014

Bullet
4.3/106
Danny Trejo plays 'Bullet' a tough cop who takes the law into his own hands when his grandson is kidnapped.
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1977

The Girl in the Empty Grave
7.5/6
The police chief of a small town begins an investigation after a young woman, who was supposed to have died several months previously, starts appearin...
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1996

Wiseguy
4.2/5
Vinnie Terranova is back, foiling a staged kidnaping of computer mogul Paul Callendar's son in order to probe possible inside information brokering. M...
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2014

Authors Anonymous
4.7/53
When a dysfunctional group of unpublished writers accept Hannah into their fold, the last thing they expect is her overnight success. Can these lovabl...
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2016

Term Life
6/308
If Nick Barrow can stay alive for 21 days, he'll die happy. Everyone Nick knows wants him dead; Mob bosses, contract killers, and dirty cops. Performi...
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1994

Body Shot
3.6/7
Paparazzi photographer Mickey Dane is obsessed with elusive pop singer Chelsea, and his attempts to capture her on film often land him in trouble.
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1980

Stir Crazy
6.5/441
New Yorkers Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe have no jobs and no prospects, so they decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, landing jobs wearing...
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1980

Desperate Voyage
7.5/1
A modern-day pirate hijacks private yachts, steals the valuables on board, and sends the passengers to the bottom of the ocean. But his current captiv...
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1993

Marilyn & Bobby: Her Final Affair
6/1
The 1960s. Bobby Kennedy is in power in Washington. Marilyn Monroe is a legendary film star. For years there has been widespread speculation and rumor...
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1989

Honeymoon Academy
5.1/14
A honeymooning couple become entangled in a plot to recover plates for counterfeiting US dollars. SHE thinks she's just retired from a government 'dir...
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1999

Trash
4.8/4
Trash is a coming of age drama set amongst the poverty stricken trailer parks of the deep South. In a spiraling tale of hatred, love and loyalty, two...
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1992

There Goes the Neighborhood
5.4/21
A dying prisoner whispers the location of his loot to the facility's psychologist, who heads to the New Jersey suburbs to find it. Two prisoners overh...
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2014

Horrible Bosses 2
6.18/4169
Dale, Kurt and Nick decide to start their own business but things don't go as planned because of a slick investor, prompting the trio to pull off a ha...
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1988

Pin
6.736/144
Pin, a plastic medical dummy, has been the fixation of Leon since youth. Now grown up and orphaned in an accident, Leon brings Pin home to live with h...
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1979

The Ordeal of Patty Hearst
6/1
The story of the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst by members of a radical guerrilla organization, as seen by the FBI agent in charge of he...
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The Ordeal of Patty Hearst

1994

Shadow of Obsession
0/0
A female professor is taunted and stalked by an emotionally disturbed student, and then, when he disappears, is accused of killing him, although no bo...
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Shadow of Obsession

1979

Ike
6.2/2
Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal rel...
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2013

Watercolor Postcards
6.1/19
A Hollywood actress and a former NFL star strive to save a troubled Texas town while bonding over their shared love of a very special 10-year-old girl...
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Watercolor Postcards

2015

Robot Chicken DC Comics Special III: Magical Friendship
7.7/26
The Robot Chicken DC Comics Special 3: Magical Friendship surrenders DC Comics' multitude of Super Heroes and Super-Villains to the demented whims of...
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Robot Chicken DC Comics Special III: Magical Friendship

2002

Dark Blue
6.2/335
Set during the Rodney King riots, a robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his...
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Dark Blue

2008

Proud American
6/2
Proud American presents five powerful singular stories all of which magnify the themes mentioned above. Our film is an emotional, inspirational, and v...
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Proud American

2002

R.S.V.P.
4/12
A psychology student invites a group of his friends and teacher to a drug and alcohol-fueled party where he plans to murder them all.
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R.S.V.P.

1978

Who'll Stop the Rain
6.5/66
John, a disillusioned Vietnam War journalist, turns to heroin smuggling. He cons Ray, an equally burnt out veteran into delivering the drugs stateside...
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Who'll Stop the Rain

2018

The Commuter
6.4/4398
A businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his life but the lives of those...
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The Commuter

2017

Mudbound
7.383/1231
In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight...
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1974

Linda's Film on Menstruation
5.3/3
This is an educational short released by the Los Angeles Public Library explaining what to expect when you get your first period.
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1987

Wiseguy: Pilot
0/0
This was the feature-length pilot for the hit series. Vinnie Terranova, a Justice Department agent reassigned to the Organized Crime Bureau as a “wise...
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Wiseguy: Pilot

1981

Gangster Wars
7.5/2
The film tells the story of three teenagers, based on real life gangsters Charles "Lucky" Luciano (Michael Nouri), Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (Joe Penny)...
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Gangster Wars

1987

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love
7.2/10
Perry must defend the husband of an old flame from a murder charge.
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love

1984

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
5.985/440
Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

1979

She's Dressed to Kill
5.4/8
A fashion designer gives a private showing at her mansion over a weekend, but someone starts killing off the models.
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She's Dressed to Kill

1986

Who Is Julia?
7.2/4
A strikingly beautiful and wealthy woman is hit by a truck and is all smashed up and nearly killed. At nearly the same time, a very plain looking lowe...
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Who Is Julia?

1984

Gremlins
7.125/6474
When Billy Peltzer is given a strange but adorable pet named Gizmo for Christmas, he inadvertently breaks the three important rules of caring for a Mo...
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Gremlins

2007

Murder 101: College Can be Murder
7.1/7
Criminology Professor Dr. Jonathan Maxwell does not believe that Professor Archer Coe died of a heart attack, so he hires his friend Mike Parker to in...
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Murder 101: College Can be Murder

2018

Redbad
6.31/208
In the year of 754 AD, during a time of epic battles and bloodshed, the legend of the pagan warrior king, Rebad, is born, but so is a new weapon again...
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Redbad

2018

Incredibles 2
7.454/12991
Elastigirl springs into action to save the day, while Mr. Incredible faces his greatest challenge yet – taking care of the problems of his three child...
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Incredibles 2

1983

The Invisible Woman
5/1
In a research lab, a scientist's pet chimpanzee mixes up an invisibility formula. A young woman accidentally drinks the solution and becomes invisible...
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The Invisible Woman

1995

Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
5.85/926
A passenger train has been hijacked by an electronics expert and turned into an untraceable command center for a weapons satellite. He has planned to...
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Under Siege 2: Dark Territory

1980

Rage!
7/1
In an attempt to be rehabilitated, a rapist goes to therapy while in prison.
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Rage!

2019

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
6.96/5000
In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse Pinkman must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future.
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

1977

Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn
5.9/8
In this sequel to Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway, Alexander's story is told in both the past and the present. Alexander's parents send him away f...
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Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn

1977

The Night They Took Miss Beautiful
5.6/5
Criminals hijack an airplane carrying five beauty contest finalists, but unknowingly they've also kidnapped a government agent carrying a dangerous vi...
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The Night They Took Miss Beautiful

1986

Assassin
4.1/5
A retired agent from an Intelligence Agency is contacted by the Agency in order to stop an ultra-secret robot who is killing some government officials...
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Assassin

1978

The Cheap Detective
6.224/85
A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of...
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The Cheap Detective

2015

I'm Brave!
0/0
He's a big red engine with a siren, a horn, a tank full of water, and a whole lotta hose! He's a good-lookin' fire truck — and he's brave, too — but w...
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I'm Brave!

1999

Outlaw Justice
7/13
In the tradition of THE WILD BUNCH and THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN comes this fast paced, action filled western with unforgettable performances by an all st...
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Outlaw Justice

1993

Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal
7.278/9
The owner of a cosmetics company is unveiling a new cream which she claims she's been using. She's been keeping her age a secret and now reveals that...
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal

1999

Millennium Man
0/0
A U.S. intelligence agent's death is averted when his brain is transferred into the billion dollar "Advanced Design Anatomical Man," or ADAM, a techni...
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Millennium Man

2001

Downward Angel
0/0
Assassin John Hunter must infiltrate the notorious Guild and find the man responsible for his parents death.
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Downward Angel

2018

The Wolf: True Alpha
7.5/2
HP's latest entrant in "The Wolf" series once again pits Slater's character against The Fixer.
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The Wolf: True Alpha

2022

Catwoman: Hunted
5.8/115
Catwoman's attempt to steal a priceless jewel puts her squarely in the crosshairs of both a powerful consortium of villains and the ever-resourceful I...
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Catwoman: Hunted

1979

The Rose
6.7/121
Rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster's romantic relationships and mental health are continuously imperilled by the demands of life on the road.
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The Rose

1976

The Macahans
6.7/6
Zeb Macahan, a pioneering westerner, helps move his brother's family to the wild west. They run into several obstacles including the breakout of the C...
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The Macahans

2005

Circadian Rhythm
2.7/3
Attractive 24 year old Sarah Caul finds herself in a bare white room with no idea who she is or how she got there. Quickly she becomes caught up in a...
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Circadian Rhythm

2014

Advanced Television Production - 5 Days, 2 Scripts, No Sleep
0/0
The writer's room during the production of the fifth season of Community struggles with time while the show is being filmed. This behind the scenes do...
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