Joey Banks

Joey Banks is a former actor and stuntman who worked as background actor and stuntman on the seventh season of . For the episode , Banks also worked as technical baseball adviser and trained the main cast members in baseball techniques. () He received no credit for his work and appearances.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Banks is the son of the late professional Chicago Cubs outfielder and Baseball Hall of Fame inductee and Eloyce Benton Johnson. He has a twin brother, Jerry, and a sister, Jan. Between 1977 and 1979, he attended Scottsdale Community College where he studied baseball and then played pro-baseball for the Windsor Royals in Brisbane, Australia. In 1981, he graduated from University of Southern California. Also in 1981, Banks started to work as actor within the Screen Extras Guild until 2000. He has also worked as stuntman since 1981. Since 2000, Banks has been working in the transportation department for Local 399.
Among his earlier background acting work are episodes of Cheers (1983, episodes "They Call Me Mayday", "How Do I Love Thee?...Let Me Call You Back", and "Where There's a Will..." and 1984, episodes "And Coachie Makes Three" and "Peterson Crusoe" with John Marzilli), Murder, She Wrote (1985, episode "Murder to a Jazz Beat" with Clive Revill, Michael Canavan, John Arndt, and Eric Mansker), Dynasty (1986, episode "The Divorce" with Joan Collins, Robert Symonds, Robert Buckingham, Tim McCormack, and Roger Trantham), , and Columbo (1989, episode "Murder, a Self Portrait" with Fionnula Flanagan, Isabel Lorca, George Coe, and Jean-Paul Vignon). Also a trained stuntman, Banks trained with and Rusty McClennon in 1984.
Banks also appeared in (1985, with Stephen Collins, Robert Ellenstein, Allan Miller, Michael G. Hagerty, Allan Graf, Margot Rose, Mike Paciorek, Bob Harks, and Danny Nero), (1985, with Gina Hecht), (1985), (1986, with Lee Arnone-Briggs, George O'Hanlon, Jr., and Tamlyn Tomita), (1988, with Ricardo Montalban, Raye Birk, Tiny Ron, Nicholas Worth, Lawrence Tierney, Rick Seaman, Mark Holton, Joel Schultz, Robert Herron, Brett Bartlett, Len Felber, George Sasaki, and Bruce Dobos), (1990, with Noble Willingham), and (1991, with Tony Plana, Victor Rivers, Michael G. Hagerty, Barbara Townsend, Tierre Turner, and Henry Kingi, Jr.).
Further acting work includes episodes of L.A. Law and (1992, starring Steven Weber), (1993, starring Wesley Snipes, with Bob Gunton, Mark Colson, Bill Cobbs, Don Charles McGovern, Kristopher Logan, Chris Durand, Brett Jones, Adrienne Barbeau, Vanna Bonta, and Tracee Lee Cocco), (1994, with Corbin Bernsen), (1996, starring Wesley Snipes, with Benicio del Toro, Charles Hallahan, Dan Butler, Michael Jace, Brad William Henke, James G. MacDonald, Michael Bofshever, Don Fischer, Troy Cephers, Brian Freifield, Earl Billings, Richard Riehle, John Carroll Lynch, Greg Bronson, Richard Lawrence, and Patti Tippo), (1996, starring Jayne Brook, with Stan Ivar, Jim O'Heir, Bill Cobbs, Leonard Kelly-Young, Patrick Kerr, Jay Caputo, Doren Fein, Noon Orsatti, Mitchell Ryan, and John-Clay Scott), (2001, with Bruce McGill, Christopher McDonald, Bob Gunton, Seymour Cassel, Robert Joy, Michael Nouri, Dell Yount, Connor Trinneer, Matthew Kaminsky, J.D. Cullum, Robert Costanzo, Kiff VandenHeuvel, and Conor O'Farrell), (2001, with Tony Brubaker, Eugene Collier, John Moio, Hugh Aodh O'Brien, Jeff Sanders, and stunt coordination by Bob Minor), and (2003, with Wallace Shawn, Michelle Krusiec, Robert Wisdom, Gary Riotto, Louis Giambalvo, Tracey Walter, Jenette Goldstein, Chris Doyle, and stunts by Merritt Yohnka, Erik Stabenau, and Joni Avery).
In 1996, Banks worked as baseball technical adviser on . The films features Salli Elise Richardson, Gina Ravarra, Jerry Hardin, J.D. Hall, Richard Riehle, Mimi Cozzens, Bruce Beatty, Erika Flores, Holiday Freeman, Jeff Coopwood, Sean Blakemore, and stunts by Bob Minor and Jimmy Ortega). In 2003, he worked as set production assistant on which features Ray Wise and Jonathan Breck and stunts by Elle Alexander, Mark Chadwick, Bobby Burns, Oliver Keller, Angela Meryl, and Austin Priester.
In the 2000's, Banks moved from acting and stuntwork into the transportation department. He received credit as transportation captain on (2009, featuring Paul Hayes, Phil Morris, Damion Poitier, Salli Elise Richardson, Tucker Smallwood, Mike Starr, Andray Johnson, and Lauren Kim). Other projects on which Banks worked as driver include (2007), (2007, with Christian Slater, Michael Clarke Duncan, Fionnula Flanagan, William Lucking, Scott L. Treger, Bill Blair, and Gary Wayton) on which he worked with fellow driver Douglas Price, (2013, with Joe Chrest and Anthony Molinari), the comedy series Angel from Hell (2016, with Diora Baird), and the comedy Palm Springs (2020, with Michelle Johnston).
== Star Trek appearances ==
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