Joey Banks
Joey "Dogg" 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), Matlock, 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 the comedy Brewster's Millions (1985, with Stephen Collins, Robert Ellenstein, Allan Miller, Michael G. Hagerty, Allan Graf, Margot Rose, Mike Paciorek, Bob Harks, and Danny Nero), the drama St. Elmo's Fire (1985, with Gina Hecht), the drama The Breakfast Club (1985), the sequel The Karate Kid Part II (1986, with Lee Arnone-Briggs, George O'Hanlon, Jr., and Tamlyn Tomita), the comedy The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (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), the sport drama Pastime (1990, with Noble Willingham), and the action drama One Good Cop (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 Wings (1992, episode "Blackout Buggins" with Steven Weber), the science fiction thriller Demolition Man (1993, with Wesley Snipes, Bob Gunton, Mark Colson, Bill Cobbs, Don Charles McGovern, Kristopher Logan, Chris Durand, Brett Jones, Adrienne Barbeau, Vanna Bonta, and Tracee Lee Cocco), the sequel Major League II (1994, with Corbin Bernsen), the sport drama The Fan (1996, with Wesley Snipes, 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), the sport comedy Ed (1996, with Stan Ivar, Jim O'Heir, Bill Cobbs, Leonard Kelly-Young, Jayne Brook, Patrick Kerr, Jay Caputo, Doren Fein, Noon Orsatti, Mitchell Ryan, and John-Clay Scott), the television drama 61* (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), the crime drama Baby Boy (2001, with Tony Brubaker, Eugene Collier, John Moio, Hugh Aodh O'Brien, Jeff Sanders, and stunt coordination by Bob Minor), and the comedy Duplex (2003, with Wallace Shawn, Michelle Krusiec, 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 television drama Soul of the Game. 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 the horror sequel Jeepers Creepers 2 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 the action comedy Black Dynamite (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 the thriller Disturbia (2007), the fantasy drama Slipstream (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, the thriller Now You See Me (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).

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