John Francis Daley

Born: 1985-07-20

John Francis Daley (born July 20, 1985; Wheeling) is an American screenwriter, director, actor and musician. He is best known for playing high school freshman Sam Weir on the NBC comedy-drama Freaks and Geeks and FBI criminal profiler Dr. Lance Sweets on the crime drama series Bones, for which he was nominated for a 2014 PRISM Award. He plays keyboards and sings for the band Dayplayer. Daley is also best known for his collaborative work with fellow writer and director Jonathan Goldstein, working on various films together. Daley and Goldstein's first work together was co-writing the comedy Horrible Bosses (2011), co-writers for The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013), co-story writing for Horrible Bosses 2 (2014), and co-writing/co-directing (in their directing debuts) the fifth film in the National Lampoon's Vacation film series, Vacation (2015). The duo were co-writers for Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) with Jon Watts, Christopher Ford, Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, and they co-directed the 2018 comedy Game Night.


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as Special Creature Voice (voice)
Released: 2023-03-23

A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost...

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Vacation

as Ride Operator
Released: 2015-07-28

Hoping to bring his family closer together and to recreate his childhood vacation for his own...

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Game Night

as Carter
Released: 2018-02-15

Max and Annie's weekly game night gets kicked up a notch when Max's brother Brooks arranges a...

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as Carter
Released: 2011-07-08

For Nick, Kurt and Dale, the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be...

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Waiting...

as Mitch
Released: 2005-10-07

Employees at a Bennigan's-like restaurant (called, creatively enough, Shenanigan's), kill time...

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The Incredible Burt Wonderstone

as Paramedic 1
Released: 2013-03-14

After breaking up with his longtime stage partner, a famous but jaded Vegas magician fights for...

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View from the Top

as Rodney
Released: 2003-03-21

No one thought Donna would go very far. But when she sets her sights on becoming a first-class...

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Rapture-Palooza

as Ben House
Released: 2013-06-07

Two teens battle their way through a religious apocalypse on a mission to defeat the Antichrist.

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5-25-77

as Pat Johnson
Released: 2022-10-11

Alienated, hopeful-filmmaker Pat Johnson's epic story growing up in rural Illinois, falling in...

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Dude Bro Party Massacre III

as Ernest
Released: 2015-06-13

In the wake of two back-to-back mass murders on Chico's frat row, loner Brent Chirino must...

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Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary

as Self
Released: 2018-08-02

The creators and actors from the TV show 'Freaks and Geeks' share their untold stories and...

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Bones

as Lance Sweets
First aired: 2005-09-13

Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special...

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Spin City

as Spencer
First aired: 1996-09-17

Workaholic Mike Flaherty is the Deputy Mayor of New York City, serving as Mayor Randall...

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Judging Amy

as Jace Crosby
First aired: 1999-09-19

Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through...

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Boston Public

as Anthony Ward
First aired: 2000-10-23

Principal Steven Harper runs Winslow High School as best as he can while dealing with the...

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Freaks and Geeks

as Sam Weir
First aired: 1999-09-25

High school mathlete Lindsay Weir rebels and begins hanging out with a crowd of burnouts (the...

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The Finder

as Lance Sweets
First aired: 2012-01-12

Walter Sherman, an Iraq War veteran, has the extraordinary ability to help people find the...

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The Geena Davis Show

as Carter Ryan
First aired: 2000-10-10

The Geena Davis Show is an American sitcom starring Geena Davis. The show lasted one season on ABC.

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The Ellen Show

as uncredited
First aired: 2001-09-24

When her high-profile start-up Internet company goes belly up, Ellen gives up her high-powered...

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Kitchen Confidential

as Jim
First aired: 2005-09-19

Jack Bourdain had it all but messed it up going wild. Four years later, he ends up with a crappy...

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Clark and Michael

as Tom
First aired: 2007-05-23

Clark and Michael is a CBS Internet television series created by and starring Clark Duke and...

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