John Francis Daley

John Francis Daley

Born: July 20, 1985
in Wheeling, Illinois, USA
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.

Movies for John Francis Daley...

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Title: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Character: Special Creature Voice (voice)
Released: March 23, 2023
Type: Movie
A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.
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5-25-77
Title: 5-25-77
Character: Pat Johnson
Released: October 11, 2022
Type: Movie
Alienated, hopeful-filmmaker Pat Johnson's epic story growing up in rural Illinois, falling in love, and becoming the first fan of the movie that changed everything.
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Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary
Title: Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary
Character: Self
Released: August 2, 2018
Type: Movie
The creators and actors from the TV show 'Freaks and Geeks' share their untold stories and pivotal moments from the making of the series that only aired for one season.
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Game Night
Title: Game Night
Character: Carter
Released: February 15, 2018
Type: Movie
Max and Annie's weekly game night gets kicked up a notch when Max's brother Brooks arranges a murder mystery party -- complete with fake thugs and federal agents. So when Brooks gets kidnapped, it's all supposed to be part of the game. As the competitors set out to solve the case, they start to learn that neither the game nor Brooks are what they seem to be. The friends soon find themselves in over their heads as each twist leads to another unexpected turn over the course of one chaotic night.
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Vacation
Title: Vacation
Character: Ride Operator
Released: July 28, 2015
Type: Movie
Hoping to bring his family closer together and to recreate his childhood vacation for his own kids, a grown up Rusty Griswold takes his wife and their two sons on a cross-country road trip to the coolest theme park in America, Walley World. Needless to say, things don't go quite as planned.
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Dude Bro Party Massacre III
Title: Dude Bro Party Massacre III
Character: Ernest
Released: June 13, 2015
Type: Movie
In the wake of two back-to-back mass murders on Chico's frat row, loner Brent Chirino must infiltrate the ranks of a popular fraternity to investigate his twin brother's murder at the hands of the serial killer known as "Motherface."
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Rapture-Palooza
Title: Rapture-Palooza
Character: Ben House
Released: June 7, 2013
Type: Movie
Two teens battle their way through a religious apocalypse on a mission to defeat the Antichrist.
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The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
Title: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
Character: Paramedic 1
Released: March 14, 2013
Type: Movie
After breaking up with his longtime stage partner, a famous but jaded Vegas magician fights for relevance when a new, "hip" street magician appears on the scene.
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Title: The Finder
Character: Lance Sweets
Released: January 12, 2012
Type: TV
Walter Sherman, an Iraq War veteran, has the extraordinary ability to help people find the unfindable.
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Horrible Bosses
Title: Horrible Bosses
Character: Carter
Released: July 8, 2011
Type: Movie
For Nick, Kurt and Dale, the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be to grind their intolerable bosses into dust. Quitting is not an option, so, with the benefit of a few-too-many drinks and some dubious advice from a hustling ex-con, the three friends devise a convoluted and seemingly foolproof plan to rid themselves of their respective employers... permanently.
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Title: Clark and Michael
Character: Tom
Released: May 23, 2007
Type: TV
Clark and Michael is a CBS Internet television series created by and starring Clark Duke and Michael Cera. The series takes the form of a mockumentary following Duke and Cera's ambitions to write and sell a pilot for a television series.
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Waiting...
Title: Waiting...
Character: Mitch
Released: October 7, 2005
Type: Movie
Employees at a Bennigan's-like restaurant (called, creatively enough, Shenanigan's), kill time before their real lives get started. But while they wait, they'll have to deal with picky customers who want their steak cooked to order and enthusiastic managers who want to build the perfect wait staff. Luckily, these employees have effective revenge tactics.
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Title: Kitchen Confidential
Character: Jim
Released: September 19, 2005
Type: TV
Jack Bourdain had it all but messed it up going wild. Four years later, he ends up with a crappy job in Pizza Chain. Then, he gets an offer to get back in the game as the chef of a famous restaurant.
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Title: Bones
Character: Lance Sweets
Released: September 13, 2005
Type: TV
Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.
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Title: Regular Joe
Released: March 28, 2003
Type: TV
Regular Joe is an American sitcom that aired from March 28 until April 18, 2003 on ABC.
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View from the Top
Title: View from the Top
Character: Rodney
Released: March 21, 2003
Type: Movie
No one thought Donna would go very far. But when she sets her sights on becoming a first-class international flight attendant, Donna throws caution to the wind and takes off in pursuit of her dream. The ride is anything but smooth, however, and Donna's laugh-packed journey of a lifetime is rocked by more turbulence than she bargained for.
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Title: The Ellen Show
Released: September 24, 2001
Type: TV
When her high-profile start-up Internet company goes belly up, Ellen gives up her high-powered career and heads back to her small hometown to put her life together. She gets a counselor at her old high school and moves in with her eccentric mother and unlucky-in-love sister.
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Title: Boston Public
Character: Anthony Ward
Released: October 23, 2000
Type: TV
Principal Steven Harper runs Winslow High School as best as he can while dealing with the demands of the faculty, the students and their parents.
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Title: The Geena Davis Show
Character: Carter Ryan
Released: October 10, 2000
Type: TV
The Geena Davis Show is an American sitcom starring Geena Davis. The show lasted one season on ABC.
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Title: Freaks and Geeks
Character: Sam Weir
Released: September 25, 1999
Type: TV
High school mathlete Lindsay Weir rebels and begins hanging out with a crowd of burnouts (the "freaks"), while her brother Sam Weir navigates a different part of the social universe with his nerdy friends (the "geeks").
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Title: Judging Amy
Character: Jace Crosby
Released: September 19, 1999
Type: TV
Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV. This TV series starred Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly. Its main character is a judge who serves in a family court, and in addition to the family-related cases that she adjudicates, many episodes of the show focus on her own experiences as a divorced mother, and on the experiences of her mother, a social worker who works in the field of child welfare. This series was based on the life experiences of Brenneman's mother.
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Title: Spin City
Character: Spencer
Released: September 17, 1996
Type: TV
Workaholic Mike Flaherty is the Deputy Mayor of New York City, serving as Mayor Randall Winston's key strategist and much-needed handler. Mike runs the city with the help of his oddball staff: an anxious and insecure press secretary; a sexist, boorish chief of staff; an impeccably groomed gay activist running minority affairs; a sharp and efficient, man-crazy accountant; and an idealistic young speechwriter. Like Mike, they are all professionally capable but personally challenged.