
James McDaniel
Known for Acting · 74 credits
- Born
- 1958-03-25 (age 68)
- Place of birth
- Washington, D.C., USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
James McDaniel (born March 25, 1958; Washington, D.C.) is an American stage, film and television actor. He is best known for playing Lt. Arthur Fancy on the television show NYPD Blue. He also played a police officer in the ill-fated 1990 series Cop Rock, and a close advisor to activist Malcolm X in the 1992 film Malcolm X. He also played Sgt. Jesse Longford in the ABC television series Detroit 1-8-7.
McDaniel won a 1995 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, NYPD Blue, and won the 2006 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in a Children/Youth/Family Special, "Edge of America".
McDaniel was in the same acting company at SUNY Purchase with actor Jay O. Sanders.
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Known For
TV Shows (33)

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Javier Vega

Law & Order
1990
as Michael Ingrams

Stargate SG-1
1997
as General Francis Maynard

The Good Wife
2009
as Detective Lou Johnson

The View
1997
as Self

NYPD Blue
1993
as Arthur Fancy

Orange Is the New Black
2013
as Jean Baptiste

NCIS: New Orleans
2014
as Papa Parks

Hill Street Blues
1981

Numb3rs
2005
as Phillip Wright

Las Vegas
2003
as Gavin Brunson

New Amsterdam
2018
as Horace Reynolds

Madam Secretary
2014
as Roger Baylis

The Division
2001
as Brian Lawrence

The Following
2013
as Agent Ken Phillips

Sleepy Hollow
2013
as Ezra Mills

Forever
2014
as Al Rainey

The Night Shift
2014
as Dr. Julian Cummings

John Doe
2002
as Colonel Dunagan

Conviction
2006
as Tony Murno

Civil Wars
1991
as Malik Watson

Alaska Daily
2022
as Raymond Green

The Blacklist: Redemption
2017
as Dan Bishop

Fantasy Island
1998
as Louis Burton

Life As We Know It
2004
as William Miller

Detroit 1-8-7
2010
as Sgt. Jesse Longford

Cop Rock
1990
as Officer Franklin Rose

Soundtrack
2019
as Moses

Whiskey Cavalier
2019
as Director of FBI New York Office

Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television
2017
as Captain Jackson

Alex Haley's Queen
1993

Love Monkey
2006
as Derrick Cooper
Almost There
2016
as Dr. Ira Frank
Movies (41)

Malcolm X
1992
as Brother Earl

Truth or Consequences, N.M.
1997
as Frank Thompson

Alice
1990
as Dorothy's Xmas Party Guest

Scam
1993
as Daniel Poole

Beauty & the Briefcase
2010
as Mr. Belmont

Lapsis
2021
as Felix

Strictly Business
1991
as Roland Halloran

Home
2013
as Dr. Parker

Rocket Gibraltar
1988
as Policeman

Internal Affairs
1988
as Fred

Living Hell
2008
as Colonel Eric Maitland

Common Ground
1990
as Steve Grace

A Deadly Vision
1997
as Dr. Tony Natale

Sunshine State
2002
as Reggie Perry

The Defenders: Choice of Evils
1998
as Jack Casey

人间炼狱
2008

War Eagle, Arkansas
2007
as Jack, Videostore Manager

Killer Hair
2009
as Mac

The Old Man and the Sea
1990

See You in September
2010
as Lewis

Murder in Black and White
1990
as Fred

Silencing Mary
1998
as Professor Thiel

Unforgivable
1996
as Spider

Out of Time
2000
as Jack Epson

You're Nobody 'til Somebody Kills You
2012
as Det. Johnson

Night Comes On
2018
as Danny - Parole Officer

Murder Times Seven
1990
as Fred

King's Faith
2013
as Mike

El Cortez
2006
as Arnie

Sacrifice
2015
as Traeger

Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story
2000
as Nat 'King' Cole

Hostile Makeover
2009
as Mac

Edge of America
2003
as Kenny Williams

The Road to Galveston
1996
as Marcus Roosevelt Sr.
Bunker Hill
2008
as Salem

Deliberate Intent
2000
as Lawrence Horn

Sins of the Preacher
2013
as Wade Thompson
Cass
2013
as Franklin Morris Sr.
Butterfly Dreaming
2008
as Dr. Baldrica

Earthwork
2011
as Lone Wolf
Bunker Hill
2009
as Marcus Troy
About James McDaniel
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. James McDaniel (born March 25, 1958; Washington, D.C.) is an American stage, film and television actor. He is best known for playing Lt. Arthur Fancy on the television show NYPD Blue. He also played a police officer in the ill-fated 1990 series Cop Rock, and a close advisor to activist Malcolm X in the 1992 film Malcolm X. He also played Sgt. Jesse Longford in the ABC television series Detroit 1-8-7. McDaniel won a 1995 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series… With 74 credits spanning from 1981 to 2022, James McDaniel has appeared in 41 films and 33 TV shows.
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- Malcolm X (1992) — as Brother Earl
- Truth or Consequences, N.M. (1997) — as Frank Thompson
- Alice (1990) — as Dorothy's Xmas Party Guest
- Scam (1993) — as Daniel Poole
- Beauty & the Briefcase (2010) — as Mr. Belmont
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