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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1958-03-25 (67 years old)

Place of Birth

Washington, D.C., USA

James McDaniel

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

Acting

2022

Alaska Daily as Raymond Green

2021

Lapsis as Felix

2019

Whiskey Cavalier as Director of FBI New York Office
Soundtrack as Moses

2018

Night Comes On as Danny - Parole Officer
New Amsterdam as Horace Reynolds

2017

2016

Almost There as Dr. Ira Frank

2015

Sacrifice as Traeger

2014

Forever as Al Rainey
The Night Shift as Dr. Julian Cummings
NCIS: New Orleans as Papa Parks
Madam Secretary as Air Force General Roger Baylis

2013

Home as Dr. Parker
King's Faith as Mike
Cass as Franklin Morris Sr.
Sins of the Preacher as Wade Thompson
Orange Is the New Black as Jean Baptiste
The Following as Agent Ken Phillips
Sleepy Hollow as Ezra Mills

2012

2011

Earthwork as Lone Wolf

2010

Beauty & the Briefcase as Mr. Belmont
Detroit 1-8-7 as Sgt. Jesse Longford

2009

The Good Wife as Detective Lou Johnson

2008

Living Hell as Colonel Eric Maitland
Butterfly Dreaming as Dr. Baldrica
Bunker Hill as Salem

2007

War Eagle, Arkansas as Jack, Videostore Manager

2006

El Cortez as Arnie
Conviction as Tony Murno
Love Monkey as Derrick Cooper

2005

2004

Life As We Know It as William Miller

2003

Edge of America as Kenny Williams

2002

Sunshine State as Reggie Perry
Taken as General Beers

2001

2000

Deliberate Intent as Lawrence Horn
Out of Time as Jack Epson

1999

1998

Silencing Mary as Professor Thiel
Fantasy Island as Louis Burton

1997

A Deadly Vision as Dr. Tony Natale
Truth or Consequences, N.M. as Frank Thompson
The View as Self
Stargate SG-1 as General Francis Maynard

1996

The Road to Galveston as Marcus Roosevelt Sr.
Unforgivable as Spider

1993

Scam as Daniel Poole
NYPD Blue as Arthur Fancy

1992

Malcolm X as Brother Earl

1991

Strictly Business as Roland Halloran

1990

Alice as Dorothy's Xmas Party Guest
Common Ground as Steve Grace
Law & Order as Michael Ingrams
Cop Rock as Officer Franklin Rose

1988

1981

Directing

1997

C-16: FBI as Director

1993

NYPD Blue as Director