Portrait of James McDaniel

James McDaniel

Acting

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article James McDaniel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born: March 25, 1958

Place of Birth: Washington, D.C., USA

Filmography

2022
Alaska Daily

as Raymond Green

2021
Lapsis

as Felix

2019
Soundtrack

as Moses

2019
Whiskey Cavalier

as Director of FBI New York Office

2018
New Amsterdam

as Horace Reynolds

2018
Night Comes On

as Danny - Parole Officer

2017
2015
Sacrifice

as Traeger

2014
NCIS: New Orleans

as Papa Parks

2014
Forever

as Al Rainey

2014
Madam Secretary

as Roger Baylis

2014
The Night Shift

as Dr. Julian Cummings

2013
Home

as Dr. Parker

2013
Sleepy Hollow

as Ezra Mills

2013
Sins of the Preacher

as Wade Thompson

2013
Orange Is the New Black

as Jean Baptiste

2013
2013
Cass

as Franklin Morris Sr.

2013
The Following

as Agent Ken Phillips

2011
Earthwork

as Lone Wolf

2010
Detroit 1-8-7

as Sgt. Jesse Longford

2010
2009
The Good Wife

as Detective Lou Johnson

2009
2008
Living Hell

as Colonel Eric Maitland

2007
War Eagle, Arkansas

as Jack, Videostore Manager

2006
El Cortez

as Arnie

2006
Conviction

as Tony Murno

2006
Love Monkey

as Derrick Cooper

2005
Numb3rs

as Phillip Wright

2004
Life As We Know It

as William Miller

2003
Edge of America

as Kenny Williams

2003
Las Vegas

as Gavin Brunson

2002
Taken

as General Beers

2002
John Doe

as Colonel Dunagan

2002
Sunshine State

as Reggie Perry

2001
The Division

as Brian Lawrence

2000
Deliberate Intent

as Lawrence Horn

2000
Out of Time

as Jack Epson

1998
Fantasy Island

as Louis Burton

1998
Silencing Mary

as Professor Thiel

1997
The View

as Self

1997
Stargate SG-1

as General Francis Maynard

1997
1997
A Deadly Vision

as Dr. Tony Natale

1996
Unforgivable

as Spider

1996
The Road to Galveston

as Marcus Roosevelt Sr.

1993
NYPD Blue

as Arthur Fancy

1993
Scam

as Daniel Poole

1992
Malcolm X

as Brother Earl

1991
Civil Wars

as Malik Watson

1991
Strictly Business

as Roland Halloran

1990
Alice

as Dorothy's Xmas Party Guest

1990
Cop Rock

as Officer Franklin Rose

1990
Law & Order

as Michael Ingrams

1990
Common Ground

as Steve Grace

1988
1988
Rocket Gibraltar

as Policeman