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Known For

Writing

Known Credits

69

Gender

Male

Birthday

1985-07-20 (40 years old)

Place of Birth

Wheeling, Illinois, USA

Also Known As

Джон Фрэнсис Дейли

John Daley

جان فرانسیس دالی

John Francis Daley

Biography

John Francis Daley (born July 20, 1985) is an American filmmaker and actor. 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 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-writing 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 and the 2023 fantasy Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Francis Daley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Acting

Waiting...

2005

Waiting...

as

Mitch

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

2023

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

as

Special Creature Voice (voice)

Horrible Bosses

2011

Horrible Bosses

as

Carter

Rapture-Palooza

2013

Rapture-Palooza

as

Ben House

5-25-77

2008

5-25-77

as

Pat Johnson

Vacation

2015

Vacation

as

Ride Operator

Bottom's Butte

2016

Bottom's Butte

as

Scott/Cabana Boy

View from the Top

2003

View from the Top

as

Rodney

Game Night

2018

Game Night

as

Carter

Boston Public

Boston Public

as

Anthony Ward

Judging Amy

Judging Amy

as

Jace Crosby

Spin City

Spin City

as

Spencer

Regular Joe

Regular Joe

as

Grant Binder

Bones

Bones

as

Lance Sweets

The Finder

The Finder

as

Lance Sweets

Drunk History

Drunk History

as

James J. Andrews

Production

Crew

Directing