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James McDaniel

Acting

Born March 25, 1958 · 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article James McDaniel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Awards & recognition

  • Screen Actors Guild AwardOutstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series · 1995

Filmography45 titles

New Amsterdam

2018as Horace Reynolds

Stargate SG-1

1997as General Francis Maynard

War Eagle, Arkansas

2007as Jack, Videostore Manager

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999as Javier Vega

Forever

2014as Al Rainey

Orange Is the New Black

2013as Jean Baptiste

The Good Wife

2009as Detective Lou Johnson

Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story

2000as Nat 'King' Cole

Malcolm X

1992as Brother Earl

Hill Street Blues

1981

The Night Shift

2014as Dr. Julian Cummings

Fantasy Island

1998as Louis Burton

Sleepy Hollow

2013as Ezra Mills

NCIS: New Orleans

2014as Papa Parks

Law & Order

1990as Michael Ingrams

Alaska Daily

2022as Raymond Green

Las Vegas

2003as Gavin Brunson

Unforgivable

1996as Spider

NYPD Blue

1993as Arthur Fancy

Madam Secretary

2014as Roger Baylis

King's Faith

2013as Mike

Numb3rs

2005as Phillip Wright

Queen

1993

Whiskey Cavalier

2019as Director of FBI New York Office

Home

2013as Dr. Parker

The Following

2013as Agent Ken Phillips

The Blacklist: Redemption

2017as Dan Bishop

Detroit 1-8-7

2010as Sgt. Jesse Longford

Edge of America

2003as Kenny Williams

Sunshine State

2002as Reggie Perry

Alice

1990as Dorothy's Xmas Party Guest

The Old Man and the Sea

1990

Truth or Consequences, N.M.

1997as Frank Thompson

Lapsis

2020as Felix

Soundtrack

2019as Moses

Night Comes On

2018as Danny - Parole Officer

Conviction

2006as Tony Murno

Rocket Gibraltar

1988as Policeman

Beauty & the Briefcase

2010as Mr. Belmont

A Deadly Vision

1997as Dr. Tony Natale

Strictly Business

1991as Roland Halloran

Sins of the Preacher

2013as Wade Thompson

You're Nobody 'til Somebody Kills You

2012as Det. Johnson

The View

1997as Self

Sacrifice

2015as Traeger