John Francis Daley

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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.

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2026
Mayday
Movie LSO
2024
Hysteria!
TV show Executive Producer
2023
Vacation Friends 2
Movie Characters
2023
The Flash
Movie Screenstory
2023
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Movie Special Creature Voice (voice)
2021
Vacation Friends
Movie Writer
2021
Welcome to Georgia
Movie Screenplay
2019
Stuber
Movie Producer
2019
In the Dark
TV show Director
2018
Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary
Movie Self
2018
Cultureshock
TV show Self
2018
Game Night
Movie Carter
2017
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Movie Screenstory
2016
Bottom's Butte
Movie Scott/Cabana Boy
2015
Vacation
Movie Ride Operator
2015
Dude Bro Party Massacre III
Movie Ernest