Jeff Daniels
Jeffrey Warren "Jeff" Daniels (born February 19, 1955) is an American actor, musician and playwright. He founded a non-profit theatre company, the Purple Rose Theatre Company, in his home state of Michigan. He has performed in a number of stage productions, both on and off Broadway. He has been nominated for the Tony Award as Best Actor for the Broadway play God of Carnage (2009), along with his other three cast-mates. He has had a thriving film career, from his debut in 1981 in Ragtime, through State of Play in 2009. For his film work, he has received three Golden Globe Award nominations, including as Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical for Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) (hence the name of his theatre company). He has also received nominations by the Screen Actors Guild, Satellite Awards, and several for his work in The Squid and the Whale (London Critics Circle Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, Chlotrudis Awards and Gotham Awards). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeff Daniels, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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- Born:
- Feb 19, 1955 In Athens, Georgia, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 106
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Blind Logic: The Ralph R. Teetor Story
- Latest Project:
- Movie Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story 2024-09-21
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Blind Logic: The Ralph R. Teetor Story | Ralph Teetor (voice) | 2025 |
| Movie | Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story | Self | 2024-09-21 |
| Series | A Man in Full | Charlie Croker | 2024-05-02 |
| Movie | The Saint of Second Chances | Narrator (voice) | 2023-06-11 |
| Series | The American Buffalo | (voice) | 2023-10-16 |
| Movie | Bye Bye Barry | Self | 2023-11-20 |
| Series | Hemingway | Ernest Hemingway (voice) | 2021-04-05 |
| Movie | 9/11: Inside the President's War Room | Narrator | 2021-08-31 |
| Series | American Rust | Det. Del Harris | 2021-09-12 |
| Movie | Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age | Self | 2021-08-14 |
| Series | Washington | Self - Narrator | 2020-02-16 |
| Series | The Comey Rule | James Comey | 2020-09-27 |
| Movie | Guest Artist | Joseph Harris | 2019-02-07 |
| Series | The Looming Tower | John O'Neill | 2018-02-28 |
| Movie | The Emperor's Newest Clothes | The Emperor | 2018-11-15 |
| Movie | The Russian Five | Himself | 2018-04-11 |
| Movie | The Catcher Was a Spy | Bill Donovan | 2018-06-22 |
| Movie | Broadway: The Next Generation | Self | 2017-11-16 |
| Series | Godless | Frank Griffin | 2017-11-22 |
| Movie | Allegiant | David | 2016-03-09 |
| Movie | Of Miracles and Men | Self - Narrator | 2015-02-08 |
| Movie | The Martian | Teddy Sanders | 2015-09-30 |
| Movie | "That's Awesome!": The Story of 'Dumb and Dumber To' | Self | 2015-02-17 |
| Movie | Steve Jobs | John Sculley | 2015-10-09 |
| Movie | Dumb and Dumber To | Harry Dunne | 2014-11-12 |
| Movie | James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend | Self | 2013-12-22 |
| Series | The Newsroom | Will McAvoy | 2012-06-24 |
| Movie | Looper | Abe | 2012-09-26 |
| Movie | Howl | Professor David Kirk | 2010-08-26 |
| Movie | The Answer Man | Arlen Faber | 2009-01-18 |
| Movie | State of Play | George Fergus | 2009-04-17 |
| Movie | Paper Man | Richard Dunn | 2009-06-15 |
| Movie | Away We Go | Jerry Farlander | 2009-06-05 |
| Movie | Sweet Nothing in My Ear | Dan Miller | 2008-04-20 |
| Movie | Space Chimps | Zartog (voice) | 2008-06-25 |
| Movie | Traitor | Carter | 2008-08-23 |
| Movie | A Plumm Summer | Narrator | 2008-04-25 |
| Movie | The Lookout | Lewis | 2007-03-09 |
| Movie | Mama's Boy | Mert Rosenbloom | 2007-12-14 |
| Movie | Still Dumb After All These Years | Self | 2006-01-03 |
| Movie | RV | Travis Gornicke | 2006-04-28 |
| Movie | Robin Williams: A Family Affair | Self | 2006-08-15 |
| Movie | RV Nation: The Culture of Road Warriors | Self | 2006-08-15 |
| Movie | Infamous | Alvin Dewey | 2006-10-13 |
| Movie | Barry Sonnenfeld: The Kosher Cowboy | Self | 2006-08-15 |
| Movie | Good Night, and Good Luck. | Sig Mickelson | 2005-09-16 |
| Movie | Because of Winn-Dixie | Preacher | 2005-02-18 |
| Series | The Colbert Report | Unknown | 2005-10-17 |
| Movie | The Squid and the Whale | Bernard Berkman | 2005-10-05 |
| Movie | The Goodbye Girl | Elliot Garfield | 2004-01-16 |
| Movie | The Five People You Meet In Heaven | Blue Man | 2004-12-05 |
| Movie | Imaginary Heroes | Ben Travis | 2004-09-14 |
| Series | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Unknown | 2003-01-26 |
| Movie | Gods and Generals | Lt. Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain | 2003-02-21 |
| Series | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Unknown | 2003-09-08 |
| Movie | Saturday Night Live: The Best of Chris Farley | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2003-10-26 |
| Movie | I Witness | James Rhodes | 2003-04-13 |
| Movie | Super Sucker | Fred Barlow | 2002-02-24 |
| Movie | Blood Work | Jasper 'Buddy' Noone | 2002-08-09 |
| Movie | The Hours | Louis Waters | 2002-12-27 |
| Movie | Escanaba in da Moonlight | Rueben Soady | 2001-01-26 |
| Movie | Chasing Sleep | Ed Saxon | 2001-05-16 |
| Movie | Cheaters | Dr. Gerard Plecki | 2000-05-20 |
| Movie | The Crossing | Gen. George Washington | 2000-01-10 |
| Movie | It's the Rage | Warren Harding | 1999-09-11 |
| Movie | My Favorite Martian | Tim O'Hara | 1999-02-11 |
| Movie | Pleasantville | Mr. Johnson | 1998-09-17 |
| Movie | Trial and Error | Charles Tuttle | 1997-05-30 |
| Series | The View | Unknown | 1997-08-11 |
| Series | The Daily Show | Unknown | 1996-07-22 |
| Movie | 2 Days in the Valley | Alvin Strayer | 1996-09-11 |
| Movie | 101 Dalmatians | Roger | 1996-11-27 |
| Movie | Fly Away Home | Thomas Alden | 1996-09-13 |
| Movie | Redwood Curtain | Lyman Fellers | 1995-01-01 |
| Movie | Speed | Harry | 1994-06-09 |
| Movie | Dumb and Dumber | Harry Dunne | 1994-12-16 |
| Movie | Rain Without Thunder | Jonathan Garson | 1993-02-05 |
| Series | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Unknown | 1993-09-13 |
| Movie | Gettysburg | Col. Joshua Chamberlain | 1993-10-08 |
| Series | Frasier | Guest Caller - Doug | 1993-09-16 |
| Movie | Timescape | Ben Wilson | 1992-01-11 |
| Series | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Unknown | 1992-05-25 |
| Movie | There Goes the Neighborhood | Willis Embry | 1992-10-30 |
| Movie | The Butcher's Wife | Dr. Alex Tremor | 1991-10-25 |
| Movie | Love Hurts | Paul Weaver | 1990-04-19 |
| Movie | Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael | Denton Webb | 1990-10-12 |
| Movie | Arachnophobia | Ross Jennings | 1990-07-20 |
| Movie | No Place Like Home | Mike Cooper | 1989-12-03 |
| Series | Tanner '88 | 1988-02-15 | |
| Movie | The House on Carroll Street | Cochran | 1988-03-04 |
| Movie | Checking Out | Ray Macklin | 1988-10-26 |
| Movie | The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial | Lt. Steve Maryk | 1988-05-08 |
| Movie | Sweet Hearts Dance | Sam Manners | 1988-09-23 |
| Movie | Radio Days | Biff Baxter | 1987-01-30 |
| Movie | Something Wild | Charles Driggs | 1986-11-07 |
| Movie | Heartburn | Richard | 1986-07-25 |
| Movie | The Purple Rose of Cairo | Tom Baxter / Gil Shepherd | 1985-03-01 |
| Movie | Marie: A True Story | Eddie Sisk | 1985-09-27 |
| Movie | Terms of Endearment | Flap Horton | 1983-11-20 |
| Movie | An Invasion of Privacy | Francis Ryan | 1983-01-12 |
| Movie | Fifth of July | Jed Jenkins | 1982-10-11 |
| Movie | Ragtime | P.C. O'Donnell | 1981-11-20 |
| Series | A Rumor of War | Chaplain | 1980-09-24 |
| Series | Saturday Night Live | Unknown | 1975-10-11 |
| Series | Hawaii Five-O | Unknown | 1968-09-20 |
| Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |