John Francis Daley
John Francis Daley (born July 20, 1985; Wheeling) is an American screenwriter, director, actor and musician. 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 best 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-writers for 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.
Known For
Credits
- 2023 · Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves as Special Creature Voice (voice)
- 2018 · Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary as Self
- 2018 · Game Night as Carter
- 2016 · Bottom's Butte as Scott/Cabana Boy
- 2015 · Vacation as Ride Operator
- 2015 · Dude Bro Party Massacre III as Ernest
- 2015 · Fresh Off the Boat as Jordan
- 2013 · Rapture-Palooza as Ben House
- 2013 · The Incredible Burt Wonderstone as Paramedic 1
- 2012 · The Finder as Lance Sweets
- 2011 · Horrible Bosses as Carter
- 2008 · 5-25-77 as Pat Johnson
- 2007 · Clark and Michael as Tom
- 2005 · Waiting... as Mitch
- 2005 · Kitchen Confidential as Jim
- 2005 · Bones as Lance Sweets
- 2003 · Regular Joe as
- 2003 · View from the Top as Rodney
- 2001 · The Ellen Show as
- 2000 · Boston Public as Anthony Ward
- 2000 · The Geena Davis Show as Carter Ryan
- 1999 · Freaks and Geeks as Sam Weir
- 1999 · Judging Amy as Jace Crosby
- 1996 · Spin City as Spencer