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 Outst...
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Complete Filmography

Lapsis
2021
as Felix
In a parallel present, delivery man Ray Tincelli is struggling to support himself and his ailing younger brother. After a series of two-bit hustles an...

Night Comes On
2018
as Danny - Parole Officer
Angel is released from juvenile detention on the eve of her 18th birthday. Haunted by her past, she embarks on a journey with her 10 year-old sister t...

Sacrifice
2015
as Traeger
Four teenagers from a small Texas town come face-to-face with their own consciences after a tragic accident.

Home
2013
as Dr. Parker
The story of a man suffering from mental illness who attempts to rebuild his life.

Sins of the Preacher
2013
as Wade Thompson
After the apparent suicide of her daughter, a woman tries to prove that her son-in-law killed her.

King's Faith
2013
as Mike
After Brendan King's life spiraled to rock bottom, the teen found hope in a new relationship with Christ while serving time in a juvenile penitentiary...

Cass
2013
as Franklin Morris Sr.
Cass is the story of a middle class family in Detroit - a single father, his fifteen-year old daughter and eleven-year old son - whose lives are chang...

You're Nobody 'til Somebody Kills You
2012
as Det. Johnson
A serial killer is taking down the hip hop industry one rapper at a time and the detectives on the case must get to him before the killer does.

Earthwork
2011
as Lone Wolf
In 1994, real-life crop artist Stan Herd traveled from Kansas to Manhattan's Upper West Side to create a massive environmental artwork on land owned b...

Beauty & the Briefcase
2010
as Mr. Belmont
A freelance writer looking for romance sells a story to Cosmopolitan magazine about finding love in the workplace and goes undercover at a Finance Com...

See You in September
2010
as Lewis
Feeling abandoned by her therapist who's gone on an extended vacation, beautiful Lindsay gets help with her fear of commitment from an ad hoc support ...
Bunker Hill
2009
as Marcus Troy
In this unaired TNT TV pilot, a Charlestown native returns to his hometown from serving in Afghanistan to join the Boston Police force like his father...

Killer Hair
2009
as Mac
A fashion reporter stumbles on a murder investigation in the Nation's Capitol, only to be thrown for a loop when her police detective former lover is ...

Hostile Makeover
2009
as Mac
Lacey Smithsonian is a stylish journalist who works as a television reporter. When interviewing a prestigious fashion designer Amanda Manville, it con...
Bunker Hill
2008
as Salem
Peter Salem, a former Wall Street executive recently released from prison, returns to his ex-wife and children in the small town of Bunker Hill, Kansa...
Butterfly Dreaming
2008
as Dr. Baldrica
Anxious dreams, hallucinations, and paranoid reality torment a young math professor in the aftermath of his wife's death in a car accident. As madness...

Living Hell
2008
as Colonel Eric Maitland
In a top secret Cold War military project an unstoppable, malignant organism who feeds on light and energy is unleashed threatening to destroy everyth...

人间炼狱
2008

War Eagle, Arkansas
2007
as Jack, Videostore Manager
Based on a True Story War Eagle, Arkansas is a character-driven drama about a young man’s choice of whether to leave his family and friends for a care...

El Cortez
2006
as Arnie
A man just released from a mental institution gets involved in a gold mine scheme while trying to avoid the cops, a wrathful drug dealer, and a sultry...

Edge of America
2003
as Kenny Williams
From acclaimed director Chris Eyre, whom People Magazine calls "…the preeminent Native American filmmaker of his time", comes this touching and inspir...

Sunshine State
2002
as Reggie Perry
A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estat...

Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story
2000
as Nat 'King' Cole
The true life story of famed singer Natalie Cole, daughter of Nat 'King' Cole. Gripping drama of her struggle with addiction and living in her father'...

Deliberate Intent
2000
as Lawrence Horn
A First Amendment scholar is recruited by an attorney to sue a publishing company after a hit man commits a triple murder by allegedly following a how...

Out of Time
2000
as Jack Epson
A man awakwens after sleeping for 20 years to find that his small local town has changed for the worse.

Silencing Mary
1998
as Professor Thiel
Frustrated that school officials and police won't punish her university's star football player for raping her roommate, student reporter Mary begins w...

The Defenders: Choice of Evils
1998
as Jack Casey
The Defenders are a crack team of lawyers dedicated to one principle - the accused is innocent untill proven guilty. This time, they defend a man wron...

Truth or Consequences, N.M.
1997
as Frank Thompson
Raymond Lembecke is a con just out of prison after serving time for selling drugs for his mob boss Tony Vago. (Lembecke was innocent and took the rap ...

A Deadly Vision
1997
as Dr. Tony Natale
A waitress who has psychic visions of murders before they happen is asked by a police detective to help find a serial killer.

Unforgivable
1996
as Spider
Paul Hegstrom is a so-called family man who puts his wife through domestic violence and his children through emotional torture. After leaving his fami...

The Road to Galveston
1996
as Marcus Roosevelt Sr.
Jordan Roosevelt, at 65, found herself alone, destitute, and depressed. Up against the wall, she took heart from the suggestion of a friend, a blind w...

Scam
1993
as Daniel Poole
A female con-artist who sweet-talks wealthy men targeted by her violent boyfriend, then drugs them and makes off with their money, is being herself be...

Malcolm X
1992
as Brother Earl
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he b...

Strictly Business
1991
as Roland Halloran
Waymon has a great job in real estate and a promising future, but he's also trapped in a loveless longterm relationship. He meets Natalie, a beautiful...

Alice
1990
as Dorothy's Xmas Party Guest
Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for a handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults h...

Murder Times Seven
1990
as Fred
For the third time, Lieutenant Janek is forced to face alone a difficult case, which has some brutal murders that way involving some bigwigs of the un...

Common Ground
1990
as Steve Grace
Fact based story about the racial tensions that occurred in Boston in the 1970's because of court ordered busing to end desegregation. The story focus...

Murder in Black and White
1990
as Fred
A recently appointed black police commissioner is killed. So, Frank Janek is assigned to investigate.

Internal Affairs
1988
as Fred
A skilled police detective in a case involving the strange, sadistic murder of a young prostitute who has been killed in exactly the same fashion as a...

Rocket Gibraltar
1988
as Policeman
A man's family comes for his 77th birthday and while he loves all of his children and their children, he and his children don't exactly connect. Howev...