James McDaniel

James McDaniel

1958-03-25 Washington, D.C., USA 40 Credits

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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Lapsis

Lapsis

2021

as Felix

6.2
Acting

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

Night Comes On

2018

as Danny - Parole Officer

6.1
Acting

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

Sacrifice

2015

as Traeger

4.1
Acting

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

Home

Home

2013

as Dr. Parker

6.6
Acting

The story of a man suffering from mental illness who attempts to rebuild his life.

Sins of the Preacher

Sins of the Preacher

2013

as Wade Thompson

5.3
Acting

After the apparent suicide of her daughter, a woman tries to prove that her son-in-law killed her.

King's Faith

King's Faith

2013

as Mike

6.9
Acting

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

Cass

2013

as Franklin Morris Sr.

10.0
Acting

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

You're Nobody 'til Somebody Kills You

2012

as Det. Johnson

4.6
Acting

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

Earthwork

2011

as Lone Wolf

10.0
Acting

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

Beauty & the Briefcase

2010

as Mr. Belmont

5.9
Acting

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

See You in September

2010

as Lewis

4.2
Acting

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

Acting

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

Killer Hair

2009

as Mac

7.8
Acting

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

Hostile Makeover

2009

as Mac

7.8
Acting

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

Acting

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

5.0
Acting

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

Living Hell

2008

as Colonel Eric Maitland

5.3
Acting

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

人间炼狱

2008

Acting
War Eagle, Arkansas

War Eagle, Arkansas

2007

as Jack, Videostore Manager

8.0
Acting

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

El Cortez

2006

as Arnie

5.6
Acting

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

Edge of America

2003

as Kenny Williams

5.9
Acting

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

Sunshine State

Sunshine State

2002

as Reggie Perry

6.4
Acting

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

Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story

2000

as Nat 'King' Cole

7.0
Acting

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

Deliberate Intent

2000

as Lawrence Horn

4.5
Acting

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

Out of Time

2000

as Jack Epson

4.9
Acting

A man awakwens after sleeping for 20 years to find that his small local town has changed for the worse.

Silencing Mary

Silencing Mary

1998

as Professor Thiel

4.5
Acting

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

The Defenders: Choice of Evils

1998

as Jack Casey

3.4
Acting

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.

Truth or Consequences, N.M.

1997

as Frank Thompson

6.1
Acting

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

A Deadly Vision

1997

as Dr. Tony Natale

4.5
Acting

A waitress who has psychic visions of murders before they happen is asked by a police detective to help find a serial killer.

Unforgivable

Unforgivable

1996

as Spider

6.3
Acting

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

The Road to Galveston

1996

as Marcus Roosevelt Sr.

3.0
Acting

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

Scam

1993

as Daniel Poole

6.1
Acting

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

Malcolm X

1992

as Brother Earl

7.5
Acting

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

Strictly Business

1991

as Roland Halloran

5.5
Acting

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

Alice

1990

as Dorothy's Xmas Party Guest

6.4
Acting

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

Murder Times Seven

1990

as Fred

Acting

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

Common Ground

1990

as Steve Grace

10.0
Acting

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

Murder in Black and White

1990

as Fred

Acting

A recently appointed black police commissioner is killed. So, Frank Janek is assigned to investigate.

Internal Affairs

Internal Affairs

1988

as Fred

7.0
Acting

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

Rocket Gibraltar

1988

as Policeman

5.9
Acting

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...