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

Known For: Acting

Born: Athens, Georgia, USA, 1955-02-19

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1981	Ragtime	P.C. O'Donnell	70
2	1982	Fifth of July	Jed Jenkins	70
3	1983	An Invasion of Privacy	Francis Ryan	10
4	1983	Terms of Endearment	Flap Horton	71
5	1985	The Purple Rose of Cairo	Tom Baxter / Gil Shepherd	74
6	1985	Marie: A True Story	Eddie Sisk	56
7	1986	Heartburn	Richard	60
8	1986	Something Wild	Charles Driggs	66
9	1987	Radio Days	Biff Baxter	71
10	1988	The House on Carroll Street	Cochran	58
11	1988	The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial	Lt. Steve Maryk	63
12	1988	Sweet Hearts Dance	Sam Manners	48
13	1988	Checking Out	Ray Macklin	44
14	1989	No Place Like Home	Mike Cooper	65
15	1990	Love Hurts	Paul Weaver	48
16	1990	Arachnophobia	Ross Jennings	64
17	1990	Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael	Denton Webb	62
18	1991	The Butcher's Wife	Dr. Alex Tremor	57
19	1991	America's Classic Ballparks	Narrator	0
20	1992	Timescape	Ben Wilson	65
21	1992	Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story	Tom Noonan	53
22	1992	There Goes the Neighborhood	Willis Embry	54
23	1993	Rain Without Thunder	Jonathan Garson	35
24	1993	Gettysburg	Col. Joshua Chamberlain	69
25	1994	Speed	Harry	71
26	1994	Dumb and Dumber	Harry Dunne	66
27	1995	Redwood Curtain	Lyman Fellers	58
28	1996	2 Days in the Valley	Alvin Strayer	62
29	1996	Fly Away Home	Thomas Alden	69
30	1996	101 Dalmatians	Roger	59
31	1997	Walt Disney World's 25th Anniversary Party	Self	55
32	1997	Trial and Error	Charles Tuttle	54
33	1998	Saturday Night Live: A Tribute to Chris Farley	Self	45
34	1998	Pleasantville	Mr. Johnson	73
35	1999	My Favorite Martian	Tim O'Hara	56
36	1999	It's the Rage	Warren Harding	53
37	2000	The Crossing	Gen. George Washington	62
38	2000	Cheaters	Dr. Gerard Plecki	62
39	2001	Escanaba in da Moonlight	Rueben Soady	59
40	2001	Chasing Sleep	Ed Saxon	60
41	2002	Super Sucker	Fred Barlow	53
42	2002	Blood Work	Jasper 'Buddy' Noone	62
43	2002	The Hours	Louis Waters	73
44	2003	Gods and Generals	Lt. Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain	63
45	2003	I Witness	James Rhodes	55
46	2003	Saturday Night Live: The Best of Chris Farley	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	76
47	2004	Dumb and Dumber - Making Of	Self	0
48	2004	The Goodbye Girl	Elliot Garfield	57
49	2004	Imaginary Heroes	Ben Travis	65
50	2004	Remembering Ragtime	P. C. O'Donnell (archive footage)	0
51	2004	The Five People You Meet In Heaven	Blue Man	70
52	2005	Because of Winn-Dixie	Preacher	64
53	2005	Good Night, and Good Luck.	Sig Mickelson	71
54	2005	The Squid and the Whale	Bernard Berkman	70
55	2006	Still Dumb After All These Years	Self	77
56	2006	RV	Travis Gornicke	59
57	2006	Robin Williams: A Family Affair	Self	0
58	2006	RV Nation: The Culture of Road Warriors	Self	100
59	2006	Barry Sonnenfeld: The Kosher Cowboy	Self	0
60	2006	Infamous	Alvin Dewey	65
61	2007	The Lookout	Lewis	67
62	2007	Mama's Boy	Mert Rosenbloom	45
63	2008	Sweet Nothing in My Ear	Dan Miller	63
64	2008	A Plumm Summer	Narrator	58
65	2008	Space Chimps	Zartog (voice)	49
66	2008	Traitor	Carter	66
67	2009	The Answer Man	Arlen Faber	63
68	2009	State of Play	George Fergus	68
69	2009	Away We Go	Jerry Farlander	67
70	2009	Paper Man	Richard Dunn	63
71	2010	Howl	Professor David Kirk	65
72	2012	Looper	Abe	69
73	2013	James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend	Self	73
74	2014	Dumb and Dumber To	Harry Dunne	56
75	2015	Of Miracles and Men	Self - Narrator	71
76	2015	"That's Awesome!": The Story of 'Dumb and Dumber To'	Self	75
77	2015	The Martian	Theodore "Teddy" Sanders	77
78	2015	Steve Jobs	John Sculley	68
79	2016	Allegiant	David	61
80	2017	Broadway: The Next Generation	Self	100
81	2018	The Russian Five	self	76
82	2018	The Catcher Was a Spy	Bill Donovan	62
83	2018	The Emperor's Newest Clothes	The Emperor	70
84	2019	Guest Artist	Joseph Harris	47
85	2020	Adam	Mickey	65
86	2021	Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age	Self	0
87	2021	9/11: Inside the President's War Room	Narrator	68
88	2023	The Saint of Second Chances	Narrator (voice)	69
89	2023	Bye Bye Barry	Self	79
90	2024	Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story	Self	81
91		Gerald R. Ford: A Test of Character	Narrator	0
92		Blind Logic: The Ralph R. Teetor Story	Ralph Teetor (voice)	0
93		Reykjavik	Ronald Reagan	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Lyman Fellers	86
2	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Neal Forrester	71
3	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Host	70
4	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Cameo (uncredited)	70
5	1979	CBS News Sunday Morning	Self	68
6	1980	A Rumor of War	Chaplain	60
7	1984	MTV Video Music Awards	Self - Presenter	76
8	1987	Trying Times	Jim	65
9	1988	LIVE with Kelly and Mark		56
10	1991	Breakfast with the Arts		50
11	1992	The Tonight Show with Jay Leno		54
12	1992	HBO First Look		49
13	1993	Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Self - Guest	72
14	1993	Frasier	Doug (voice)	77
15	1996	The Daily Show	Self	64
16	1997	The View	Self	45
17	1999	Family Guy	Jeff Daniels (voice)	74
18	2003	Jimmy Kimmel Live!		55
19	2003	The Ellen DeGeneres Show	Self	57
20	2005	The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson	Self	68
21	2005	The Colbert Report	Self	69
22	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self	72
23	2011	Impractical Jokers	Self	79
24	2012	The Newsroom	Will McAvoy	81
25	2014	Off Camera with Sam Jones	Self	40
26	2014	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	Self	59
27	2014	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon		59
28	2014	Variety Studio: Actors on Actors	Self	50
29	2015	ARES: live	Teddy Sanders	43
30	2015	Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter	Self	57
31	2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Self	64
32	2017	Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge	Narrator	72
33	2017	Godless	Frank Griffin	78
34	2018	The Looming Tower	John O'Neill	73
35	2019	The Kelly Clarkson Show	Self	65
36	2020	Washington	Self - Narrator	71
37	2020	Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party	Himself	75
38	2020	The Comey Rule	James Comey	69
39	2021	Hemingway	Ernest Hemingway (voice)	74
40	2021	American Rust	Det. Del Harris	69
41	2023	Shrinking		77
42	2023	The American Buffalo	(voice)	67
43	2024	A Man in Full	Charlie Croker	65

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