John Francis Daley
John Francis Daley was born in Wheeling, Illinois, United States on July 20th, 1985 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 39, John Francis Daley biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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John Francis Daley (born July 20, 1985) is an American actor, screenwriter, comedian and film director.
He is 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.In cinema, Daley is known for his collaborative work with Jonathan Goldstein as a film-making duo.
The pair have worked on various projects together.
Daley and Goldstein's first work together was initially based in comedy where they were co-screenwriters for Horrible Bosses (2011), co-writers for The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013), co-story writers for Horrible Bosses 2 (2014), and co-wrote/co-directed the fifth film in the National Lampoon's Vacation film series, Vacation (2015).
The duo were co-story 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.
Early life
Daley was born in the Chicago suburb of Wheeling, Illinois, to R.F. Daley, an actor, and Nancy Daley, a piano teacher. His father is of Irish Catholic background, while his mother is Jewish. He grew up in Nyack, New York, where he played Danny in Nyack Middle School's production of Grease.
Career
In the United States and international tours of the Broadway classic The Who's Tommy, Daley began acting as "Young Tommy." He played Sam Weir, the protagonist of Freaks and Geeks, on television and since then he has appeared in television shows including The Geena Davis Show, Boston Public, Regular Joe, Judging Amy, and Spin City. He ranked #94 on VH1's 100 Greatest Teen Stars.
What Babies Do in 2001, he co-directed a short film titled What Babies Do. In addition, he wrote and appeared in the comedy short Friday Night. He appeared in Waiting... and in the Fox sitcom Kitchen Confidential in 2005. Daley, a psychologist, appeared in the Fox drama series Bones in 2007, portraying psychologist Lance Sweets. With his writing partner Jonathan Goldstein, he co-wrote the season six episode "The Truth in the Myth." Sweets was ultimately cut short in the season ten premiere, according to Bones executive producer Stephen Nathan, who was afraid that Daley's absence would be too long, particularly if the directing role led to other occupations.
Daley was also included in Abandoned Pools' "Mercy Kiss" music video.
The black comedy Horrible Bosses was written by Daley and his writing partner Jonathan M. Goldstein in 2011. Daley co-wrote The Incredible Burt Wonderstone with Goldstein in 2013; Daley also appeared in the film as a paramedic. In 2013, the two were recruited to write Call of the Wild for DreamWorks Studios. In Rapture-Palooza, John is the protagonist. Daley went on to write the story for the sequel to Horrible Bosses.
The 2015 film Vacation, starring Ed Helms and Christina Applegate, was co-written and co-directed by Daley and Goldstein.
The screenplay for the 2017 film Spider-Man: Homecoming was written by Daley and Goldstein, who were both expected to direct before Jon Watts was hired.
The 2018 black comedy Game Night, based on a screenplay by Mark Perez, was directed by Daley and Goldstein. "The film, starring Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams, received a slew of rave reviews for its whip-smart script, energetic performances, and deliberate avoidance of modern comedy's ubiquitous tropes," according to a $37 million budget. Although Daley and Goldstein did not receive screenwriter credit, they later wrote "fully updated the script's dialogue, most notably a scary cop portrayed by Jesse Plemons) and completely reworked the original script's third act.
In 2018, it was revealed that the pair was supposed to direct a film adaptation of DC Comics' The Flash for their DC Extended Universe, but that it was cancelled in July. Despite this, both Daley and Goldstein received honors for their contribution to the film's screenwriter, Christina Hodson.
In July 2019, Goldstein and Daley were in early talks to order the restoration of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023). Goldstein and Daley, who were also writing a new draft of the screenplay, had been confirmed in January 2020.