John Francis Daley

John Francis Daley

John Francis Daley (born July 20, 1985) is an American filmmaker and actor. 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 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-writing 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 and the 2023 fantasy Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves.

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John Francis Daley Movies

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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)

Adventure Comedy Fantasy
A silver-tongued thief assembles the kind of crew that looks better on paper than in practice, recruiting a sorcerer, a druid, and a paladin with questionable combat instincts for a...
Score 7.3
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Game Night (2018)

Comedy Crime Mystery
Max and Annie host a weekly game night with their competitive friends, but things escalate sharply when Max's slick older brother Brooks organizes an elaborate murder mystery event with hired...
Score 6.8
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Vacation (2015)

Adventure Comedy
Rusty Griswold is now a dad himself, and convinced that a pilgrimage to Walley World will fix everything his family is quietly falling apart over. He packs his wife and...
Score 6.3

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Freaks and Geeks (1999)

Comedy Drama
Lindsay Weir trades her mathlete jacket for a spot on the bleachers with the school burnouts, drawn to a group that sees the world a little sideways. Meanwhile her younger...
Score 8.2

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