
James McDaniel
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 Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, NYPD Blue, and won the 2006 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in a Children/Youth/Family Special, "Edge of America". McDaniel was in the same acting company at SUNY Purchase with actor Jay O. Sanders. Description above from the Wikipedia article James McDaniel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Appearances

El Cortez
as Arnie
2006

Living Hell
as Colonel Eric Maitland
2008

Alice
as Dorothy's Xmas Party Guest
1990

War Eagle, Arkansas
as Jack, Videostore Manager
2007

See You in September
as Lewis
2010
Butterfly Dreaming
as Dr. Baldrica
2008

Sunshine State
as Reggie Perry
2002

Rocket Gibraltar
as Policeman
1988

Home
as Dr. Parker
2013

Edge of America
as Kenny Williams
2003

Hostile Makeover
as Mac
2009

You're Nobody 'til Somebody Kills You
as Det. Johnson
2012

Scam
as Daniel Poole
1993

King's Faith
as Mike
2013
Cass
as Franklin Morris Sr.
2013

Killer Hair
as Mac
2009

The Road to Galveston
as Marcus Roosevelt Sr.
1996

Silencing Mary
as Professor Thiel
1998

Common Ground
as Steve Grace
1990

Internal Affairs
as Fred
1988
TV Appearances

Law & Order
as Michael Ingrams
1990

Numb3rs
as Phillip Wright
2005

John Doe
as Colonel Dunagan
2002

The Division
as Brian Lawrence
2001

Las Vegas
as Gavin Brunson
2003

The View
as Self
1997

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Javier Vega
1999

Hill Street Blues
1981

Life As We Know It
as William Miller
2004

Stargate SG-1
as General Francis Maynard
1997

Orange Is the New Black
as Jean Baptiste
2013

Cop Rock
as Officer Franklin Rose
1990