Cast & creator
James McDaniel
Best known for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order, The View
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.
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film credits
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television credits
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1981–2022 · acting roles
6.6
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (77)
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Javier Vega
1999
Law & Order
Michael Ingrams
1990
The View
Self
1997
Stargate SG-1
General Francis Maynard
1997
The Good Wife
Detective Lou Johnson
2009
Numb3rs
Phillip Wright
2005
Las Vegas
Gavin Brunson
2003
NYPD Blue
Arthur Fancy
1993NYPD Blue
Director
1993
Orange Is the New Black
Jean Baptiste
2013
Madam Secretary
Roger Baylis
2014
Hill Street Blues
1981
NCIS: New Orleans
Papa Parks
2014
New Amsterdam
Horace Reynolds
2018
The Division
Brian Lawrence
2001
Sleepy Hollow
Ezra Mills
2013
The Following
Agent Ken Phillips
2013
The Night Shift
Dr. Julian Cummings
2014
Forever
Al Rainey
2014
John Doe
Colonel Dunagan
2002
Alaska Daily
Raymond Green
2022
Civil Wars
Malik Watson
1991
Conviction
Tony Murno
2006
Whiskey Cavalier
Director of FBI New York Office
2019
Fantasy Island
Louis Burton
1998
Life As We Know It
William Miller
2004
The Blacklist: Redemption
Dan Bishop
2017
Detroit 1-8-7
Sgt. Jesse Longford
2010
Soundtrack
Moses
2019
Cop Rock
Officer Franklin Rose
1990
Alex Haley's Queen
1993
Malcolm X
Brother Earl
1992
C-16: FBI
Director
1997
Love Monkey
Derrick Cooper
2006
Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television
Captain Jackson
2017
Alice
Dorothy's Xmas Party Guest
1990Almost There
Dr. Ira Frank
2016
Truth or Consequences, N.M.
Frank Thompson
1997
King's Faith
Mike
2013
The Old Man and the Sea
1990
Scam
Daniel Poole
1993
Lapsis
Felix
2021
Beauty & the Briefcase
Mr. Belmont
2010
Strictly Business
Roland Halloran
1991
Living Hell
Colonel Eric Maitland
2008
Rocket Gibraltar
Policeman
1988
See You in September
Lewis
2010
Earthwork
Lone Wolf
2011
Home
Dr. Parker
2013
The Defenders: Choice of Evils
Jack Casey
1998
The Road to Galveston
Marcus Roosevelt Sr.
1996
Sins of the Preacher
Wade Thompson
2013
You're Nobody 'til Somebody Kills You
Det. Johnson
2012
Common Ground
Steve Grace
1990Butterfly Dreaming
Dr. Baldrica
2008
War Eagle, Arkansas
Jack, Videostore Manager
2007
Murder in Black and White
Fred
1990
Sunshine State
Reggie Perry
2002
Night Comes On
Danny - Parole Officer
2018
A Deadly Vision
Dr. Tony Natale
1997
Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story
Nat 'King' Cole
2000
Out of Time
Jack Epson
2000
Killer Hair
Mac
2009
Silencing Mary
Professor Thiel
1998
Murder Times Seven
Fred
1990
Unforgivable
Spider
1996
El Cortez
Arnie
2006
人间炼狱
2008
Hostile Makeover
Mac
2009
Internal Affairs
Fred
1988
Edge of America
Kenny Williams
2003
Sacrifice
Traeger
2015
Deliberate Intent
Lawrence Horn
2000
Bunker Hill
Salem
2008Bunker Hill
Executive Producer
2008Bunker Hill
Marcus Troy
2009Cass
Franklin Morris Sr.
2013