James McDaniel

Biography

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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.

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Known For

El Cortez

Living Hell

War Eagle, Arkansas

See You in September

Sunshine State

Home

Edge of America

Filmography

2022 Alaska Daily

as Raymond Green

2021 Lapsis

as Felix

2019 Soundtrack

as Moses

2019 Whiskey Cavalier

as Director of FBI New York Office

2018 New Amsterdam

as Horace Reynolds

2018 Night Comes On

as Danny - Parole Officer

2017 Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television

as Captain Jackson

2017 The Blacklist: Redemption

as Dan Bishop

2016 Almost There

as Dr. Ira Frank

2015 Sacrifice

as Traeger

2014 NCIS: New Orleans

as Papa Parks

2014 Forever

as Al Rainey

2014 Madam Secretary

as Air Force General Roger Baylis

2014 The Night Shift

as Dr. Julian Cummings

2013 Home

as Dr. Parker

2013 Sleepy Hollow

as Ezra Mills

2013 Sins of the Preacher

as Wade Thompson

2013 Orange Is the New Black

as Jean Baptiste

2013 King's Faith

as Mike

2013 Cass

as Franklin Morris Sr.