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. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Francis Daley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2026Mayday — LSO, Writer, Director, Producer
• Hysteria! — Executive Producer
• 2023Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves — Special Creature Voice (voice), Executive Producer, Songs, Director, Screenplay
• 2023The Flash — Screenstory
• 2023Vacation Friends 2 — Characters
• 2021Vacation Friends — Writer
• 2021Welcome to Georgia — Executive Producer, Screenplay
• In the Dark — Director, Consulting Producer
• 2019Stuber — Producer
• 2018Game Night — Carter, Director
• 2017Spider-Man: Homecoming — Screenstory, Screenplay
• 2016Bottom's Butte — Scott/Cabana Boy
• 2015Dude Bro Party Massacre III — Ernest
• Fresh Off the Boat — Jordan
• 2015Vacation — Ride Operator, Writer, Director, Songs
• 2014Horrible Bosses 2 — Story
• 2013Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 — Screenplay
• Drunk History — James J. Andrews
• 2013Rapture-Palooza — Ben House
• 2013The Incredible Burt Wonderstone — Paramedic 1, Screenplay, Story
• The Finder — Lance Sweets
• 2011Audio Tour — Director, Screenplay
• 2011Horrible Bosses — Carter, Screenplay
• 20085-25-77 — Pat Johnson
• Clark and Michael — Tom
• Yo Gabba Gabba!
• Bones — Lance Sweets, Writer
• Kitchen Confidential — Jim
• 2005Waiting... — Mitch
• Regular Joe — Grant Binder
• 2003View from the Top — Rodney
• The Ellen Show — Erik
• 2001What Babies Do — Director
• Boston Public — Anthony Ward
• The Geena Davis Show — Carter Ryan
• Freaks and Geeks — Sam Weir, Songs
• Judging Amy — Jace Crosby
• Spin City — Spencer
• Care Bears — Producer
• Diya — Producer
• Monopoly — Screenplay
• Renegades — Director, Producer
• Untitled Star Trek Film — Director, Screenplay, Producer

Appearances as themselves (2)

• Cultureshock — Self
• 2018Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary — Self