Jeff Daniels
Jeff Daniels
Biography
Jeffrey Warren "Jeff" Daniels (born February 19, 1955) is an American actor, musician and playwright. He founded a non-profit theatre company, the Purple Rose Theatre Company, in his home state of Michigan. He has performed in a number of stage productions, both on and off Broadway. He has been nominated for the Tony Award as Best Actor for the Broadway play God of Carnage (2009), along with his other three cast-mates. He has had a thriving film career, from his debut in 1981 in Ragtime, through State of Play in 2009. For his film work, he has received three Golden Globe Award nominations, including as Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical for Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) (hence the name of his theatre company). He has also received nominations by the Screen Actors Guild, Satellite Awards, and several for his work in The Squid and the Whale (London Critics Circle Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, Chlotrudis Awards and Gotham Awards). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeff Daniels, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Actor
as Narrator
as Ralph Teetor (voice)
as U.S. President Ronald Reagan
as Ronald Reagan
as Charlie Croker
as Self
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as Ernest Hemingway (voice)
as Mickey
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as Joseph Harris
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as The Emperor
as Bill Donovan
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as Frank Griffin
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as John Sculley
as Teddy Sanders
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as Harry Dunne
as Self
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as Abe
as Will McAvoy
as Self
as Professor David Kirk
as Richard Dunn
as Jerry Farlander
as George Fergus
as Arlen Faber
as Carter
as Zartog (voice)
as Narrator
as Dan Miller
as Mert Rosenbloom
as Lewis
as Self
as Alvin Dewey
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as Travis Gornicke
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as Bernard Berkman
as Sig Mickelson
as Preacher
as Self
as Blue Man
as P. C. O'Donnell (archive footage)
as Ben Travis
as Elliot Garfield
as Self
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as James Rhodes
as Lt. Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
as Self
as Louis Waters
as Jasper 'Buddy' Noone
as Fred Barlow
as Ed Saxon
as Rueben Soady
as Dr. Gerard Plecki
as Gen. George Washington
as Warren Harding
as Tim O'Hara
as Jeff Daniels (voice)
as Mr. Johnson
as Charles Tuttle
as Self
as Roger
as Thomas Alden
as Alvin Strayer
as Self
as Lyman Fellers
as Harry Dunne
as Harry
as Col. Joshua Chamberlain
as Jonathan Garson
as Doug (voice)
as Self - Guest
as Willis Embry
as Tom Noonan
as Ben Wilson
as Narrator
as Dr. Alex Tremor
as Denton Webb
as Ross Jennings
as Paul Weaver
as Mike Cooper
as Ray Macklin
as Sam Manners
as Lt. Steve Maryk
as Cochran
as Biff Baxter
as Jim
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as Richard
as Eddie Sisk
as Tom Baxter / Gil Shepherd
as Self - Presenter
as Flap Horton
as Francis Ryan
as Jed Jenkins
as P.C. O'Donnell
as Chaplain
as Self
as Self - Host
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
as Neal Forrester
as Lyman Fellers
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Writer
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