# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-mcdaniel
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:14:30.972Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-mcdaniel"
name: "James McDaniel"
slug: "james-mcdaniel"
description: "James McDaniel Jr. is an American stage, film and television actor. He is best known for playing Lt. Arthur Fancy on the television show NYPD Blue. He played the role of Paul in the hit Lincoln Center play Six Degrees of Separation. He played a police officer in the ill-fated 1990 series Cop Rock, and a close advisor to the director Spike Lee regarding the activist Malcolm X in the 1992 film Malcolm X. He also played Sgt. Jesse Longford in the ABC television series Detroit 1-8-7."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_McDaniel_2006-06-05_001.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1958-03-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.83
  momentum:             0.2230017539463793
  historical:           11.74688
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005206/"
    handle:    "nm0005206"
sources:
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    title: "جیمز میک ڈینیئل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James McDaniel"
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    title: "جيمس مكدانيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جیمز دانیل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McDaniel"
    title: "James McDaniel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McDaniel"
    title: "James McDaniel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McDaniel"
    title: "James McDaniel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%84"
    title: "جیمز دانیل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McDaniel"
    title: "James McDaniel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McDaniel"
    title: "James McDaniel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A0%9C%EC%9E%84%EC%8A%A4_%EB%A7%A5%EB%8C%80%EB%8B%88%EC%96%BC"
    title: "제임스 맥대니얼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McDaniel"
    title: "James McDaniel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%8F%D0%B5%D1%98%D0%BC%D1%81_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B5%D0%BB"
    title: "Џејмс Мекданијел"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1059226"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/81372"
    title: "James McDaniel"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump