# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-francis-daley
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:45:44.733Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-francis-daley"
name: "John Francis Daley"
slug: "john-francis-daley"
description: "John Francis Daley 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."
tagline: "American actor and director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Francis_Daley_in_March_2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1985-07-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.97223866666667
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump