Jeff Daniels
Year Title Role Notes
1980 Hawaii Five-O Neal Forrester Episode : The Flight of the Jewels
1980 A Rumor of War Chaplain 2 episodes
1980 Breaking Away College Kid Episode : Pilot
1982 Catalina C-Lab Rick Guthrie Television film
1982 American Playhouse Jed Jenkins Episode : The Fifth of July
1983 An Invasion of Privacy Francis Ryan Television film
1988 The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial Lt. Stephen Maryk Television film
1988 Tanner 88 Park Ranger Episode : The Girlfriend Factor
1989 No Place Like Home Mike Cooper Television film
1991 Saturday Night Live Himself ( host ) Episode : Jeff Daniels/ Color Me Badd
1992 Teamster Boss : The Jackie Presser Story Tom Noonan Television film
1993 Frasier Doug Voice Episode : Here 's Looking at You
1995 Saturday Night Live Himself ( host ) Episode : Jeff Daniels/ Luscious Jackson
2000 The Crossing George Washington Television film
2000 Cheaters Dr. Gerard Plecki Television film
2004 The Goodbye Girl Elliot Garfield Television film
2008 Sweet Nothing in My Ear Dan Miller Television film
2012-2014 The Newsroom Will McAvoy 25 episodes
2017 Godless Frank Griffin 7 episodes
2018 The Looming Tower John ONeill 10 episodes
Filmography -- Television
Jeffrey Warren Daniels (born February 19, 1955)[citation needed] is an American actor, musician, and playwright whose career includes roles in films, stage productions, and television, for which he has won two Emmy Awards and received several Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and Tony Award nominations. He made his film debut in Ragtime (1981), and amassed such additional credits as Terms of Endearment (1983), Arachnophobia (1990), Gettysburg (1993), Speed (1994), 101 Dalmatians (1996), Fly Away Home (1996), Pleasantville (1998), The Hours (2002), Gods and Generals (2003), Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), Infamous (2006), The Lookout (2007), Looper (2012), Steve Jobs (2015), and The Martian (2015). Daniels is also known for playing Harry Dunne in the buddy comedy Dumb and Dumber (1994) and its sequel Dumb and Dumber To (2014). He received Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actor for his performances in The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Something Wild (1986), and The Squid and the Whale (2005). Daniels has also received a number of award nominations for his work on stage, including Tony Award nominations for Best Actor for his roles in the plays God of Carnage, Blackbird and To Kill a Mockingbird. He is the founder and current executive director of the Chelsea, Michigan-based Purple Rose Theatre Company. From 2012 to 2014, Daniels starred as Will McAvoy in the HBO political drama series The Newsroom, for which he won the 2013 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and received Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. He won a second Primetime Emmy Award in 2018 for his supporting performance in the Netflix miniseries Godless (2017) and an additional nomination that year for his leading performance as John P. O'Neill in the Hulu miniseries The Looming Tower (2018).