John Francis Daley (born July 20, 1985) is an American actor, filmmaker, and musician. 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 best 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-writers for
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.
