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Birthdate: February 19, 1955

Jeff Daniels

ACTOR RANKINGS:

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All-time

of 196,423

258
All-time Actor

of 38,412

154
Decades
- 1980s
  
  of 44,733
  
  426
- 1990s
  
  of 71,584
  
  422
- 2000s
  
  of 82,682
  
  415
Genres
- Action
  
  of 41,607
  
  3,280
- Adventure
  
  of 25,528
  
  291
- Animation
  
  of 1,984
  
  1,620
- Biography
  
  of 11,944
  
  4,096
- Comedy
  
  of 84,814
  
  361
- Crime
  
  of 34,304
  
  522
- Drama
  
  of 107,138
  
  402
- Family
  
  of 15,339
  
  139
- Fantasy
  
  of 17,834
  
  551
- History
  
  of 5,928
  
  43
- Horror
  
  of 36,680
  
  4,496
- Mystery
  
  of 16,953
  
  1,923
- Romance
  
  of 37,234
  
  142
- Scifi
  
  of 24,983
  
  5,247
- Thriller
  
  of 49,528
  
  226
- War
  
  of 9,723
  
  758

CAREER SPAN

Decade

Movie Score

# Movies

1980s

2.3358

1990s

2.6367

2000s

2.6598

Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.

Overall Actor Score: Jeff Daniels is ranked overall as 2.8352 of of 4 stars

2.8352

Jeff Daniels Movie Rankings

Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)

3.3865

In the early 1950's, the threat of Communism created an air of paranoia in the United States and exploiting those fears was Senator 'Joseph McCarthy (II)' (qv) of Wisconsin. However, CBS reporter 'Edward R. Murrow (I)' (qv) and his producer 'Fred W. ...more about Good Night

DVD from $5.17

(16 sellers)

Speed (1994)

3.1833

A city bus is rigged to explode if its speed drops below 50 MPH. It's up to a young bomb squad specialist to save all the people on board. ...more about Speed

DVD from $4.12

(17 sellers)

Lookout, The (2007)

3.1201

Chris (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a promising high school athlete, has a nice future ahead of him until one night he makes the foolish decision to drive into the night with his headlights off. ...more about Lookout

Actor Awards

Satellite Awards - Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Drama

DVD from $4.95

(17 sellers)

Radio Days (1987)

3.0790

Woody Allen's sentimental reminiscence about the golden age of radio. A series of vignettes involving radio personalities is intertwined with the life of a working class family in Rockaway Beach, NY circa 1942. ...more about Radio Days

DVD from $9.99

(12 sellers)

Squid and the Whale, The (2005)

3.0723

The patriarch (Jeff Daniels) of an eccentric Brooklyn family claims to once have been a great novelist, but he has settled into a teaching job. ...more about Squid and the Whale

Actor Awards

Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

DVD from $5.99

(12 sellers)

Hours, The (2002)

3.0562

The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place; all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. ...more about Hours

DVD from $2.10

(16 sellers)

Purple Rose of Cairo, The (1985)

3.0410

Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey during the Depression and is searching for an escape from her dreary life. Tom Baxter is a dashing young archaeologist in the film "The Purple Rose of Cairo. ...more about Purple Rose of Cairo

Actor Awards

Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical

DVD from $5.69

(13 sellers)

Fly Away Home (1996)

3.0022

Amy is only 13 years old when her mother is killed in an auto wreck in New Zealand. She goes to Canada to live with her father, an eccentric inventor whom she barely knows. Amy is miserable in her new life... ...more about Fly Away Home

Actor Awards

Chlotrudis Awards - Best Actor

DVD from $6.15

(9 sellers)

Pleasantville (1998)

2.9921

David, single, lonely and not happy with his life, flees reality by watching Pleasantville - a 1950's b&w soap opera, where everything is just...pleasant. ...more about Pleasantville

Actor Awards

Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical

DVD from $7.97

(12 sellers)

Terms of Endearment (1983)

2.9070

Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. ...more about Terms of Endearment

DVD from $2.10

(14 sellers)

Infamous (2006)

2.8666

Based on the true story of young Truman Capote and his investigation into the 1959 murders of a wealthy Kansas family of four. ...more about Infamous

DVD from $4.99

(14 sellers)

Gettysburg (1993)

2.8383

The four and 1/4 hour depiction of the historical and personal events surrounding and including the decisive American civil war battle features thousands of civil war re-enactors marching over the exact ground that the federal army and the army of North ...more about Gettysburg

DVD from $4.99

(12 sellers)

Blood Work (2002)

2.6974

Retired FBI profiler Terry McCaleb (Eastwood), who has recently had a heart transplant, is hired by Graciela Rivers (De Jesus), to investigate the death of her sister, Gloria, who happens to have given McCaleb his heart. ...more about Blood Work

DVD from $3.79

(13 sellers)

Ragtime (1981)

2.6464

The story runs in the 1910's New York. Coalhouse Walker Jr. is a black man piano player. He has won fame and fortune playing with a jazz band. Some white men do not like this situation, and one day they assault him and spoil his brand new car. ...more about Ragtime

DVD from $3.90

(11 sellers)

Because of Winn-Dixie (2005)

2.6267

A 10-year-old girl, abandoned by her mother when she was three, moves to a small town in Florida with her father, a preacher. While there, she adopts a stray dog whom she names after the local supermarket where he was found. ...more about Because of Winn-Dixie

DVD from $6.42

(18 sellers)

Trial and Error (1997)

2.6054

Lawyer Charles Tuttle is defending his wife's relative Benny Gibbs in a class action fraud suit, but when he gets to the city where court takes place, he gets drunk and the following day, when the hearings begin, his friend, actor Richard Rietti takes ...more about Trial and Error

DVD from $4.99

(12 sellers)

Arachnophobia (1990)

2.5912

A large spider from the jungles of South America is accidently transported in a crate with a dead body to America where it mates with a local spider. ...more about Arachnophobia

Actor Awards

Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Actor

DVD from $9.59

(11 sellers)

101 Dalmatians (1996)

2.5898

Fashion designer Anita and computer-game writer Roger meet, fall in love and marry along with their dalmations Perdita and Pongo. ...more about 101 Dalmatians

Not Available on DVD

Imaginary Heroes (2004)

2.5705

The Travis family fa�ade is destroyed by an event incomprehensible to them -- an event which will open locked doors and finally reveal the secrets that have haunted them for decades. ...more about Imaginary Heroes

DVD from $3.85

(13 sellers)

Something Wild (1986)

2.5455

The uneventful life of business-man Charles Driggs suddenly changes when he meets the wild and sexy Lulu. When he accepts her offer to drive him back to his office, she instead takes him out of town and on a trip, leaving behind his old life. ...more about Something Wild

Actor Awards

Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical

DVD from $9.99

(8 sellers)

Dumb & Dumber (1994)

2.5399

Harry and Lloyd are two brainless losers who try to return a suitcase full of money to its pretty owner. After a journey full of accidents they arrive in snowy Aspen, Colorado and try to find her. ...more about Dumb & Dumber

DVD from $6.90

(10 sellers)

Butcher's Wife, The (1991)

2.5014

A clairvoyant thinks she's met her husband to be because she's seen him in her dreams. They marry quickly, and return to the husband's ("the butcher"), home in the city. ...more about Butcher's Wife

DVD from $4.59

(10 sellers)

RV (2006)

2.2921

An overworked Bob Munro, his wife Jaime, their 15-year-old daughter Cassie and 12-year-old son Carl are in desperate need of some quality time together. ...more about RV

DVD from $8.95

(12 sellers)

Gods and Generals (2003)

2.2466

Gods and Generals, the screen adaptation of Jeff Shaara's heralded best-selling novel and prequel to the acclaimed drama "Gettysburg," is and epic and sweeping portrayal of a nation divided at the start of the Civil War. ...more about Gods and Generals

DVD from $6.71

(11 sellers)

Heartburn (1986)

2.1678

Rachel and Mark are both Washington journalists. They meet at a wedding and not long after they get married themselves. Very soon they have a daughter, Annie. But one day Rachel learns that Mark was having an affair during her pregnancy. ...more about Heartburn

DVD from $3.90

(10 sellers)

All the Rage (1999)

2.0916

Handguns figure in the intertwining lives of nine people. Warren shoots his wife Helen's lover and his defense is that he thought he was shooting an intruder. ...more about All the Rage

DVD from $8.17

(4 sellers)

Super Sucker (2002)

1.9859

DVD from $6.39

(7 sellers)

Chasing Sleep (2000)

1.9052

DVD from $9.10

(8 sellers)

Space Chimps (2008)

1.8472

Space Chimps is an intergalactic comedy that highlights the antics of astronaut chimps with the "wrong stuff. ...more about Space Chimps

Not Available on DVD

My Favorite Martian (1999)

1.7774

News producer Tim O'Hara gets himself fired for unwillingly compromising his bosses' daughter Brace Channing during a live transmission. ...more about My Favorite Martian

DVD from $7.02

(9 sellers)

House on Carroll Street, The (1988)

1.7587

Emily Crane is fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, and takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. ...more about House on Carroll Street

DVD from $5.99

(9 sellers)

Love Hurts (1991)

1.5479

Not Available on DVD

There Goes the Neighborhood (1992)

1.4155

Willis Embry, who is a phsychologist in a jail, was left by his girl-friend. He has no time to be sad about it because an old man, who is very ill, tells him something about a robbery and the millions of dollars hidden somewhere. ...more about There Goes the Neighborhood

Not Available on DVD

Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael (1990)

1.3766

Although Roxy left town more than fifteen years ago, her memory has never faded. Her expected return starts to impact a number of lives, including that of her ex-husband Denton Webb. ...more about Welcome Home

Not Available on DVD

Sweet Hearts Dance (1988)

1.3295

Wiley and Sandra have been happily married for years and are now in the process of breaking up. Sam, his childhood friend, is just beginning to fall in love with a new teacher at the high school. ...more about Sweet Hearts Dance

DVD from $4.99

(3 sellers)

Marie (1985)

1.3149

Not Available on DVD

Rain Without Thunder (1992)

1.1689

Not Available on DVD

Escanaba in da Moonlight (2001)

1.1278

DVD from $6.39

(11 sellers)

Checking Out (1989)

0.8720

Ray is a man obsessed with his own mortality. When Ray's best friend dies of a heart attack, Ray is convinced that all of his aches and pains are an indication of his own imminent death. ...more about Checking Out

DVD from $9.99

(6 sellers)

Mama's Boy (2007)

0.3851

Eccentric Jeffrey Mannus is 29 years old and still lives at home with his mom, Jan. He sees no reason to alter this arrangement, but his perfect world is upended when Jan meets Mert, a motivational speaker. ...more about Mama's Boy

Not Available on DVD

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