Jeffrey Warren Daniels (born February 19, 1955) is an American actor, musician and playwright who is best known for playing as Harry Dunne in Dumb and Dumber and its sequel Dumb and Dumber To.
Filmography[]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1981 | Ragtime | P.C. O'Donnell | |
1983 | Terms of Endearment | Flap Horton | |
1985 | The Purple Rose of Cairo | Tom Baxter/Gil Shephard | |
Marie | Eddie Sisk | ||
1986 | Something Wild | Charles Diggs | |
Heartburn | Richard | ||
1987 | Radio Days | Biff Baxter | |
1988 | The House on Carroll Street | Cochran | |
Sweet Hearts Dance | Sam Manners | ||
1989 | Checking Out | Ray Macklin | |
1990 | Arachnophobia | Ross Jennings | |
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael | Denton Webb | ||
1991 | Love Hurts | Paul Weaver | |
The Butcher's Wife | Dr. Alex Tremor | ||
1992 | Timescape | Ben Wilson | Also known as Grand Tour: Disaster in Time |
There Goes the Neighborhood | Willis Embry | ||
1993 | Rain Without Thunder | Jonathan Garson | |
Gettysburg | Colonel Joshua Chamberlain | ||
1994 | Speed | Harry Temple | |
Dumb and Dumber | Harry Dunne | ||
1995 | Redwood Curtain | Lyman Fellers | |
1996 | Fly Away Home | Thomas Alden | |
2 Days in the Valley | Alvin Strayer | ||
101 Dalmations | Roger Dearly | ||
1997 | Trial and Error | Charlie Tuttle | |
1998 | Pleasantville | Bill Johnson | |
1999 | My Favorite Martian | Tim O'Hara | |
It's the Rage | Warren Harding | ||
2000 | Chasing Sleep | Ed Saxon | |
Cheaters | Dr. Gerard Plecki | ||
2001 | Escanaba in da Moonlight | Reuben Soady | Also co-writer and director |
2002 | Super Sucker | Fred Barlow | Also co-writer and director |
The Hours | Louis Waters | ||
2003 | Gods and Generals | Lt. Colonel Joshua Chamberlain | |
I Witness | James Rhodes | ||
2004 | Imaginary Heroes | Ben Travis | |
The Five People You Meet in Heaven | The Blue Man | ||
2005 | The Squid and the Whale | Bernard Berkman | |
Because of Winn-Dixie | The Preacher | ||
Good Night, and Good Luck | Sig Mickelson | ||
2006 | RV | Travis Gornicke | |
Infamous | Alvin Dewey | ||
2007 | The Lookout | Lewis | |
Mama's Boy | Mert Rosenbloom | ||
A Plumm Summer | Narrator | ||
2008 | Space Chimps | Zartog | voice |
Traitor | Carter | ||
2009 | State of Play | Representative George Fergus | |
The Answer Man | Arlen Faber | ||
Away We Go | Jerry Farlander | ||
Paper Man | Richard Dunn | ||
2010 | Howl | Professor David Kirk | |
2012 | Looper | Abe | |
2013 | Quad | Mickey | |
2014 | Dumb and Dumber To | Harry Dunne | |
2015 | Steve Jobs | John Sculley | |
The Martian | Teddy Sanders | ||
2016 | The Divergent Series: Allegiant | David | |
2018 | The Catcher Was a Spy | Bill Donovan | |
2019 | Guest Artist | Joseph Harris | Also writer |
Trivia[]
- On the SNL episode that Jim Carrey hosted on October 25, 2014, the handsome and versatile Jeff Daniels played as a fictional relative of Carrey named Granddaddy Lloyd who is a parody of Lloyd Christmas.