John Francis Daley is an actor who is best known for his role as Dr. Lance Sweets on the TV show Bones. For this role, he was nominated for a PRISM Award in 2014.
The actor began his career as “Young Tommy” in the United States and international tours of the Broadway smash The Who’s Tommy.
Daley is best known in the film world for his work with Jonathan Goldstein as a filmmaking team. The two have worked on many projects together.
Jonathan and John said in July 2019 that they were in early talks to direct the remake of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023). They said in January 2020 that they were not only directing the movie, but also writing a new draft of the screenplay.
What Did Lance Sweets On Bones Do?
In the TV show Bones, Dr. Lance Sweets is a fictional character played by John Francis Daley.
Lance was beaten to death while looking for a document that would help Temperance Brennan, a forensic anthropologist, and Seeley Booth, an FBI special agent (David Boreanaz), with a very important case.
In the last few minutes of the first episode of season 10, “The Conspiracy in the Corpse,” Booth gets a distress call from James Aubrey, a junior FBI agent. Booth tells Bones to meet him at a parking garage.
When they get there, Lance is lying on the ground, bleeding from a lot of internal damage.
Aubrey got to the scene of the crime quickly because she heard the shots that Lance fired at his attacker.
Booth and Bones try to save a confused and dying Lance, but he passes away from his wounds as an ambulance arrives in the background.
He told Brennan and Booth, who had become like family to him, his last words. In the episode airing next Thursday at 8 p.m. ET/PT, they will start looking into Sweets’ death.
Why did Bones actor John Francis Daley quit?
John Francis Daley had to leave the show because his character, Dr. Lance Sweets, had died.
Like fans, actors get emotionally attached to the characters they play for a long time, which makes it hard for them to leave them.
John said that, even though he had moved on to other things, he would have loved to go back to Bones after he finished directing National Lampoon’s Vacation.
When Daley went to ask the producers of Bones if he could come back, he didn’t get the answer he was hoping for.
No matter what, Bones wasn’t going to make the case give up his dream job. He said that he had always wanted to be a director, so the chance to direct a big project like National Lampoon’s Vacation was too good to pass up.
A week after he left Bones suddenly, he had been directing the big studio movie for three weeks and said he was having the best time of his life. Daley said that Bones fans understood that he had to leave the show to follow a dream, but he admitted that fans were very sad about the death of Sweets.
Even though he didn’t join the show’s cast until later, he was thrilled that his role as Dr. Lance Sweets had such an impact on viewers.
Where is John Francis Daley now? He played Lance Sweets
After leaving the show as Lance Sweets, John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein wrote the black comedy Horrible Bosses in 2011.
In 2013, they wrote The Incredible Burt Wonderstone together. John also plays an EMT in the movie. DreamWorks Studios hired the two in 2013 to write Call of the Wild.
In 2015, Jonathan and John wrote and directed Vacation, the latest movie in the National Lampoon’s Vacation series.
The two of them worked on the script for Spider-Man: Homecoming with four other screenwriters. The movie was directed by Jon Watts.
Jonathan and John directed the 2018 black comedy Game Night, which was written by Mark Perez. The movie, which starred Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams, got a lot of good reviews and made $117 million worldwide on a budget of only $37 million.
The actor hasn’t said where he lives now, but it looks like he’s happy and having a good time.
Early years
Daley was born in Wheeling, Illinois, which is a suburb of Chicago. His parents, R.F. Daley, an actor, and Nancy Daley, a piano teacher, raised him there. His mother is Jewish and his father is from an Irish Catholic family. He grew up in Nyack, New York, where he played Danny in the production of Grease at Nyack Middle School.
The story of John Francis Daley
John Francis Daley started acting when he played the young version of Tommy in a national and international tour of The Who’s Tommy. He became well-known to people all over the country when he starred in the critically acclaimed cult classic series Freaks and Geeks (1999). John used to be a regular on the Fox hit Bones (2005). He can also be seen in the Lions Gate comedy Waiting and the upcoming film Rapture-Palooza (2013) with Anna Kendrick and Craig Robinson.
Now, he has a successful career as a screenwriter. He and his writing partner, Jonathan Goldstein, have sold several scripts in the past three years, including the summer hit Horrible Bosses (2011).
John is an actor and screenwriter, but he is also a musician. In his band, Dayplayer, he plays the keyboard and sings lead vocals. They will soon put out their first CD.
Corinne Kingsbury, his wife (since February 2016) (1 child)
John’s father is the actor R.F. Daley, who has been in many Broadway and regional theater shows and has also been on TV.
Several times tried out for the Broadway show “Les Miserables,” but he was never tall enough to play Gavroche. When he was big enough, he was no longer interested.
When John was a guest star on Boston Public in 2000, his Broadway-experienced real-life father, R.F. Daley, played his TV father.
Nancy Daley, who is John’s mother, is a good musician, singer, and teacher.
He played Danny in a “Grease” school play at Nyack Middle School.
Was from Nyack, New York
He had his first “unemployment” when he decided not to work on a pilot in 2006 because the producers didn’t pay him what he was quoted. This gave him credibility as a bankable TV personality.
Met his co-writer Jonathan Goldstein because Daley’s girlfriend is friends with Goldstein’s wife.
In Bones (2005), he played Dr. Lance Sweets for a long time. In Vacation (2015), he and his friend Jonathan Goldstein made their first film as directors.
Before they got married in 2016, he dated writer Corinne Kingsbury for three years. In 2017, they had a son who they named Basil Daley.
In 2013, I met author Corinne Kingsbury. In 2016, they got married. Basil was born to them early in 2017.
Almost choked on his food while filming a scene for Freaks and Geeks because he laughed so hard when Samm Levine said one of his lines that he had his mouth full. In the “Chokin’ and Tokin’” episode, this happens in the cafeteria where Bill finds the peanut sandwich.
John and his Freaks and Geeks co-star Samm Levine have the same sense of humor, so Samm would make John laugh at things his character said by saying the line in a way that would make John laugh, even if the line wasn’t supposed to be funny, which was usually the case. During the show, this happens a few times, and all of those times are in the show.
Personal Quotes
In some ways, writing gives you more creative freedom because you can make everything happen. But as an actor, you also have creative freedom because you don’t have to worry as much about what needs to happen in the story and more about how your character reacts to things.
As an actor, you don’t always have the freedom to change your lines, which can make them sound very unnatural or hard to act in a real way.
All of the boys my age love Jim Carrey. But, you know, just being in his house with him and telling him jokes that he would act out was like a dream, so it was great.
Ever since I could write as a child, I was interested in writing screenplays. I started out as a professional actor, but screenwriting has always been something I’ve been very interested in.
I’ve been writing since I was seven years old. I remember putting on plays in the dank, horrible basement of my house with people who didn’t really want to be there. I would promise kids from the neighborhood that I would play Nintendo 64 with them after we practiced this stupid play I wrote.
I don’t want an assistant because if I did, I’d have to be a bad boss. As a 25-year-old, I just can’t find a reason to have an assistant.
I’ve always been the kind of person who tells friends that if they’re having a hard time, they can always talk to me.
When you see both sides of the entertainment world, you really get a better idea of how it all works. I was an actor before I started writing screenplays, so I knew what natural dialogue sounds like and what an actor could actually say.
As a half-Jewish screenwriter, I tend to see the glass as half empty.