Life and work
Jeff Daniels is an American actor, musician and playwright. Born: 19 February 1955. Citizenship recorded in the biographical source: United States.
Actor · 1955–
Jeff Daniels
Jeff Daniels is an American actor, musician and playwright. Born on 19 February 1955, this profile follows Jeff Daniels through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include Speed (1994) and Pleasantville (1998). The location trail reaches Gas Company Tower, Los Angeles City Hall and TCL Chinese Theatre. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.
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Speed · Gas Company Tower
Jeff Daniels is credited as cast member on Speed. The work’s existing location story leads to Gas Company Tower. The Gas Company Tower supplies the building for the opening elevator crisis. Its public frontage is a useful starting point; the stunt interiors are not a visitor attraction.
Pleasantville · Malibu Creek State Park
Jeff Daniels is credited as cast member on Pleasantville. The work’s existing location story leads to Malibu Creek State Park. The park is documented among the film’s outdoor locations.
THE PLACES BEHIND THE STORY
A life on the map.
Explore 4 connections. Each connection links to its evidence; outlined circles mark approximate areas, not exact buildings or camera positions.
Los Angeles City Hall ↗︎
Filming location · the award ceremony
City Hall appears in the ceremony following the first rescue. This brief pause gives the city a public face between the film’s larger action sequences.
200 N Spring Street
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Filming location · Hollywood finale
The Chinese Theatre identifies the Hollywood setting of the climax. View the frontage from pedestrian areas; the film’s train stunt does not describe a real operating route.
6925 Hollywood Boulevard
Open street map ↗︎Malibu Creek State Park ↗︎
1925 Las Virgenes Road
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Filming location · opening tower
The Gas Company Tower supplies the building for the opening elevator crisis. Its public frontage is a useful starting point; the stunt interiors are not a visitor attraction.
555 W 5th Street, Los Angeles
Open street map ↗︎IN THE STORY1955-02-19
Born 19 February 1955
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WORKS
Culture, connected.
Follow the work through its real places.
Speed ↗︎
Jan de Bont
Pleasantville
Gary Ross
KEEP EXPLORING
Cities and Worlds.
Los Angeles ↗︎
Follow a scene into the hills. A song onto the Strip. A story all the way to the ocean.
Speed ↗︎
Atlas: turn the pages of a 1993 street atlas as the bus’s route runs off each one and carries on miles away, from a Venice corner to an unopened freeway to a desert airport off the last page; run the two takes of the jump and close a gap that was never there, then run the unfinished Red Line on to where the film’s train came up six years early.
PEOPLE IN THE STORY
Creative connections.
Follow collaborators through their work and the real places tied to it.
Keanu Reeves ↗︎
Keanu Reeves is a Canadian actor and musician. Born on 2 September 1964, this profile follows Keanu Reeves through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include Point Break (1991), Speed (1994), Constantine (2005) and John Wick: Chapter 4 — Berlin (2023). The location trail reaches Leo Carrillo State Park, Neptune’s Net and Dockweiler State Beach, with existing stories in Berlin. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.
Sandra Bullock ↗︎
Sandra Bullock is an American actress and film producer. Born on 26 July 1964, this profile follows Sandra Bullock through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include Demolition Man (1993), Speed (1994) and While You Were Sleeping (1995). The location trail reaches Second Street Tunnel, Gas Company Tower and Los Angeles City Hall, with existing stories in Chicago. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.
Reese Witherspoon ↗︎
Reese Witherspoon is an American actress. Born on 22 March 1976, this profile follows Reese Witherspoon through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include Pleasantville (1998), Legally Blonde (2001) and Gone Girl (2014). The location trail reaches Malibu Creek State Park, University of Southern California and California Institute of Technology. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.
Paul Walker ↗︎
Paul Walker was an American actor. Born on 12 September 1973, this profile follows Paul Walker through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include Pleasantville (1998), She’s All That (1999) and The Fast and the Furious (2001). The location trail reaches Malibu Creek State Park, Torrance High School and Leo Carrillo State Park. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.
Steven Soderbergh ↗︎
Steven Soderbergh is an American filmmaker. Born on 14 January 1963, this profile follows Steven Soderbergh through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include Pleasantville (1998) and Ocean’s Eleven (2001). The location trail reaches Malibu Creek State Park and Musso & Frank Grill. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.
Richard Schiff ↗︎
Richard Schiff is an American actor. Born on 27 May 1955, this profile follows Richard Schiff through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include The Bodyguard (1992), Speed (1994), Se7en (1995) and Volcano (1997). The location trail reaches Greystone Mansion, Hollywood Pantages Theatre and Gas Company Tower. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.