The speech went viral, but Daniels had been just as stirring two decades earlier, as a Union officer in the 1993 film, "Gettysburg": Col. Joshua Chamberlain (Daniels): "We are an army out to set other men free. America should be free ground. All of it." (Gettysburg 1993) Colonel Ch...
Daniels quickly gained a reputation as a versatile actor, in films such as "The Purple Rose of Cairo," "Something Wild" and "Gettysburg," but nothing prepared audiences for his performance, in 1994, in the surprise blockbuster, "Dumb and Dumber." "That's gonna be the first clip that pla...
Later repeating his part as Lt. Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain from Gettysburg, Daniels at the end of the day did a reversal in time for the Civil War show “Gods and Generals” (2002). In 2004 he showed up in the adjustment of kindred Michigander Mitch Albom’s blockbuster “The Five...