VideoDetective.com

D.B. Sweeney

D.B. Sweeney
D.B. Sweeney
Born: Nov 14, 1961 in Shoreham, Long Island, New York
Occupation: Actor, Writer, Director,
Active: '80s-2000s
Major Genres: Drama, Comedy Drama
Career Highlights: Gardens of Stone, Eight Men Out, Dinosaur
First Major Screen Credit: Gardens of Stone (1987)
24 Videos for D.B. Sweeney
Miracle at St. Anna (2008) Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999) Heaven Is a Playground (1991)
Stiletto (2008) The Book of Stars (1999) Leather Jackets (1990)
Two Tickets to Paradise (2008) Spawn (1997) Memphis Belle (1990)
Yellow (2006) Hear No Evil (1993) Lonesome Dove (1989)
Speak (2003) Miss Rose White (1992) Eight Men Out (1988)
SuperFire (2002) The Cutting Edge (1992) Gardens of Stone (1987)
Greenmail (2001) Blue Desert (1991) No Man's Land (1987)
Hardball (2001) En Dag I Oktober (1991) Power (1986)
Photos


There are currently no photos.

Biography:

Empire State native D.B. Sweeney attended both Tulane and New York University. Though he had trouble getting sizeable roles in student productions, upon his graduation he was immediately cast in the Broadway revival of {+The Caine Mutiny Court Martial}. He went on to guest-star stints on such TV series as The Edge of Night and Spencer: For Hire before entering movies, where he scored with the critics for his portrayal of an idealistic, gung-ho Vietnam enlistee in Francis Ford Coppola's Gardens of Stone (1987).

While he has accrued several noteworthy screen assignments (including the starring role of a nasty hockey player in 1992's The Cutting Edge), D.B. Sweeney is best remembered for his even-keel portrayal of the tragic Shoeless Joe Jackson in Eight Men Out (1988); if he looked like a natural on the ballfield, it was because Sweeney had once actually played minor league baseball with the Kenosha Twins, hanging up his spikes after a knee injury.

In addition to his film roles, Sweeney continues working on television. He played Dish Boggett in the miniseries Lonesome Dove (1989) and in 1996 starred in the unfortunately short-lived Fox series Strange Luck in which he played an amnesiac freelance photographer with strange powers that resulted from his being the sole survivor of an airline disaster.

Sweeney also still appears in theatrical productions. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.