D.B. Sweeney
Birth Place: Shoreham, New York, USA Date of Birth: November 14, 1961
Heritage: American
Contact D.B. Sweeney
|
|
|
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.
Credit:
starpulse.com
|
|
|
|
|