Daniel Bernard "D. B." Sweeney (born November 14, 1961) is an American actor.
Sweeney was born on Long Island, New York and raised in Shoreham by an educator father and a municipal government employee mother. He attended Shoreham-Wading River High School where he was a member of Omega Gamma Delta Fraternity. He attended both Tulane and New York University. Though he had trouble getting sizeable roles in student productions, upon his graduation he...
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Daniel Bernard "D. B." Sweeney (born November 14, 1961) is an American actor.
Sweeney was born on Long Island, New York and raised in Shoreham by an educator father and a municipal government employee mother. He attended Shoreham-Wading River High School where he was a member of Omega Gamma Delta Fraternity. He 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.
Sweeney went on to guest star on such television series as The Edge of Night and Spenser: For Hire before entering films, where he portrayed an idealistic, gung-ho Vietnam enlistee in Francis Ford Coppola's Gardens of Stone (1987). While he has gone on to many roles (among them a hockey player turned figure skater in The Cutting Edge (1992), Sweeney is perhaps best remembered for his portrayal of the tragic Shoeless Joe Jackson in Eight Men Out (1988), although...
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