D.B. Sweeney

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Daniel Bernard Sweeney (born November 14, 1961 in Shoreham, New York) is an American film and television actor.

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 television series as The Edge of Night and Spencer For Hire before entering films, where he scored with the critics for his portrayal of an idealistic, gung-ho Vietnam enlistee in Francis Ford Coppola's Garden of Stone (1987). While he has accrued several assignments (including the starring role of a nasty hockey player in The Cutting Edge (1992)), 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 played minor baseball with the Kenosha Twins, hanging up his spikes after a knee injury.

D.B. Sweeney also starred in films such as Memphis Belle (1990), Blue Desert (1991), Fire in the Sky (1993), and Hardball (2001). In addition to his film roles, he continues to work on television. He played Dish Boggett in the miniseries Lonesome Dove (1989) and in 1996 starred in the short lived Fox series Strange Luck in which he plays an amnesiac freelance photographer with stange powers that results from being the sole survivor of an airplane disaster; he later co-starred in another short-lived series, the science fiction offering Harsh Realm. Sweeney still appears in theatrical productions.