D.B. Sweeney Biography

Fast Facts

• Won several film festival awards for his film "Two Tickets to Paradise," including an Independent Spirit Award at the Santa Fe Film Festival
• Founded a website dedicated to getting messages of support to active duty and retired military
• Graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1984
• Made his screen acting debut in the TV movie "Out of the Darkness" in 1985
• Was cast in the Broadway revival of "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" before his graduation from New York University
• Quote: "I think there's a lot of me in all my roles - that's all you have to draw on․"
• Best known as the voice of Aladar in the Walt Disney film "Dinosaur" and as Bernie in "Taken 2․"
• Played minor league baseball for a short time before later playing a baseball player in "Eight Men Out․"
• Worked as a voice actor for OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network, and as the narrator of the TV series "Mountain Men․"
• Wrote, produced, directed, and starred as Billy McGriff in the 2006 film "Two Tickets to Paradise․"
• Flew with the helicopter squadron HMM-364, "The World Famous Purple Foxes," while visiting service members in Iraq in 2008