D.B. Sweeney

D. B. Sweeney
Sweeney in Iraq, 2008
Born	Daniel Bernard Sweeney (1961-10-14) October 14, 1961 (age 55) Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1987–present
Spouse(s)	Ashley Vachon (2000–present)
Children	2

Daniel Bernard "D. B." Sweeney (born October 14, 1961) is an American actor.

Sweeney was born and raised in Long Island, New York, by a teacher father and a municipal government employee mother. He attended Shoreham-Wading River High School and both Tulane and New York University. Before completing his B.F.A. at NYU in 1990, he starred in the Broadway revival of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial.

Sweeney guest-starred in the television series The Edge of Night and Spenser: For Hire. In films, he played a gung-ho Vietnam enlistee in Francis Ford Coppola's Gardens of Stone (1987), 1st Lt. Phil Lowenthal in Memphis Belle (1990), and Travis Walton in Fire in the Sky (1993). He also played Doug Dorsey in The Cutting Edge (1992), Shoeless Joe Jackson in Eight Men Out (1988), and Dish Boggett in Lonesome Dove (1989).

After voicing Iguanodon Aladar in the Disney CGI animated film Dinosaur, Sweeney starred in Life as We Know It as Michael Whitman (2004–2005) and C-16: FBI produced by Michael Robin.

Sweeney guest-starred on various television series, including House (2006) as Crandall, an ex-bandmate of Dr. Gregory House; Jericho as John Goetz (2006–2008); Castle as a Los Angeles detective (2011), and more. He also had recurring roles as U.S. Marshal Sam Kassmeyer, assigned to protect Haley and Jack Hotchner on Criminal Minds (2009); as Peter Emory in season 1 of Crash (2008); and as Carter in The Event (2010).