Joseph Sweeney was an American actor who worked in stage production, television and movies. His most famous role was as juror number nine in the 1957 film Twelve Angry Men.

Stage career

Joseph Sweeney had a successful career as a stage performer. He was in such productions as The Clansmen, George Washington Slept Here, Ladies and Gentlemen

Ladies and Gentlemen (play)

Ladies and Gentlemen is a play by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht. The courtroom drama, inspired by a Hungarian play by Ladislaus Bush-Fekete, centers on the relationship that develops between two sequestered jurors, Miss Scott and Mr...

, A Slight Case of Murder

A Slight Case of Murder

A Slight Case of Murder is a 1938 comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon. The film is based on a play by Damon Runyon and Howard Lindsay. The offbeat comedy stars Edward G...

, Dear Old Darlin’, and Days To Remember. In the 1940s Sweeney made the switch to television as audiences’ interests changed.

Later life

Sweeney kept acting until he died, appearing in numerous television shows, more than twelve the year he died. Sweeney died on November 26, 1963 at the age of 79.

Filmography

• Sylvia on a Spree (1918)
• Soak the Rich (1936)
• The Philadelphia Story (1940)
• Outside the Wall (1950)
• Twelve Angry Men (1954) (TV)
• The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
  The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
  The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, by Sloan Wilson, is a 1955 novel about the American search for purpose in a world dominated by business. Tom and Betsy Rath share a struggle to find contentment in their hectic and material culture while several other characters fight essentially the same battle,...
  
  (1956)
• The Fastest Gun Alive
  The Fastest Gun Alive
  The Fastest Gun Alive is a 1956 western film starring Glenn Ford, Jeanne Crain and Broderick Crawford.-Plot:Notorious gunslinger George Kelby Jr. and his wife Dora settle down in a peaceful little town of Cross Creek under assumed identities to avoid having to continually face men out to become...
  
  (1956)
• Twelve Angry Men (1957)

External links

• Biography by New York Times
• Biography by Fandango (ticket service)
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