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D. B. Sweeney

D. B. Sweeney

4 films · 192 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19882015

Born 14 November 1961 · Shoreham, Long Island, New York, USA

Daniel Bernard "D. B." Sweeney is an American actor. Some of his best-known roles include Jackie Willow in Francis Ford Coppola's Gardens of Stone (1987), Lt. Phil Lowenthal in Memphis Belle (1990), and Travis Walton in Fire in the Sky (1993). He also starred in The Cutting Edge (1992), Eight Men Out (1988), Dinosaur (2000), and Brother Bear (2003).

How their films are shot

Measured across 192 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work D. takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 4 films we hold, 50% of their frames are night, 50% low key — the look of the work D. takes.

Time of day

Night50%
Day38%
Golden hour5%

Lighting

Low key50%
Natural39%
High key7%

Shot size

Medium42%
Wide28%
Closeup19%
Fullbody8%

Camera angle

Eye level77%
Low angle13%
High angle8%

Mood

Neutral56%
Tense24%
Ominous10%
Lonely4%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

Often with

Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 192 frames from D. B. Sweeney's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.