Actor
Joseph Sweeney
July 26, 1884 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Joseph Sweeney (July 26, 1884 – November 25, 1963) was an American actor who worked in stage productions, television and movies. His most famous role was as the elderly Juror #9 in the 1957 film 12 Angry Men, the role he originated in a 1954 Westinghouse Studio One live teleplay of which the film was an adaptation.
Notable work
Often works with
E.G. Marshall
3 titles together
12 Angry Men, Studio One, The Philco Television Playhouse
Jack Warden
3 titles together
12 Angry Men, The Philco Television Playhouse, The Petrified Forest
Lee J. Cobb
2 titles together
12 Angry Men, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Jack Klugman
2 titles together
12 Angry Men, The Petrified Forest
Henry Fonda
2 titles together
12 Angry Men, The Petrified Forest
George Voskovec
2 titles together
12 Angry Men, Twelve Angry Men
Full filmography · 12
If You Knew Elizabeth
as Mr Owen
1957
12 Angry Men
as Juror 9
19578.6
The Fastest Gun Alive
as Reverend
19566.9
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
as Edward M. Schultz
19566.7
The Petrified Forest
as Gramps
1955
Twelve Angry Men
as Juror #9
19547.9
Outside the Wall
as Prison Hospital Inmate (uncredited)
1950
The Philadelphia Story
as Butler (uncredited)
19407.5
Soak the Rich
as Capt. Pettijohn, 1st Detective
1936