- Died while still a cast member of Gimme a Break! (1981). The show wrote his death into the script and continued to air for two more years.
- A navigator on B-24 "Liberator" bomber aircraft, Sweet was a 2nd Lieutenant assigned to the 44th Bomb Group. Shot down on 1 August 1943 during Operation "Tidal Wave" (the first major mission flown against Axis oil refineries) at Ploseti, Romania, he was captured and held as a POW in Italy until 1944.
- Was the artist-in-residence at the University of New Hampshire's drama department in the 1977-1978 school year.
- Father: John W. Sweet; Mother: Louisa Brasser.
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