James R. Tweedell (born 30 November 1952; age 72) is an actor who appeared as an alien bistro patron in the Star Trek: Enterprise first season episode "Two Days and Two Nights". He received no credit for this appearance but was identified by the call sheet of the episode which lists him as "4 MB Man". Tweedell filmed his scenes on Monday 25 March 2002 on Paramount Stage 9. He previously played two different Romulans in two episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. His uniform from these episodes was previously worn by Dennis Madalone and Jay Marks on Deep Space Nine and by Ty Murphy in the Star Trek: Voyager fourth season episode "Message in a Bottle". It was later sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. [1](X)
Hailing from Atlanta, Georgia, Tweedell moved to Los Angeles in the 1980s to pursue an acting career. He appeared as a Newcomer Cop in episodes of Alien Nation (1989-1990, starring Gary Graham, Michele Scarabelli, Eric Pierpoint, and Ron Fassler) and as a police officer in Something Is Out There (1988-1989, starring Gregory Sierra). Film work includes background roles in Harlem Nights (1989, starring Eddie Murphy, with Mike Genovese, William Utay, Eddie Smith, Don Familton, and Bob Harks), Tango & Cash (1989, with Teri Hatcher, Marc Alaimo, Michael J. Pollard, Leslie Morris, Roy Brocksmith, Richard Fancy, Phil Rubenstein, Clint Howard, Geoff Vanderstock, Larry Humburger, John Walter Davis, Glenn Morshower, Matt Tufo, Martin Valinsky, Philip Weyland, Cibby Danyla, Conrad Hurtt, and Jim Painter), and Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure (1989, with Robin Gammell and Tim de Zarn).
Further film work include Ricochet (1991, with Victoria Dillard, John Cothran, Jr., Sherman Howard, Carlos LaCamara, Mark Phelan, Albie Selznick, Leonard O. Turner, Tim de Zarn, and Bryan Sapphire), Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992, with Michael McKean, Jim Norton, Barry Kivel, Rosalind Chao, Shay Duffin, Sam Anderson, Ellen Albertini Dow, Aaron Lustig, and Tina Kotrich), the independent film Revelations, Newsies (1992, with Gabriel Damon, Marc Lawrence, Kevin Tighe, William Boyett, Ryan MacDonald, Shay Duffin, Frank Novak, Louise Bale, Nick Dimitri, Mark Ginther, Gene LeBell, Monty O'Grady, Rick Ryan, Michael Stanhope, Gio Talegon, and June Jordan), Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994, with Raye Birk, Matt Roe, Earl Boen, Rosalind Ingledew, Alex Zimmerman, Marc Alaimo, Rick Scarry, Bob Scribner, Marcy Goldman, Bill Erwin, Bill Zuckert, Joycelyn Robinson, Al Ahlf, Sam Alejan, Ed Anders, David Keith Anderson, Chris Antonucci, Rachen Assapiomonwait, Kimberly Auslander, Jane Austin, Lena Banks, Buzz Barbee, John Lendale Bennett, Maria Berman, Jessie Biscardi, Robert Buckingham, Kelly Burris, Faith Burton, Robert Coffee, Lou DeGrado, Peggy Donaldson, Lanier Edwards, Jasmine Gagnier, Kevin Grevioux, Star Halm, Linda Harcharic, Chuck Hicks, Jeff Imada, Andray Johnson, James Earl Jones, Mark Kosakura, Gene LeBell, Dan Magee, Robert Lombardo, Eric Mansker, Dwayne McGee, Bob McGovern, Susan McNabb, Henry Murph, Mike Paciorek, Mary Peters, Rob Plaza, Gene Poe, Jim Portnoy, Denise Lynne Roberts, George Sasaki, Mike Satterfield, Theresa St. Clair, John Staible, Roberta Storm, Symba Smith, Warren Tabata, Kevin G. Tracey, Mike Washlake, Gary Wayton, Brian J. Williams, and Catherine Wong), Batman Forever (1995, with René Auberjonois, Michael Scranton, Eileen Seeley, Ray Uhler, Kevin Grevioux, Gary Kasper, Noby Arden, Sidney Liufau, Jim Palmer, Peewee Piemonte, John Ashker, Kimberly Auslander, Ed Begley, Jr., Lisa Christy, Erik Cord, Gunnel Eriksson, Holiday Freeman, Adolphus Hankins, Susan Lewis, Bob McGovern, Ve Neill, Wanda Norman, Darryl Stewart, and Ilona Wilson), and the television movie Alien Nation: The Udara Legacy (1997, with Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Michele Scarabelli, Ron Fassler, Tim de Zarn, Jeff Allin, Josh Cruze, Kevin Grevioux, Scott Barry, Ivy Borg, Cullen Chambers, Gene Cross, Steve Diamond, Bob Harks, Stuart Nixon, Dan Rose, Scott L. Schwartz, Darryl Stewart, and Leland Sun).
Tweedell can also be seen as a cop in Tupac Shakur's music video Trapped (1992), as a police officer in Echobelly's music video Great Things (1995), and as a surgeon on Chicago Hope. In the 2000s, Tweedell moved back to his hometown Atlanta.