Jack Weston
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| Jack Weston | |
 Jack Weston as "Pig" in The Cincinnati Kid. |
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| Born | Jack Weinstein August 21, 1924 Cleveland, Ohio |
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| Died | May 3, 1996 (aged 71) New York City |
| Spouse(s) | Marge Redmond (1950–96) |
Jack Weston (born Jack Weinstein August 21, 1924 – May 3, 1996) was an American film, stage, and television actor.
Weston usually played comic roles in films such as Cactus Flower and Please Don't Eat the Daisies, but also occasionally essayed heavier parts, such as the scheming crook and stalker who, along with Alan Arkin and Richard Crenna, attempts to terrorize and rob a blind Audrey Hepburn in the 1967 film Wait Until Dark. Weston had countless character roles in major films such as "The Cincinnati Kid" and "The Thomas Crown Affair".
In 1981, Weston appeared on Broadway in Woody Allen's comedy The Floating Light Bulb, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award as Best Actor. Other stage appearances included Bells are Ringing (with Judy Holliday), The Ritz, One Night Stand, and Neil Simon's California Suite.
Weston married twice, first to actress Marge Redmond. They occasionally appeared together, an example being a 1963 episode of The Twilight Zone titled "The Bard", which also featured a young Burt Reynolds. Redmond and Weston divorced and he later remarried. That marriage lasted until his death of lymphoma in 1996.
[edit] Selected filmography
- Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)
- The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964)
- The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
- Wait Until Dark (1967)
- The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
- The April Fools (1969)
- Cactus Flower (1969)
- A New Leaf (1971)
- Gator (1976)
- The Ritz (1976)
- The Four Seasons (1981)
- High Road to China (1983)
- Terror in the Aisles (1984)
- The Longshot (1986)
- Rad (1986)
- Ishtar (1987)
- Dirty Dancing (1987)
- Short Circuit 2 (1988)
[edit] Television appearances
In the 1960-1961 television season, Weston appeared as Chick Adams, a reporter, on the CBS sitcom My Sister Eileen starring Shirley Bonne and Elaine Stritch as two sisters who share a New York City apartment. The next season, 1961-1962, he starred in another sitcom, The Hathaways (ABC, produced by Screen Gems), in which he and Peggy Cass adopted a trio of chimpanzees (the Marquis Chimps). The program followed Straightaway, an adventure series about auto racing on the ABC schedule starring Brian Kelly and John Ashley. Neither series could compete with CBS's Rawhide.
Other appearances include:
- The Twilight Zone, in the episodes "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" and "The Bard"
- Johnny Staccato as Tom in "The Unwise Men" (1959)
- The Lawless Years (NBC), in two episodes: "The Al Brown Story" (1959) and "The Kid Dropper Story" (1961)
- Harrigan and Son as Sanford in "Shall We Dance?" (1961)
- Breaking Point (ABC), as Sam Keller in the episode "Bird and Snake," with costar Robert Redford (1963)
- Tales of the Unexpected
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
- The Carol Burnett Show
- Perry Mason (TV series), in the episode "The Case of the Daring Decoy," aired 03/29/1958.
[edit] External links
- Jack Weston at the Internet Movie Database
- Jack Weston at the TCM Movie Database
- Jack Weston at the Internet Broadway Database
