Career
His most famous creation was the script for the movie Flipper in 1963, which became a television series and was remade as a movie in 1996. He also worked alongside Irwin Allen as a writer and producer for "disaster" television films including Flood! and Fire!. In 1969 Weiss published the novel O"Kelly"s Eclipse about the undefeated British racehorse Eclipse.
Weiss married actress Fay Baker on 3 August 1940.