Career
Weld had an early career in Hollywood in the 1920s as a stunt double for Tom Mix, Buck Jones and other stars. He wrote about those days in his 1991 book "Fly Away Home: Memoirs of a Hollywood " During the late 1920s Weld was a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune in Paris and the New York American and New York World in New York City. Weld wrote screenplays for Columbia and Universal.
Served as director of publications for the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan, and owned Ford dealerships in Laguna and San Clemente, California.
