Background
Weston, Jack was born on August 21, 1924.
Weston, Jack was born on August 21, 1924.
Weston, a Cleveland, Ohio native, usually played comic roles in films such as Cactus Flower (1969) and Please Don"t Eat the Daisies (1960). He 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.
On television he made numerous appearances such as murderer Fred Calvert in the 1958 Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Daring Decoy."
Other stage appearances included Bells are Ringing in 1956 (with Judy Holliday), The Ritz in 1975, Neil Simon"s California Suite (1976) and One Night Stand in 1980.
Weston co-starred in Alan Alda"s 1981 film The Four Seasons, and then reprised his role to star in a television series spinoff on Columbia Broadcasting System. Personal life
Weston served in the United States Army during World World War World War II 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".
The union was childless. In the 1960–1961 television season, Weston appeared as Chick Adams, a reporter, on the Columbia Broadcasting System sitcom My Sister Eileen starring Shirley Bonne and Elaine Stritch as two sisters who share a New York City brownstone apartment.
The other co-stars were Stubby Kaye, Rose Marie, and Raymond Bailey.
The next season, 1961–1962, he starred in the short-lived sitcom The Hathaways (American Broadcasting Company, produced by Screen Gems), in which he and Peggy Cass adopted a trio of chimpanzees (the Marquis Chimps).