Jack Weston
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Jack Weston (born Jack Weinstein; August 21, 1924 – May 3, 1996) was an American actor.
In 1976 and 1981, he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a Tony Award.
Personal life
Weston was active at the Cleveland Playhouse as a member of the "Curtain Pullers" youth group by age 12. He has also appeared in school performances at Parkwood Elementary, Patrick Henry Jr. High, and Glenville High School. He served in the Army for 28 months, mainly in Italy with the 34th Infantry Division. He appeared at the Playhouse in 1945 as Jack Weinstein, and then migrated to New York, where former Playhouse director K. Elmo Lowe assisted him in directing a USO troupe touring Japan, China, Okinawa, and Korea.
He joined the American Theatre Wing in New York after Lee Strasberg joined the American Theatre Wing. He didn't progress much professionally and went back to Cleveland, where he met Marge Redmond, another local actress, and the pair married there in 1950. Redmond was later known for her appearance in ABC's The Flying Nun. They did occasionally appear together, one of which was a 1963 episode of The Twilight Zone titled "The Bard." In the 1980s, Redmond and Weston divorced. There were no children when the couple met.
Laurie Gilkes was the Weston's second marriage, and they had one child together. After a six-year fight, they were married until his death from lymphoma on May 3, 1996. He was 71 years old when he died.
Jack was Anthony Spinelli's older brother, whose birth name was Sam Weinstein and whose first stage name was Sam Weston. The Westons were Jews.
Career
Weston, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, appeared in films including Cactus Flower (1969) and Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960). In the 1967 film Wait Until Dark, he took on more challenging roles, including the scheming crook and stalker, as well as Alan Arkin and Richard Crenna's attempts to terrorize and rob a blind Audrey Hepburn.
Weston appeared in many other film roles over the years, including in films like "The Cincinnati Kid (1968), The Thomas Crown Affair (1978), Guer (1984), and Short Circuit 2 (1988).
On television, he appeared in "The Case of the Daring Decoy" (2005), including murderer Fred Calvert. In 1961, he appeared on TV drama Route 66 as the boss of a traveling group of young woman nightclub dancers who mistreats his employees. In 1963, he appeared in an episode called "Fatso" in the TV drama The Fugitive.
In 1976, he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for his role in the film The Ritz. Weston appeared in Woody Allen's comedy The Floating Light Bulb, in 1981, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award as Best Actor. Bells are Ringing in 1956 (with Judy Holliday), The Ritz in 1975, Neil Simon's California Suite (1976) and One Night Stand in 1980 were among his other stage appearances.
Weston co-starred in Alan Alda's 1981 film The Four Seasons and then reprised his role as a co-star in a CBS television series spinoff.