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Jack Weston
Jack Weston as "Pig" in The Cincinnati Kid.
Born	Jack Weinstein August 21, 1924(1924-08-21) Cleveland, Ohio
Died	May 3, 1996 (aged 71) New York City
Years active	1949–1988
Spouse(s)	Marge Redmond (1950–96) (divorced) Laurie Gilkes (?-1996) (his death)

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 married Laurie Gilkes. That marriage lasted until his death of lymphoma in 1996.

Selected filmography

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:

• Perry Mason, in the episode "The Case of the Daring Decoy," aired 03/29/1958
• 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)
• Thriller, episode "The Cheaters", originally aired December 26, 1960
• 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)
• The Fugitive: episodes "Fatso", originally aired November 19, 1963
• Tales of the Unexpected
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
• The Carol Burnett Show

References

External links

• Jack Weston at the Internet Movie Database
• Jack Weston at the TCM Movie Database
• Jack Weston at the Internet Broadway Database