Weston, Jack [né Morris Weinstein] (1915?–96), character actor. The roly‐poly, balding comic usually played incompetent or overwhelmed characters. He was born in Cleveland and studied acting at the Cleveland Playhouse as a boy. After dropping out of high school and serving in World War II, Weston moved to New York and did odd jobs while training at the American Theatre Wing. Both his theatre and television careers began in 1950, but he didn't find an attention‐getting role on stage until he played the hapless Gaetano Proclo who hides in a gay steam bath to escape hit men in The Ritz (1975). Weston also shone as various visitors in California Suite (1976), the unfaithful husband Sam in Cheaters (1978), and the seedy talent agent Jerry Wexler in The Floating Light Bulb (1981).




