Sometimes Jack Weston is credited as Jack Western, his birth name is Jack Weinstein.

This amazing career has spanned over 40 years on Broadway and in television and movies. Jack Weston is an actor that has played everything from sleazy villains to terrifying killers to clumsy comics.

As a child Jack Weston joined the children's theater, staying with the company until he was drafted into the army at the age of 19.

In the Army, Jack Weston was a Machine Gunner and USO performer in World War II, before arriving in New York to start his theater career.

Elaine May made her directorial debut in 1971 with A NEW LEAF Jack Weston was in this film and he worked for her again in ISHTAR in 1987.

We occasionaly saw Jack Weston in a serious role, in such films as IMITATION OF LIFE (1959), MIRAGE (1965), THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1968), and notably as one of the card players in THE CINCINNATI KID (1965) just to name a few of the serious roles Jack played.

The movie THE FOUR SEASON written and directed by Alan Alda, has been noted as Westons favorite movie.

In 1958 Jack Weston made his big-screen debut in STAGE STRUCK.

Jack Weston's first major film role was in PLEASE DON"T EAT THE DAISIES in 1960.

In the 1967 cult classic WAIT UNTIL DARK, Jack Weston plays the bad-guy role, a stalker who, along with Alan Arkin terrorizes a blind Audrey Hepburn.

Over his forty year career in television, movies and Broadway he would be nominated for a Tony award for best actor in 1976; for his role in THE FLOATING LIGHTBULB Weston received a Tony nomination for his portrayal of thetrashy manager.