Jack Weston

In a 40-year career that spanned Broadway, television and movies, the versatile actor played everyone from sleazy villains to terrifying killers to clumsy comics. His bad-guy roles included a stalker who, along with 'Alan Arkin' (qv) terrorized a blind 'Audrey Hepburn' (qv) in the 1967 cult classic _Wait Until Dark (1967)_ (qv).He appeared in much lighter roles in _Cactus Flower (1969)_ (qv), _Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)_ (qv), and _Dirty Dancing (1987)_ (qv). In the latter, he ran a family resort in the Catskills that set the stage for romance between a teen-ager and dance instructor. His stage work included the Broadway hits "California Suite" in 1976 and 1981's "The Floating Lightbulb," for which he received a Tony nomination for his role as the trashy manager. Also in 1981, Weston appeared opposite 'Alan Alda' (qv) in _The Four Seasons_, a movie about three middle-aged couples who vacation together. He played a cantankerous dentist obsessed with his Mercedes, which ended up going through the ice into a frozen lake at the movie's conclusion. Other film credits include _Stage Struck (1958)_ (qv), _The Cincinnati Kid (1965)_ (qv), _The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)_ (qv), _The Ritz (1976)_ (qv), and _Ishtar (1987)_ (qv).::Anoymous