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Owen Weingott
Owen Ash Weingott (21 June 1921 – 12 October 2002) was an Australian actor, director, voice artist and drama teacher. Although primarily working in theatre, he appeared on radio and television in serials and made for television films and voice overs. Weingott was vice-president of the Australian actors union, the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance. He appeared in the very first Australian soap opera Autumn Affair, starring Muriel Steinbeck, and is well known for his role as Mr. Walter Bertram, a demented school principal in the first season of Home and Away
He's son was actor Paul Weingott, who was best known for playing Bruce Taylor, the first lover of Don Finlayson (Joe Hasham) in Number 96
Weingott was born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1921 to factory manager Abraham Weingott (1894-1953), a World War I military servicemen with the AIR who attained the ran of Sergeant and his wife Zara Hannah Davis and when he was 15 he began studying and performing with the Independent Theatre, then in King St. Sydney, under producer Doris Fitton, and later at the Savoy Theatre in Bligh Street: 1066 and All That,[citation needed] Six Characters in Search of an Author,[citation needed] and Judgement Day.[citation needed] He learnt to fence from Frank Stuart at the Sydney Swords Club. He was given a role in the Insect Play at the Independent in 1941.
In 1939 he left Sydney Boys High School and studied economics at Sydney University until joining the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in April 1942. In 1945, after his war service, having graduated as a Corporal. He studied Physical Education and returned to the Independent Theatre, now at North Sydney, performing as Young Siward in Macbeth. Stuart, who had choreographed the duel in Macbeth, advised Fitton to cast Weingott in future when duels where required. The next year, 1946, Fitton produced Hamlet and cast Weingott as Laertes (who duels with Hamlet), a role he played five more times, one being a live broadcast from the ABC-TV studios at Gore Hill.
On Stuart's suggestion Weingott studied period duelling and became a professional teacher choreographing 400+ duels. In 1971 he played Sinbad the Sailor in a pantomime directed by Bill Orr.
Weingott's first radio work was in 1945 in The Scarlet Widow , a serial for 2CH. He starred as Papa in Samuel Taylor's The Happy Time.
He was known for his Shakespearean roles, in 1951 he played Cornwall in John Alden's King Lear at St. James Hall, also choreographing the duels and the eye-gouging scene. In 1952 he joined Alden's national tour of a Shakespearian play season playing Edgar in King Lear, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Antigonus in The Winter's Tale, and The Prince of Morocco, Tubal and Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice.
Prior to the Alden tour he had played Mephistopheles in Goethe's Faust at the Independent Theatre, and on his return he approached Sydney John Kay for a position in his Mercury Theatre. Again he played Papa in The Happy Time, other plays in which he was involved as a leading actor for the Mercury included As You Like It, Ring Round the Moon, Tovarich, Charley's Aunt, Chekhov's The Proposal and a revue called Happily Ever After. At the Independent he played the lead in two plays by Arthur Miller, as Eddie Carbone in A View from the Bridge (1959) and as Victor in The Price (1970). He worked with Ray Milland in the play Hostile Witness (1967), John Mills in the film Adam's Woman (1970) and Michael Redgrave in John Mortimer's play A Voyage Round My Father (1973).
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Owen Weingott
Owen Ash Weingott (21 June 1921 – 12 October 2002) was an Australian actor, director, voice artist and drama teacher. Although primarily working in theatre, he appeared on radio and television in serials and made for television films and voice overs. Weingott was vice-president of the Australian actors union, the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance. He appeared in the very first Australian soap opera Autumn Affair, starring Muriel Steinbeck, and is well known for his role as Mr. Walter Bertram, a demented school principal in the first season of Home and Away
He's son was actor Paul Weingott, who was best known for playing Bruce Taylor, the first lover of Don Finlayson (Joe Hasham) in Number 96
Weingott was born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1921 to factory manager Abraham Weingott (1894-1953), a World War I military servicemen with the AIR who attained the ran of Sergeant and his wife Zara Hannah Davis and when he was 15 he began studying and performing with the Independent Theatre, then in King St. Sydney, under producer Doris Fitton, and later at the Savoy Theatre in Bligh Street: 1066 and All That,[citation needed] Six Characters in Search of an Author,[citation needed] and Judgement Day.[citation needed] He learnt to fence from Frank Stuart at the Sydney Swords Club. He was given a role in the Insect Play at the Independent in 1941.
In 1939 he left Sydney Boys High School and studied economics at Sydney University until joining the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in April 1942. In 1945, after his war service, having graduated as a Corporal. He studied Physical Education and returned to the Independent Theatre, now at North Sydney, performing as Young Siward in Macbeth. Stuart, who had choreographed the duel in Macbeth, advised Fitton to cast Weingott in future when duels where required. The next year, 1946, Fitton produced Hamlet and cast Weingott as Laertes (who duels with Hamlet), a role he played five more times, one being a live broadcast from the ABC-TV studios at Gore Hill.
On Stuart's suggestion Weingott studied period duelling and became a professional teacher choreographing 400+ duels. In 1971 he played Sinbad the Sailor in a pantomime directed by Bill Orr.
Weingott's first radio work was in 1945 in The Scarlet Widow , a serial for 2CH. He starred as Papa in Samuel Taylor's The Happy Time.
He was known for his Shakespearean roles, in 1951 he played Cornwall in John Alden's King Lear at St. James Hall, also choreographing the duels and the eye-gouging scene. In 1952 he joined Alden's national tour of a Shakespearian play season playing Edgar in King Lear, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Antigonus in The Winter's Tale, and The Prince of Morocco, Tubal and Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice.
Prior to the Alden tour he had played Mephistopheles in Goethe's Faust at the Independent Theatre, and on his return he approached Sydney John Kay for a position in his Mercury Theatre. Again he played Papa in The Happy Time, other plays in which he was involved as a leading actor for the Mercury included As You Like It, Ring Round the Moon, Tovarich, Charley's Aunt, Chekhov's The Proposal and a revue called Happily Ever After. At the Independent he played the lead in two plays by Arthur Miller, as Eddie Carbone in A View from the Bridge (1959) and as Victor in The Price (1970). He worked with Ray Milland in the play Hostile Witness (1967), John Mills in the film Adam's Woman (1970) and Michael Redgrave in John Mortimer's play A Voyage Round My Father (1973).