1. The son of Mr and Mrs Dwight W Weist, he was born in Palo Alto, California, but was raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
16 Facts About Dwight Weist
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Dwight Weist attended Scranton's Central High School, where he participated in dramatics.
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Dwight Weist was a 1931 graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University, where he participated in debate, and he acted in the Cleveland Play House theater company.
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Dwight Weist worked on WGBI in Scranton, relating instructions about playing bridge.
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Some of Dwight Weist's friends watched as he listened to a speech by Hitler and immediately afterward spoke in the newer tone himself.
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Dwight Weist was heard in the film Zelig and was shown announcing the Pearl Harbor attack in Radio Days.
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Dwight Weist narrated the short films State Trooper, about the Connecticut State Police, and Here Come the Yanks, about the National War Fund.
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Dwight Weist was the voice of the character Adso as an old man, in the 1986 movie "The Name of the Rose".
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Dwight Weist's character was a quiet painter, free artist very far from art business and lost in the NY exhibition of his paintings.
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On television, Dwight Weist was the announcer on Search for Tomorrow and worked on Walter Cronkite's Sunday News Special and Guy Lombardo's Diamond Jubilee.
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When Dwight Weist worked in New York City, he and his family lived on the shore of Lake Tomahawk in Orange County, New York, and he traveled to and from work by plane.
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Dwight Weist bought his first aircraft, a Fairchild, in 1940, before he learned how to fly.
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In 1935, Dwight Weist married Elizabeth Maxwell, a registered nurse, in Manhattan.
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Dwight Weist had a workshop in New York City in which he worked on toys and other wooden products during time between radio programs.
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Dwight Weist died July 16,1991, of a heart attack in Block Island, Rhode Island.
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Dwight Weist was survived by three sisters, four sons, a daughter, and seven grandchildren.