Since graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in 1961[1] (having won its Silver Medal for that year)[2] he has acted in numerous film, television and stage productions, including twenty-seven Shakespeare plays and prominent guest roles in two Doctor Who serials.
Weston was born in London and educated at Dulwich Prep & Senior before attending Alleyn's School, during the time that Michael Croft, founder of the National Youth Theatre (NYT), worked there.
[6] In August 1960, Weston played Mark Antony in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar at the Queen's Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue.
[7] The Times was more muted in its praise of the Electra and Oedipus Rex of Sophocles in a double bill put on by the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) at its Vanbrugh Theatre in Bloomsbury in February 1961.
[9] Weston later appeared in the serial Warriors' Gate in the 1981 season of Doctor Who in the pivotal role of the time-sensitive Biroc.