He attended the Stevens Institute at Hoboken, New Jersey and participated in some amateur plays before making his professional debut in 1907.

[3] He appeared in The Country Boy (1910) with Willette Kershaw, The Family Cupboard (1913) with Irene Fenwick and more famously Kick In(1914) with Jane Grey and John Barrymore.

Reference to a review of the Gardens' performance of this week reveals the verdict -- 'A Broadway production, plus!

'"[5] Winant later returned to Elitch Theatre in 1915 to star in his Broadway hit, The Country Boy, and followed that up at the theater with the leading role in Anatol, but then left for New York rehearsals of The New Shylock.

[7] Winant died at the beginning of 1928 and was buried Greenwood Cemetery Brooklyn New York.