He appeared in the very first Australian soap opera Autumn Affair, opposite 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[1][2] Weingott was born in Sydney in 1921 and when he was 15 he began studying and performing with the Independent Theatre, then in King St., Sydney, under producer Doris Fitton, 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.
In 1945, after his war service, having graduated as Sergeant, he studied Physical Education and returned to the Independent Theatre, now at North Sydney, performing as Young Siward in Macbeth.
In 1951 he played Cornwall in John Alden's King Lear at St. James Hall, also choreographing the duels and the eye-gouging scene.
He was in ABN 2's television drama Sixty Point Bold, and its first live-to-air production of Hamlet, inevitably as Laertes.
He was a foundation teacher at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, and through the 1960s he worked as an actor with the Old Tote Theatre in plays which included The Playboy of the Western World, The Cherry Orchard, The Caucasian Chalk Circle and The School Mistress.
In 1974 he was invited to the Mitchell College of Advanced Education, Bathurst, to direct King Lear and to play the lead.
(Above is adapted from a published interview by Lyn Murphy & Richard Lane) National Institute of Dramatic Art Archive, personal papers, photographs, encrypted radio scripts and play texts, costume sketches and painted characteurs; Australian Film & TV Companion, by Tony Harrison; The Independent Theatre’s 40th Anniversary booklet; Interview with Owen Weingott (1999) and personal knowledge.