Name: Jeffrey Weissman
Date of Birth: 2 October 1958 Was set to screen test for the lead in Richard Donner's "Ladyhawke", until Mathew Broderick lowered his asking price. He was cast in Clint Eastwood's return to westerns, "Pale Rider" when Chris Penn, originally cast as Eddy Conway wanted a meaner role of a bad guy, and Clint moved him from the role of Eddy Conway to the role of Josh LaHood. Chuck LaFont, originally set to play Teddy, was then moved to play Eddy Conway, and Jeffrey took over as Teddy Conway. Jeffrey was cast as a regular in the short lived TV series "Legmen", and by the time he was set to shoot his role, the series was canceled. ... He was "discovered" by casting director/producer Wally Nicita and the original director Martin Brest at a San Francisco open call, and screen tested with Ally Sheedy for the lead in "The Genius", later renamed "War Games" (Martin Brest was replaced by John Badham). Appeared in Greg Araki's USC grad student thesis project, Catherine Hardwick and Michael Werb's "Road Girls" teaser in the mid '80s. Took over the role of "George McFly" in the Back to the Future sequels. Production told him he was to be Crispen Glover's "photo double" never mentioning that they didn't have Crispen's "ok" to use his likeness in scenes needed for parts 2 & 3 where Jeffrey was made up to look like Crispen. Bob Gale, the writer/producer promised Jeffrey another role without the prosthetic make up in part 3, which did not materialize. Read more Jeffrey Weissman movies (actor)User Comments |
