Biography
One of Hollywood's standbys for playing genial everymen during the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, Jake Weber hailed from Britain. His roles typically constituted bit parts in A-list Hollywood features, beginning with that of
Kyra Sedgwick's (unnamed) boyfriend in the
Oliver Stone-directed period saga
Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and continuing with work for directors including
Sidney Lumet (
A Stranger Among Us, 1992), the late Alan J. Pakula (The Pelican Brief, 1993) and
Martin Brest (
Meet Joe Black, 1998). Weber fortified his nice guy image - and scored one of his premier leads - as Dr. Matt Crower, a kindly physician who takes charge of a young boy and protects him from a possessed sheriff - in actor-turned-producer
Shaun Cassidy's short-lived supernatural drama series
American Gothic (1995) on CBS. Unfortunately, that program soon folded after it first bowed, as did the
Mike Binder sitcom
Mind of the Married Man (2001), in which Weber signed on as one of the leads, Chicago newspaper employee Jake Berman. After a substantial role in the gory horror remake
Dawn of the Dead (2004), Weber played one of the leads in the popular CBS series
Medium - as Joe Dubois, the husband of a woman (
Patricia Arquette) plagued by psychic visions, who uses her ability to solve a string of crimes. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide