Weis was born in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Emma (née Wiener; 1889–1971) and Meyer Weis (1886-1942). He graduated from the
University of Southern California where he studied film. During
World War II, Weis served in the Air Force as a film technician. After the war, he began working at
MGM directing such films as
Bannerline (1951),
Just This Once (1952),
You for Me (1952) and
The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953). Weis began directing for television in 1954 and worked on such series as
M*A*S*H,
Ironside,
It Takes a Thief,
Twilight Zone,
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955),
The Jane Wyman Show,
The Andy Griffith Show,
Happy Days,
Starsky and Hutch,
CHiPs, ''
The Courtship of Eddie's Father, Hawaii Five-O, The Andros Targets, and The San Pedro Beach Bums'', among others. Weis won two
Directors Guild of America Awards for television direction in 1956 and again in 1958. Weis married Dori Perlman in 1950. They had two daughters together, Deborah and Pamela, before they divorced in 1955. Weis married actress
Rebecca Welles on August 25, 1961, in Los Angeles. Welles had two daughters from a previous marriage, Elizabeth and actress
Gwen Welles. Weis died in Los Angeles in 2000, at 78 years of age. He was interred in
Santa Fe, New Mexico at the
Santa Fe National Cemetery. Rebecca was interred beside him after her death in 2017. ==Selected filmography==