Alan Weeks

Alan Weeks was an American actor, dancer, singer, choreographer and theater educator who started out as a child performer on Broadway. Born and raised in Brooklyn, he made his Broadway debut in The Body Beautiful and returned in The Octoroon, and as a teenager he played Five Finger Finney and danced in the original cast of Funny Girl. He appeared in more than a dozen Broadway shows, among them Hallelujah, Baby!, George M!, The Wiz, The Tap Dance Kid and Big Deal, and he directed and choreographed The High Rollers Social and Pleasure Club (1992). His film debut came in Shaft (1971), followed by The French Connection (1971), Black Belt Jones (1974), Truck Turner (1974) and Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986). He was also a main cast member of the sitcom Baker's Dozen (1982) and later directed and acted in regional theater in Albany, New York. He died in 2015.