by Hans J. Wollstein
biography
A former University of Alabama football star, handsome Weldon Heyburn was better known for his busy private life than for any of the juvenile leads he played while under contract with Fox in the early '30s. He married Norwegian bombshell Greta Nissen, his leading lady in the courtroom drama The Silent Witness (1932) and they later co-starred in Hired Wife (1934) for low-budget company Pinnacle. By then, the marriage was all but over and Heyburn, who had gained quite a bit of weight, spent his remaining years onscreen playing villains in B-Westerns.
