- While he was an undergrad at Stanford, he and some friends painted footprints up the side of the campanile and into a window at the top. The university was aghast and immediately dispatched a cleanup crew that had to rent a giant cherry-picker to remove the paint. The next morning there were footprints leading down from the window to the ground.
- Appeared in The Birds (1963) with a young Veronica Cartwright, who later appeared in Alien (1979) with his niece Sigourney Weaver.
- Died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in Burbank, California in January 1983 at the age of 70.
- His later life was marred by chronic alcoholism.
- His four marriages ended in three divorces and an annulment. Two of his brides were 21; the other two were 19.
- Suffered from major illnesses in his later years (from 1977 on), including a triple-bypass heart operation.
- His biggest break as a comedian did not occur until his "Professor Feitelbaum" character caught on with the Spike Jones band on radio in 1948.
- Son of Sylvester Laflin Weaver and wife Annabel Dixon. Younger brother of NBC-TV executive Sylvester L. Weaver Jr., best-known as "Pat Weaver". Uncle of Sigourney Weaver. Brother-in-law of Elizabeth Inglis.
- Because of his freckles and large ears, his mother nicknamed him "Doodlebug".
- Was given his own summer series by NBC after he was seen in an Ajax commercial on the Colgate Comedy Hour sharing the screen with a live pig.
- Two children with Reita Green: Janella J. Weaver born August 24, 1958 (who wed Mark D. Butler on April 3, 1982) and Winstead B. Weaver born on June 6, 1960, both in Los Angeles, California.
- His local Los Angeles children's show "Doodles Club House" ran a couple of years in the late 1950s. He also hosted a kiddie show in San Francisco for one season.
- He hosted his own daily kids' TV show in the Los Angeles (CA) viewing area in the early 1950s and performed in a series of color silent-film comedies for nationally syndicated TV, entitled "A Day With Doodles Weaver".
- Once had designs on being a school athletic director.
- His father was a well-to-do industrialist who founded the tourist-promoting All-Year Club in Los Angeles.
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