Fritz Weaver
Born January 19, 1926 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Fritz William Weaver (January 19, 1926 − November 26, 2016) was an American actor in television, stage, and motion pictures. He portrayed Dr. Josef Weiss in the 1978 epic television drama Holocaust, for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. In cinema, he made his debut in the film Fail Safe (1964) and also appeared in Marathon Man (1976), Creepshow (1982), and The Thomas Crown Affair (1999). Among many television roles, he performed in the movie The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975). He also worked in science fiction and fantasy, especially in television series and movies like The Twilight Zone, 'Way Out, Night Gallery, The X-Files, The Martian Chronicles, and Demon Seed.
Notable Appearances
Movies
The Thomas Crown Affair
Creepshow
The Cobbler
Marathon Man
Demon Seed
This Must Be the Place
Fail Safe
Pointman
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
We'll Never Have Paris
Rx for the Defense
Ironclads
Black Sunday
Power
The Day of the Dolphin
My Name Is Bill W.
The Big Fix
The Legend of Lizzie Borden
Nightkill
Citizen Cohn
To Trap a Spy
Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women
Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Broken Trust
The Maltese Bippy
Tales from the Darkside
The Female Instinct
The Power and the Glory
Jaws of Satan
Under Siege
Blind Spot
See China and Die
The Congressman
Dan August: Once Is Never Enough
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
A Walk in the Spring Rain
The Hearst and Davies Affair
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
The Crucible
Henry James' The Jolly Corner
A Touch of the Poet
Company of Killers
Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer
The Borgia Stick
Alice in Wonderland
Heat of Anger
Spring Awakening
George Romero's Golden Tales 3
The Book of Murder
The Return of Wonder Woman
The Guns of August
Captains Courageous
Unsung Heroes of Pearl Harbor
Children of Divorce
Hunter
Unreleased
Battles That Doomed Hitler
Maid in America
The Three Little Pigs
Berlin Affair
Give Me Liberty
Jane Eyre
The Spirit of Pittsburgh
Antigone
TV Shows
Great Performances
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Falcon Crest
Magnum, P.I.
Ironside
Murder, She Wrote
The Fugitive
Tony Awards
Hawaii Five-O
L.A. Law
Mannix
Mission: Impossible
Quincy, M.E.
The Twilight Zone
Studio One
Matlock
Dr. Kildare
Cannon
Combat!
The Big Valley
The Twilight Zone
Rawhide
Barnaby Jones
Tales of the Unexpected
The Defenders
Tales from the Darkside
The F.B.I.
The Name of the Game
Gunsmoke
Night Gallery
12 O'Clock High
Omnibus
Armstrong Circle Theatre
The Invaders
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Monsters
Friday the 13th: The Series
The Mod Squad
Room 222
The Streets of San Francisco
Felony Squad
Wonder Woman
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
Petrocelli
NET Playhouse
The Bell Telephone Hour
The New Breed
The Great Adventure
Cain's Hundred
Dan August
The Outcasts
DuPont Show of the Month
Espionage
Holocaust
Banyon
The Asphalt Jungle
The Martian Chronicles
Festival
Hot Pursuit
Against the Law
A Death in California
Delphi Bureau
