Fritz Weaver
Born: 1926-01-19 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 2016-11-26
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2020
- 'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War as Self (archive footage)
2016
- The Congressman as Harlan Lantier
2014
- The Cobbler as Mr. Solomon
- We'll Never Have Paris as Phillipe
2013
- Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight as Hugo Black
2011
- This Must Be the Place as Cheyenne's Father (voice)
2004
2000
- Revisiting 'Fail-Safe' as Self (archive footage)
1999
- The Thomas Crown Affair as John Reynolds (Golf Buddy)
1997
- Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women as Father Theas (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")
1996
- Floating Palaces as Self - Narrator (voice)
1995
- Broken Trust as Lionel Nash
- George Romero's Golden Tales 3
1994
- Spring Awakening as Captain Von Koster
- Pointman as Jason
1993
- The X-Files as Senator Albert Sorenson
- Frasier as Trevor Ainsley
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Kovat
- Blind Spot as Simon
1992
- Citizen Cohn as Sen. Everett Dirksen
1991
- Ironclads as John Ericsson
- The Three Little Pigs
1990
- Law & Order as Nathan Fogg
- Against the Law
- Tales from the Darkside as Dr. Fenner
- Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer as Narrator
1989
- My Name Is Bill W.
- The Spirit of Pittsburgh as Narrator
1988
- Monsters as Mr. Hallet
1987
- Friday the 13th: The Series as Asteroth
- I'll Take Manhattan as Mr. Amberville
1986
- L.A. Law as Dr. Aaron Pierce
- Matlock as Pastor James Hubert
- Power as Wallace Furman
- Under Siege as Bernard Hughes
1985
- The Twilight Zone as (segment "The Star")
- A Death in California as Van Niven
- The Hearst and Davies Affair as Arthur Beal
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Edwin Dupont
- Tales from the Darkside as Dr. Fenner
- Hot Pursuit
1983
- Alice in Wonderland as Caterpillar
- Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as Osiris
1982
- Creepshow as Dexter Stanley (segment "The Crate")
- Jaws of Satan as Pater Tom Farrow
- Maid in America as Jonas
1981
- Falcon Crest as Arthur Masefield
- See China and Die as Poston
1980
- Magnum, P.I. as Captain J. Cooly
- The Martian Chronicles as Father Peregrine
- Nightkill as Herbert Childs
- Dan August: Once Is Never Enough as Dr. Michael Serling
- Children of Divorce as Eli Sorenson
1979
- Tales of the Unexpected as Princey
1978
- Holocaust as Dr. Josef Weiss
- The Big Fix as Oscar Procari Sr.
1977
- The Love Boat as Mr. Weatherby
- Demon Seed as Alex Harris
- Black Sunday as FBI Agent Sam Corley
- Captains Courageous as Harvey Cheyne, Sr.
- The Return of Wonder Woman as Dr. Solano
1976
- Quincy, M.E. as Sen. William Pike
- Marathon Man as Professor Biesenthal
1975
- Wonder Woman as Dr. Solano
- The Legend of Lizzie Borden as Mr. Andrew Borden
- Henry James' The Jolly Corner as Spencer Brydon
1974
- Petrocelli as Colonel William Fletcher
- A Touch of the Poet as Cornelius Melody
- Antigone as Creon
- The Book of Murder as Henry
- Give Me Liberty as George Washington
1973
- Barnaby Jones as Laurence Sheffield
- The Day of the Dolphin as Harold DeMilo
- Hunter as Cirrak
- Shock-A-Bye Baby
- Rx for the Defense as Dr. Daniel Kemper
1972
- The Streets of San Francisco as Ted Whitlock
- Banyon as Whitney Pemberton
- Delphi Bureau as Vander
- Kung Fu as Hillquist
- The Female Instinct as Anton de Tourolet
- Heat of Anger as Vincent Kagel
1971
- Great Performances as Caterpillar
- Cannon
- Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law as Dr. Martin Cohen
1970
- Night Gallery as Dr. Mazi
- Dan August as Dr. Michael Serling
- A Walk in the Spring Rain as Roger Meredith
- Company of Killers as John Shankalien
- Berlin Affair as Joe Mallicent
1969
- Room 222
- The Maltese Bippy as Mischa Ravenswood
1968
- Hawaii Five-O as Dr. Harvey Danworth
- The Name of the Game as Walter Scharz
- The Mod Squad as John Palmer
- The Outcasts
1967
- Mannix as William Avery
- Ironside as Paul Friedland
- The Invaders as Deputy Ambassador Peter Borke
- The Borgia Stick as Anderson
- The Crucible as Reverend Hale
1966
- Mission: Impossible as Erik Hagar
- Felony Squad
- CBS Playhouse as David Hoffman
1965
- The Big Valley as Burke Jordan
- The F.B.I. as Steven Colton
- To Trap a Spy as Andrew Vulcan
1964
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Andrew Vulcan
- 12 O'Clock High as Col. Peter Raff
- Fail Safe as Col. Cascio
- The Guns of August as Narrator (voice)
1963
- The Fugitive as Joe Tucker
- The Great Adventure as Colonel Thomas Rose
- Espionage as Richard Keller
- The Power and the Glory
1962
- Combat! as Major Chaplain Ernest Miller
1961
- Dr. Kildare as Arthur Hobler
- The Defenders as Leo Graves
- Cain's Hundred as Martin Weir
- The New Breed as Arthur Grissom
- The Asphalt Jungle
- Jane Eyre
- Man from a Missing Land as Self - Narrator (voice)
1960
- Festival as Brutus
1959
- The Twilight Zone as William Sturka
- Rawhide as Jonathan Damon
- The Bell Telephone Hour as Self - Narrator
1957
- DuPont Show of the Month as Charlie Castle
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Winner
1955
- Gunsmoke as Marshal Burl Masters
1952
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Dr. Burnham
1950
- Armstrong Circle Theatre as Milovan Djilas
1948
- Studio One as George Hanley