
Fritz Weaver
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 19, 1926
- Died
- November 26, 2016 (aged 90)
- Birthplace
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
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Filmography

Battles That Doomed Hitler
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
Movie · as Self (archive footage)

The Congressman
Movie · as Harlan Lantier

We'll Never Have Paris
Movie · as Phillipe

The Cobbler
Movie · as Mr. Solomon

Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Movie · as Hugo Black

This Must Be the Place
Movie · as Cheyenne's Father (voice)

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Movie · as Self

Unsung Heroes of Pearl Harbor
Movie

The Thomas Crown Affair
Movie · as John Reynolds (Golf Buddy)

Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women
Movie · as Father Theas (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")

Floating Palaces
TV · as Self - Narrator (voice) · 2 eps

Broken Trust
Movie · as Lionel Nash

George Romero's Golden Tales 3
Movie

Pointman
Movie · as Jason

Spring Awakening
Movie · as Captain Von Koster

Blind Spot
Movie · as Simon

Frasier
TV · as Trevor Ainsley · 1 ep

The X-Files
TV · as Senator Albert Sorenson · 2 eps

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
TV · as Kovat · 1 ep

Citizen Cohn
Movie · as Sen. Everett Dirksen

The Three Little Pigs
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

Ironclads
Movie · as John Ericsson

Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

Tales from the Darkside
Movie · as Dr. Fenner

Law & Order
TV · as Nathan Fogg, Philip Woodleigh, Larry Weber · 1 ep

Against the Law
TV · 1 ep

The Spirit of Pittsburgh
Movie · as Narrator

My Name Is Bill W.
Movie

Monsters
TV · as Mr. Hallet · 1 ep

Friday the 13th: The Series
TV · as Asteroth · 2 eps

I'll Take Manhattan
TV · as Mr. Amberville · 4 eps

Under Siege
Movie · as Bernard Hughes

Power
Movie · as Wallace Furman

L.A. Law
TV · as Dr. Aaron Pierce · 1 ep

Matlock
TV · as Pastor James Hubert · 1 ep

The Hearst and Davies Affair
Movie · as Arthur Beal

The Twilight Zone
TV · as (segment "The Star") · 1 ep

A Death in California
TV · as Van Niven · 2 eps

Murder, She Wrote
TV · as Edwin Dupont, Paris Inspector Hugues Panassié, Judge Lambert · 1 ep

Tales from the Darkside
TV · as Dr. Fenner, Sir Edmund Halley · 1 ep

Hot Pursuit
TV · 1 ep

Alice in Wonderland
Movie · as Caterpillar

Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Movie · as Osiris

Jaws of Satan
Movie · as Pater Tom Farrow

Maid in America
Movie · as Jonas

Creepshow
Movie · as Dexter Stanley (segment "The Crate")

See China and Die
Movie · as Poston

Falcon Crest
TV · as Arthur Masefield · 1 ep

Nightkill
Movie · as Herbert Childs

Children of Divorce
Movie · as Eli Sorenson

Dan August: Once Is Never Enough
Movie · as Dr. Michael Serling
Magnum PI: Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii
Movie · as Captain Cooly

Magnum, P.I.
TV · as Captain J. Cooly · 2 eps

The Martian Chronicles
TV · as Father Peregrine · 1 ep

Tales of the Unexpected
TV · as Princey · 1 ep

The Big Fix
Movie · as Oscar Procari Sr.

Holocaust
TV · as Dr. Josef Weiss · 4 eps

Demon Seed
Movie · as Alex Harris

Black Sunday
Movie · as FBI Agent Sam Corley

Captains Courageous
Movie · as Harvey Cheyne, Sr.

The Return of Wonder Woman
Movie · as Dr. Solano

The Love Boat
TV · as Mr. Weatherby · 1 ep

Marathon Man
Movie · as Professor Biesenthal

Quincy, M.E.
TV · as Sen. William Pike · 1 ep

The Legend of Lizzie Borden
Movie · as Mr. Andrew Borden

Henry James' The Jolly Corner
Movie · as Spencer Brydon

Wonder Woman
TV · as Dr. Solano · 1 ep

Antigone
Movie · as Creon

The Book of Murder
Movie · as Henry

A Touch of the Poet
Movie · as Cornelius Melody

Give Me Liberty
Movie · as George Washington

Petrocelli
TV · as Colonel William Fletcher · 1 ep

The Day of the Dolphin
Movie · as Harold DeMilo
Shock-A-Bye Baby
Movie

Hunter
Movie · as Cirrak

Rx for the Defense
Movie · as Dr. Daniel Kemper

Barnaby Jones
TV · as Laurence Sheffield, Jason Matthews · 1 ep

The Female Instinct
Movie · as Anton de Tourolet

Heat of Anger
Movie · as Vincent Kagel

Kung Fu
TV · as Hillquist · 1 ep

The Streets of San Francisco
TV · as Ted Whitlock · 1 ep

Banyon
TV · as Whitney Pemberton · 1 ep

Delphi Bureau
TV · as Vander · 1 ep

Cannon
TV · 3 eps

Great Performances
TV · as Caterpillar, Creon · 1 ep

Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
TV · as Dr. Martin Cohen · 1 ep

A Walk in the Spring Rain
Movie · as Roger Meredith

Company of Killers
Movie · as John Shankalien

Berlin Affair
Movie · as Joe Mallicent

Night Gallery
TV · as Dr. Mazi · 1 ep

Dan August
TV · as Dr. Michael Serling · 1 ep

The Maltese Bippy
Movie · as Mischa Ravenswood

Hawaii Five-O
TV · as Dr. Harvey Danworth · 1 ep

Room 222
TV · 1 ep

The Mod Squad
TV · as John Palmer · 1 ep

The Outcasts
TV · 1 ep

The Name of the Game
TV · as Walter Scharz · 1 ep

The Borgia Stick
Movie · as Anderson

The Crucible
Movie · as Reverend Hale

Ironside
TV · as Paul Friedland · 1 ep

Mannix
TV · as Dr. Cameron McKenzie, William Avery · 1 ep

The Invaders
TV · as Deputy Ambassador Peter Borke · 1 ep

Felony Squad
TV · 2 eps

Mission: Impossible
TV · as Imre Rogosh, Erik Hagar, Emil Skarbeck, George Berlinger · 1 ep
CBS Playhouse
TV · as David Hoffman · 1 ep

NET Playhouse
TV · 1 ep

To Trap a Spy
Movie · as Andrew Vulcan

The F.B.I.
TV · as Steven Colton, John Thomas Whiting, Paul Winters, Charles Ridgeway · 1 ep

The Big Valley
TV · as Burke Jordan, Hebron Grant · 1 ep

Fail Safe
Movie · as Col. Cascio

The Guns of August
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV · as Andrew Vulcan · 1 ep

12 O'Clock High
TV · as Col. Peter Raff · 1 ep

The Power and the Glory
Movie

The Great Adventure
TV · as Colonel Thomas Rose · 1 ep

The Fugitive
TV · as Joe Tucker · 1 ep

Espionage
TV · as Richard Keller · 1 ep

Combat!
TV · as Major Chaplain Ernest Miller · 1 ep
Man from a Missing Land
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)

Jane Eyre
Movie · as Mason

Cain's Hundred
TV · as Martin Weir · 1 ep

The New Breed
TV · as Arthur Grissom · 1 ep

Dr. Kildare
TV · as Arthur Hobler · 1 ep

The Defenders
TV · as Leo Graves, Vincent Kayle · 1 ep

The Asphalt Jungle
TV · 1 ep

Festival
TV · as Brutus · 1 ep

The Twilight Zone
TV · as William Sturka, Chancellor · 1 ep

Rawhide
TV · as Jonathan Damon · 2 eps

The Bell Telephone Hour
TV · as Self - Narrator · 1 ep

DuPont Show of the Month
TV · as Charlie Castle, Barsad · 1 ep

Tony Awards
TV · as Self - Winner, Self - Memoriam (archive footage) · 1 ep

Gunsmoke
TV · as Marshal Burl Masters · 1 ep

Omnibus
TV · as Newspaper Photographer · 1 ep

Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Dr. Burnham · 1 ep

Armstrong Circle Theatre
TV · as Milovan Djilas · 1 ep

Studio One
TV · as George Hanley · 1 ep

