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Fritz Weaver

Born 1926-01-19

Died 2016-11-26

📍 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.

Filmography 152

'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War

as Self (archive footage)

The Congressman

as Harlan Lantier

We'll Never Have Paris

Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

This Must Be the Place

as Cheyenne's Father (voice)

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust

Unsung Heroes of Pearl Harbor

Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'

as Self (archive footage)

The Thomas Crown Affair

as John Reynolds (Golf Buddy)

Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women

as Father Theas (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")

Floating Palaces

as Self - Narrator (voice)

George Romero's Golden Tales 3

Spring Awakening

as Captain Von Koster

as Trevor Ainsley

as Senator Albert Sorenson

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

as Sen. Everett Dirksen

as John Ericsson

The Three Little Pigs

Tales from the Darkside

Against the Law

as Philip Woodleigh

Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer

My Name Is Bill W.

The Spirit of Pittsburgh

Friday the 13th: The Series

I'll Take Manhattan

as Mr. Amberville

as Dr. Aaron Pierce

as Pastor James Hubert

as Bernard Hughes

as Wallace Furman

The Twilight Zone

as (segment "The Star")

A Death in California

The Hearst and Davies Affair

Murder, She Wrote

as Edwin Dupont

Tales from the Darkside

Tales from the Darkside

as Sir Edmund Halley

Murder, She Wrote

as Paris Inspector Hugues Panassié

Murder, She Wrote

as Judge Lambert

Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Alice in Wonderland

as Dexter Stanley (segment "The Crate")

Maid in America

as Pater Tom Farrow

as Arthur Masefield

See China and Die

as Herbert Childs

as Captain J. Cooly

Children of Divorce

as Eli Sorenson

The Martian Chronicles

as Father Peregrine

Dan August: Once Is Never Enough

as Dr. Michael Serling

Tales of the Unexpected

as Oscar Procari Sr.

as Dr. Josef Weiss

Captains Courageous

as Harvey Cheyne, Sr.

as Mr. Weatherby

The Return of Wonder Woman

as FBI Agent Sam Corley

as Professor Biesenthal

as Sen. William Pike

The Legend of Lizzie Borden

as Mr. Andrew Borden

Henry James' The Jolly Corner

as Spencer Brydon

as Colonel William Fletcher

A Touch of the Poet

as Cornelius Melody

The Book of Murder

The Day of the Dolphin

as Harold DeMilo

Rx for the Defense

as Dr. Daniel Kemper

as Laurence Sheffield

as Jason Matthews

The Female Instinct

as Anton de Tourolet

The Streets of San Francisco

as Ted Whitlock

as Whitney Pemberton

as Vincent Kagel

Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law

as Dr. Martin Cohen

Great Performances

Great Performances

as Joe Mallicent

as Dr. Michael Serling

Company of Killers

as John Shankalien

A Walk in the Spring Rain

as Roger Meredith

The Maltese Bippy

as Mischa Ravenswood

as Dr. Harvey Danworth

The Name of the Game

as Walter Scharz

as Dr. Cameron McKenzie

as William Avery

as Reverend Hale

as Paul Friedland

The Borgia Stick

as Deputy Ambassador Peter Borke

Mission: Impossible

Mission: Impossible

Mission: Impossible

as Emil Skarbeck

Mission: Impossible

as George Berlinger

as Steven Colton

as John Thomas Whiting

as Paul Winters

as Charles Ridgeway

as Burke Jordan

as Hebron Grant

as Andrew Vulcan

The Guns of August

as Narrator (voice)

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

as Andrew Vulcan

12 O'Clock High

as Col. Peter Raff

as Richard Keller

The Great Adventure

as Colonel Thomas Rose

The Power and the Glory

as Major Chaplain Ernest Miller

as Arthur Grissom

as Arthur Hobler

as Vincent Kayle

The Asphalt Jungle

The Twilight Zone

as William Sturka

The Twilight Zone

The Bell Telephone Hour

as Self - Narrator

as Jonathan Damon

DuPont Show of the Month

as Charlie Castle

DuPont Show of the Month

as Self - Winner

as Self - Memoriam (archive footage)

as Marshal Burl Masters

as Newspaper Photographer

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Armstrong Circle Theatre

as Milovan Djilas

as George Hanley

Battles That Doomed Hitler

as Narrator (voice)