Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

152

Gender

Male

Birthday

1926-01-19

Deathday

2016-11-26 (90 years old)

Place of Birth

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Also Known As

Fritz William Weaver

Fritz Weaver

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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Acting

—		George Romero's Golden Tales 3
—		Battles That Doomed Hitler as Narrator (voice)

2020

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

2016

The Congressman as Harlan Lantier

2014		We'll Never Have Paris as Phillipe
2014		The Cobbler as Mr. Solomon

2013

Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight as Hugo Black

2011

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

2004

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust as Self

2001

Unsung Heroes of Pearl Harbor

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

1994		Spring Awakening as Captain Von Koster
1994		Pointman as Jason

1993		Frasier as Trevor Ainsley
1993		The X-Files as Senator Albert Sorenson
1993		Blind Spot as Simon
1993		Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Kovat

1992

Citizen Cohn as Sen. Everett Dirksen

1991		Ironclads as John Ericsson
1991		The Three Little Pigs

1990		Tales from the Darkside as Dr. Fenner
1990		Against the Law
1990		Law & Order as Nathan Fogg
1990		Law & Order as Philip Woodleigh
1990		Law & Order as Larry Weber
1990		Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer as Narrator

1989		My Name Is Bill W.
1989		The Spirit of Pittsburgh as Narrator

1988

Monsters

1987		Friday the 13th: The Series as Asteroth
1987		I'll Take Manhattan as Mr. Amberville

1986		L.A. Law as Dr. Aaron Pierce
1986		Matlock as Pastor James Hubert
1986		Under Siege as Bernard Hughes
1986		Power as Wallace Furman

1985		The Twilight Zone as (segment "The Star")
1985		A Death in California as Van Niven
1985		The Hearst and Davies Affair as Arthur Beal

1984		Murder, She Wrote as Edwin Dupont
1984		Murder, She Wrote as Paris Inspector Hugues Panassié
1984		Murder, She Wrote as Judge Lambert
1984		Tales from the Darkside as Dr. Fenner
1984		Tales from the Darkside as Sir Edmund Halley
1984		Hot Pursuit

1983		Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as Osiris
1983		Alice in Wonderland as Caterpillar

1982		Creepshow as Dexter Stanley (segment "The Crate")
1982		Maid in America as Jonas

1981		See China and Die as Poston
1981		Falcon Crest as Arthur Masefield
1981		Jaws of Satan as Pater Tom Farrow

1980		Nightkill as Herbert Childs
1980		Magnum, P.I. as Captain J. Cooly
1980		Children of Divorce as Eli Sorenson
1980		The Martian Chronicles as Father Peregrine
1980		Dan August: Once Is Never Enough as Dr. Michael Serling

1979

Tales of the Unexpected as Princey

1978		The Big Fix as Oscar Procari Sr.
1978		Holocaust as Dr. Josef Weiss

1977		Captains Courageous as Harvey Cheyne, Sr.
1977		The Love Boat as Mr. Weatherby
1977		Demon Seed as Alex Harris
1977		Black Sunday as FBI Agent Sam Corley

1976		Marathon Man as Professor Biesenthal
1976		Quincy, M.E. as Sen. William Pike

1975		Wonder Woman as Dr. Solano
1975		The Legend of Lizzie Borden as Mr. Andrew Borden
1975		Henry James' The Jolly Corner as Spencer Brydon

1974		Petrocelli as Colonel William Fletcher
1974		The Book of Murder as Henry
1974		Antigone as Creon
1974		A Touch of the Poet as Cornelius Melody

1973		The Day of the Dolphin as Harold DeMilo
1973		The Snoop Sisters as Anton de Tourolet
1973		Shock-A-Bye Baby
1973		Barnaby Jones as Laurence Sheffield
1973		Barnaby Jones as Jason Matthews
1973		Hunter as Cirrak

1972		The Snoop Sisters as Anton de Tourolet
1972		Kung Fu as Hillquist
1972		The Streets of San Francisco as Ted Whitlock
1972		Banyon as Whitney Pemberton
1972		Heat of Anger as Vincent Kagel

1971		Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law as Dr. Martin Cohen
1971		Cannon
1971		Great Performances as Caterpillar
1971		Great Performances as Creon

1970		Night Gallery as Dr. Mazi
1970		Berlin Affair as Joe Mallicent
1970		Dan August as Dr. Michael Serling
1970		Company of Killers as John Shankalien
1970		A Walk in the Spring Rain as Roger Meredith

1969		Room 222
1969		The Maltese Bippy as Mischa Ravenswood

1968		The Mod Squad as John Palmer
1968		The Outcasts
1968		Hawaii Five-O as Dr. Harvey Danworth
1968		The Name of the Game as Walter Scharz

1967		Mannix as William Avery
1967		Mannix as Dr. Cameron McKenzie
1967		The Crucible as Reverend Hale
1967		Ironside as Paul Friedland
1967		The Borgia Stick as Anderson
1967		The Invaders as Deputy Ambassador Peter Borke

1966		CBS Playhouse
1966		Mission: Impossible as Erik Hagar
1966		Mission: Impossible as Imre Rogosh
1966		Mission: Impossible as Emil Skarbeck
1966		Mission: Impossible as George Berlinger
1966		Felony Squad

1965		The F.B.I. as Steven Colton
1965		The F.B.I. as John Thomas Whiting
1965		The F.B.I. as Paul Winters
1965		The F.B.I. as Charles Ridgeway
1965		The Big Valley as Burke Jordan
1965		The Big Valley as Hebron Grant

1964		The Guns of August as Narrator (voice)
1964		Fail Safe as Col. Cascio
1964		The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Andrew Vulcan
1964		12 O'Clock High as Col. Peter Raff
1964		To Trap a Spy as Andrew Vulcan

1963		The Great Adventure as Colonel Thomas Rose
1963		The Fugitive as Joe Tucker
1963		The Power and the Glory

1962

Combat! as Major Chaplain Ernest Miller

1961		The New Breed as Arthur Grissom
1961		Dr. Kildare as Arthur Hobler
1961		Cain's Hundred as Martin Weir
1961		The Defenders as Leo Graves
1961		The Defenders as Vincent Kayle
1961		Jane Eyre
1961		The Asphalt Jungle
1961		Man From a Missing Land as Narrator

1959		The Twilight Zone as William Sturka
1959		The Twilight Zone as Chancellor
1959		The Bell Telephone Hour as Self - Narrator
1959		Rawhide as Jonathan Damon

1957		DuPont Show of the Month as Charlie Castle
1957		DuPont Show of the Month as Barsad

1956		Tony Awards as Self - Memoriam (archive footage)
1956		Tony Awards as Self - Winner

1955

Gunsmoke as Marshal Burl Masters

1952		Omnibus
1952		Omnibus as Newspaper Photographer

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Dr. Burnham

1950

Armstrong Circle Theatre as Milovan Djilas

1948		Studio One as George Hanley
1948		Studio One as George