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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1926-01-19 (99 years old)

Place of Birth

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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.

Known For

Acting

2020

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

2016

The Congressman as Harlan Lantier

2014

The Cobbler as Mr. Solomon

2013

2011

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

2004

2001

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

Pointman as Jason
Spring Awakening as Captain Von Koster

1993

Blind Spot as Simon
Frasier as Trevor Ainsley
The X-Files as Senator Albert Sorenson

1992

Citizen Cohn as Sen. Everett Dirksen

1991

Ironclads as John Ericsson

1990

Law & Order as Nathan Fogg
Law & Order as Philip Woodleigh
Law & Order as Larry Weber

1989

1988

1987

I'll Take Manhattan as Mr. Amberville

1986

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

1985

The Twilight Zone as (segment "The Star")

1984

Murder, She Wrote as Edwin Dupont
Tales from the Darkside as Sir Edmund Halley
Murder, She Wrote as Paris Inspector Hugues Panassié
Murder, She Wrote as Judge Lambert

1983

Alice in Wonderland as Caterpillar

1982

Creepshow as Dexter Stanley (segment "The Crate")

1981

Jaws of Satan as Pater Tom Farrow
Falcon Crest as Arthur Masefield

1980

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

1979

1978

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

1977

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

1976

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

1975

The Legend of Lizzie Borden as Mr. Andrew Borden
Wonder Woman as Dr. Solano

1974

Antigone as Creon
A Touch of the Poet as Cornelius Melody
Petrocelli as Colonel William Fletcher

1973

The Day of the Dolphin as Harold DeMilo
Hunter as Cirrak
Barnaby Jones as Laurence Sheffield
Barnaby Jones as Jason Matthews
The Snoop Sisters as Anton de Tourolet

1972

The Snoop Sisters as Anton de Tourolet
Heat of Anger as Vincent Kagel
Kung Fu as Hillquist
Banyon as Whitney Pemberton

1971

Great Performances as Caterpillar

1970

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

1969

The Maltese Bippy as Mischa Ravenswood

1968

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

1967

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

1966

Mission: Impossible as Imre Rogosh
Mission: Impossible as Erik Hagar
Mission: Impossible as Emil Skarbeck
Mission: Impossible as George Berlinger

1965

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

1964

Fail Safe as Col. Cascio
To Trap a Spy 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

1963

The Great Adventure as Colonel Thomas Rose
The Fugitive as Joe Tucker

1962

Combat! as Major Chaplain Ernest Miller

1961

Cain's Hundred as Martin Weir
The New Breed as Arthur Grissom
Dr. Kildare as Arthur Hobler
The Defenders as Leo Graves
The Defenders as Vincent Kayle

1959

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

1957

DuPont Show of the Month as Charlie Castle

1956

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

1955

Gunsmoke as Marshal Burl Masters

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
Studio One as George

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Battles That Doomed Hitler as Narrator (voice)