Fritz Weaver
Acting • Born 1926-01-19 – Died 2016-11-26
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
153 credits
The Thomas Crown Affair
Movie • 1999
John Reynolds (Golf Buddy)
Fail Safe
Movie • 1964
Col. Cascio
See China and Die
Movie • 1981
Poston
Marathon Man
Movie • 1976
Professor Biesenthal
The Borgia Stick
Movie • 1967
Anderson
The Power and the Glory
Movie • 1963
The Three Little Pigs
Movie • 1991
To Trap a Spy
Movie • 1965
Andrew Vulcan
The Female Instinct
Movie • 1972
Anton de Tourolet
The Spirit of Pittsburgh
Movie • 1989
Narrator
We'll Never Have Paris
Movie • 2014
Phillipe
Demon Seed
Movie • 1977
Alex Harris
Black Sunday
Movie • 1977
FBI Agent Sam Corley
This Must Be the Place
Movie • 2011
Cheyenne's Father (voice)
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Movie • 2004
Self
The Legend of Lizzie Borden
Movie • 1975
Mr. Andrew Borden
Ironclads
Movie • 1991
John Ericsson
Battles That Doomed Hitler
Movie
Narrator (voice)
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
Movie • 2000
Self (archive footage)
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
A Walk in the Spring Rain
Movie • 1970
Roger Meredith
Company of Killers
Movie • 1970
John Shankalien
Man from a Missing Land
Movie • 1961
Self - Narrator (voice)
Nightkill
Movie • 1980
Herbert Childs
Antigone
Movie • 1974
Creon
Pointman
Movie • 1994
Jason
Jane Eyre
Movie • 1961
Blind Spot
Movie • 1993
Simon
Jaws of Satan
Movie • 1982
Pater Tom Farrow
Alice in Wonderland
Movie • 1983
Caterpillar
The Book of Murder
Movie • 1974
Henry
The Day of the Dolphin
Movie • 1973
Harold DeMilo
Maid in America
Movie • 1982
Jonas
The Big Fix
Movie • 1978
Oscar Procari Sr.
Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Movie • 1983
Osiris
Heat of Anger
Movie • 1972
Vincent Kagel
The Maltese Bippy
Movie • 1969
Mischa Ravenswood
The Hearst and Davies Affair
Movie • 1985
Arthur Beal
Broken Trust
Movie • 1995
Lionel Nash
Creepshow
Movie • 1982
Dexter Stanley (segment "The Crate")
Under Siege
Movie • 1986
Bernard Hughes
Shock-A-Bye Baby
Movie • 1973
The Cobbler
Movie • 2014
Mr. Solomon
Berlin Affair
Movie • 1970
Joe Mallicent
George Romero's Golden Tales 3
Movie • 1995
Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer
Movie • 1990
Narrator
Children of Divorce
Movie • 1980
Eli Sorenson
Spring Awakening
Movie • 1994
Captain Von Koster
The Crucible
Movie • 1967
Reverend Hale
The Congressman
Movie • 2016
Harlan Lantier
Tales from the Darkside
Movie • 1990
Dr. Fenner
Power
Movie • 1986
Wallace Furman
Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women
Movie • 1997
Father Theas (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")
The Guns of August
Movie • 1964
Narrator (voice)
Captains Courageous
Movie • 1977
Harvey Cheyne, Sr.
Dan August: Once Is Never Enough
Movie • 1980
Dr. Michael Serling
Unsung Heroes of Pearl Harbor
Movie • 2001
Citizen Cohn
Movie • 1992
Sen. Everett Dirksen
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Movie • 2013
Hugo Black
My Name Is Bill W.
Movie • 1989
A Touch of the Poet
Movie • 1974
Cornelius Melody
Hunter
Movie • 1973
Cirrak
Henry James' The Jolly Corner
Movie • 1975
Spencer Brydon
The Return of Wonder Woman
Movie • 1977
Dr. Solano
Rx for the Defense
Movie • 1973
Dr. Daniel Kemper
Give Me Liberty
Movie • 1974
George Washington
Falcon Crest
TV • 1981
Arthur Masefield
L.A. Law
TV • 1986
Dr. Aaron Pierce
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Edwin Dupont
Magnum, P.I.
TV • 1980
Captain J. Cooly
The Great Adventure
TV • 1963
Colonel Thomas Rose
Tales from the Darkside
TV • 1984
Dr. Fenner
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV • 1964
Andrew Vulcan
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Nathan Fogg
Cain's Hundred
TV • 1961
Martin Weir
Kung Fu
TV • 1972
Hillquist
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Steven Colton
Friday the 13th: The Series
TV • 1987
Asteroth
Matlock
TV • 1986
Pastor James Hubert
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1985
(segment "The Star")
Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Dr. Harvey Danworth
Quincy, M.E.
TV • 1976
Sen. William Pike
The Streets of San Francisco
TV • 1972
Ted Whitlock
The Martian Chronicles
TV • 1980
Father Peregrine
Omnibus
TV • 1952
Room 222
TV • 1969
Frasier
TV • 1993
Trevor Ainsley
The Mod Squad
TV • 1968
John Palmer
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Marshal Burl Masters
The X-Files
TV • 1993
Senator Albert Sorenson
Studio One
TV • 1948
George Hanley
Combat!
TV • 1962
Major Chaplain Ernest Miller
Night Gallery
TV • 1970
Dr. Mazi
Wonder Woman
TV • 1975
Dr. Solano
Cannon
TV • 1971
Monsters
TV • 1988
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
William Sturka
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Dr. Burnham
Ironside
TV • 1967
Paul Friedland
Felony Squad
TV • 1966
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Jonathan Damon
The Outcasts
TV • 1968
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Joe Tucker
Banyon
TV • 1972
Whitney Pemberton
The Big Valley
TV • 1965
Burke Jordan
Petrocelli
TV • 1974
Colonel William Fletcher
Against the Law
TV • 1990
Hot Pursuit
TV • 1984
The New Breed
TV • 1961
Arthur Grissom
CBS Playhouse
TV • 1966
Holocaust
TV • 1978
Dr. Josef Weiss
Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Arthur Hobler
The Defenders
TV • 1961
Leo Graves
The Defenders
TV • 1961
Vincent Kayle
The Asphalt Jungle
TV • 1961
DuPont Show of the Month
TV • 1957
Charlie Castle
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Chancellor
Tales from the Darkside
TV • 1984
Sir Edmund Halley
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Paris Inspector Hugues Panassié
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
John Thomas Whiting
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Paul Winters
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Charles Ridgeway
The Big Valley
TV • 1965
Hebron Grant
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Caterpillar
A Death in California
TV • 1985
Van Niven
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Philip Woodleigh
The Name of the Game
TV • 1968
Walter Scharz
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Larry Weber
I'll Take Manhattan
TV • 1987
Mr. Amberville
Studio One
TV • 1948
George
Dan August
TV • 1970
Dr. Michael Serling
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Mr. Weatherby
Barnaby Jones
TV • 1973
Laurence Sheffield
Mannix
TV • 1967
William Avery
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
TV • 1971
Dr. Martin Cohen
Mannix
TV • 1967
Dr. Cameron McKenzie
Mission: Impossible
TV • 1966
Imre Rogosh
Mission: Impossible
TV • 1966
Erik Hagar
Mission: Impossible
TV • 1966
Emil Skarbeck
Mission: Impossible
TV • 1966
George Berlinger
The Bell Telephone Hour
TV • 1959
Self - Narrator
12 O'Clock High
TV • 1964
Col. Peter Raff
Armstrong Circle Theatre
TV • 1950
Milovan Djilas
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
TV • 1993
Kovat
Floating Palaces
TV • 1996
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Invaders
TV • 1967
Deputy Ambassador Peter Borke
DuPont Show of the Month
TV • 1957
Barsad
Barnaby Jones
TV • 1973
Jason Matthews
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Creon
Tales of the Unexpected
TV • 1979
Princey
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Judge Lambert
Omnibus
TV • 1952
Newspaper Photographer
Delphi Bureau
TV • 1972
Vander