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Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 19, 1926
Died
November 26, 2016
Place of Birth
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Also Known As
- Fritz William Weaver
Fritz Weaver
0.5 Popularity
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
0.0
Self (archive footage)
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
2020
6.3
Harlan Lantier
The Congressman
2016
4.8
Phillipe
We'll Never Have Paris
2014
5.9
Mr. Solomon
The Cobbler
2014
6.3
Hugo Black
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
2013
7.0
Cheyenne's Father (voice)
This Must Be the Place
2011
6.5
Self
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004
0.0
Unsung Heroes of Pearl Harbor
2001
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
2000
6.7
John Reynolds (Golf Buddy)
The Thomas Crown Affair
1999
Credits
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
as Self (archive footage)
2020
0.0
The Congressman
as Harlan Lantier
2016
6.3
We'll Never Have Paris
as Phillipe
2014
4.8
The Cobbler
as Mr. Solomon
2014
5.9
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
as Hugo Black
2013
6.3
This Must Be the Place
as Cheyenne's Father (voice)
2011
7.0
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
as Self
2004
6.5
Unsung Heroes of Pearl Harbor
2001
0.0
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
as Self (archive footage)
2000
0.0
The Thomas Crown Affair
as John Reynolds (Golf Buddy)
1999
6.7
Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women
as Father Theas (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")
1997
7.0
Floating Palaces
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1996
0.0
Broken Trust
as Lionel Nash
1995
5.2
Spring Awakening
as Captain Von Koster
1994
5.0
Pointman
as Jason
1994
6.2
Frasier
as Trevor Ainsley
1993
7.7
The X-Files
as Senator Albert Sorenson
1993
8.4
Blind Spot
as Simon
1993
6.0
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
as Kovat
1993
7.9
Citizen Cohn
as Sen. Everett Dirksen
1992
6.3
Ironclads
as John Ericsson
1991
7.0
The Three Little Pigs
1991
0.0
Tales from the Darkside
as Dr. Fenner
1990
6.8
Against the Law
1990
6.0
Law & Order
as Nathan Fogg
1990
7.4
Law & Order
as Philip Woodleigh
1990
7.4
Law & Order
as Larry Weber
1990
7.4
Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer
as Narrator
1990
6.0
My Name Is Bill W.
1989
6.5
The Spirit of Pittsburgh
as Narrator
1989
0.0
Monsters
1988
7.1
Friday the 13th: The Series
as Asteroth
1987
7.3
I'll Take Manhattan
as Mr. Amberville
1987
5.8
L.A. Law
as Dr. Aaron Pierce
1986
7.1
Matlock
as Pastor James Hubert
1986
7.1
Under Siege
as Bernard Hughes
1986
7.5
Power
as Wallace Furman
1986
5.9
The Twilight Zone
as (segment "The Star")
1985
7.8
A Death in California
as Van Niven
1985
1.5
The Hearst and Davies Affair
as Arthur Beal
1985
3.8
Tales from the Darkside
as Dr. Fenner
1984
7.2
Tales from the Darkside
as Sir Edmund Halley
1984
7.2
Murder, She Wrote
as Edwin Dupont
1984
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
as Paris Inspector Hugues Panassié
1984
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
as Judge Lambert
1984
7.5
Hot Pursuit
1984
5.0
Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
as Osiris
1983
6.5
Alice in Wonderland
as Caterpillar
1983
6.8
Creepshow
as Dexter Stanley (segment "The Crate")
1982
6.9
Maid in America
as Jonas
1982
0.0
Jaws of Satan
as Pater Tom Farrow
1982
5.0
See China and Die
as Poston
1981
0.0
Falcon Crest
as Arthur Masefield
1981
5.5
Nightkill
as Herbert Childs
1980
5.1
Magnum, P.I.
as Captain J. Cooly
1980
7.3
Children of Divorce
as Eli Sorenson
1980
6.0
The Martian Chronicles
as Father Peregrine
1980
6.9
Dan August: Once Is Never Enough
as Dr. Michael Serling
1980
4.0
Tales of the Unexpected
as Princey
1979
6.7
The Big Fix
as Oscar Procari Sr.
1978
5.7
Holocaust
as Dr. Josef Weiss
1978
7.4
Captains Courageous
as Harvey Cheyne, Sr.
1977
6.0
The Love Boat
as Mr. Weatherby
1977
6.3
The Return of Wonder Woman
as Dr. Solano
1977
7.0
Demon Seed
as Alex Harris
1977
5.9
Black Sunday
as FBI Agent Sam Corley
1977
6.7
Marathon Man
as Professor Biesenthal
1976
7.2
Quincy, M.E.
as Sen. William Pike
1976
7.5
Wonder Woman
as Dr. Solano
1975
7.0
The Legend of Lizzie Borden
as Mr. Andrew Borden
1975
6.7
Henry James' The Jolly Corner
as Spencer Brydon
1975
0.0
Petrocelli
as Colonel William Fletcher
1974
7.0
The Book of Murder
as Henry
1974
0.0
Antigone
as Creon
1974
0.0
A Touch of the Poet
as Cornelius Melody
1974
0.0
The Day of the Dolphin
as Harold DeMilo
1973
5.8
🎬
Shock-A-Bye Baby
1973
0.0
Barnaby Jones
as Laurence Sheffield
1973
6.9
Barnaby Jones
as Jason Matthews
1973
6.9
Hunter
as Cirrak
1973
0.0
The Female Instinct
as Anton de Tourolet
1972
0.0
Kung Fu
as Hillquist
1972
7.6
The Streets of San Francisco
as Ted Whitlock
1972
6.9
Banyon
as Whitney Pemberton
1972
7.0
Heat of Anger
as Vincent Kagel
1972
0.0
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
as Dr. Martin Cohen
1971
6.3
Cannon
1971
6.5
Great Performances
as Caterpillar
1971
5.3
Great Performances
as Creon
1971
5.3
Night Gallery
as Dr. Mazi
1970
7.8
Berlin Affair
as Joe Mallicent
1970
0.0
Dan August
as Dr. Michael Serling
1970
6.8
Company of Killers
as John Shankalien
1970
4.0
A Walk in the Spring Rain
as Roger Meredith
1970
5.8
Room 222
1969
6.0
The Maltese Bippy
as Mischa Ravenswood
1969
5.4
The Mod Squad
as John Palmer
1968
6.3
The Outcasts
1968
5.3
Hawaii Five-O
as Dr. Harvey Danworth
1968
7.1
The Name of the Game
as Walter Scharz
1968
6.8
Mannix
as William Avery
1967
6.7
Mannix
as Dr. Cameron McKenzie
1967
6.7
The Crucible
as Reverend Hale
1967
3.5
Ironside
as Paul Friedland
1967
6.8
The Borgia Stick
as Anderson
1967
7.8
The Invaders
as Deputy Ambassador Peter Borke
1967
6.8
🎬
CBS Playhouse
1966
7.0
Mission: Impossible
as Erik Hagar
1966
7.6
Mission: Impossible
as Imre Rogosh
1966
7.6
Mission: Impossible
as Emil Skarbeck
1966
7.6
Mission: Impossible
as George Berlinger
1966
7.6
Felony Squad
1966
6.4
The F.B.I.
as Steven Colton
1965
5.5
The F.B.I.
as John Thomas Whiting
1965
5.5
The F.B.I.
as Paul Winters
1965
5.5
The F.B.I.
as Charles Ridgeway
1965
5.5
The Big Valley
as Burke Jordan
1965
6.1
The Big Valley
as Hebron Grant
1965
6.1
The Guns of August
as Narrator (voice)
1964
0.0
Fail Safe
as Col. Cascio
1964
7.8
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Andrew Vulcan
1964
7.2
12 O'Clock High
as Col. Peter Raff
1964
7.3
To Trap a Spy
as Andrew Vulcan
1964
5.6
The Great Adventure
as Colonel Thomas Rose
1963
0.0
The Fugitive
as Joe Tucker
1963
7.2
The Power and the Glory
1963
0.0
Combat!
as Major Chaplain Ernest Miller
1962
7.6
The New Breed
as Arthur Grissom
1961
7.0
Dr. Kildare
as Arthur Hobler
1961
5.5
Cain's Hundred
as Martin Weir
1961
4.7
The Defenders
as Leo Graves
1961
6.2
The Defenders
as Vincent Kayle
1961
6.2
Jane Eyre
1961
0.0
The Asphalt Jungle
1961
5.0
🎬
Man From a Missing Land
as Narrator
1961
6.0
The Twilight Zone
as William Sturka
1959
8.4
The Twilight Zone
as Chancellor
1959
8.4
🎬
The Bell Telephone Hour
as Self - Narrator
1959
7.3
Rawhide
as Jonathan Damon
1959
7.2
DuPont Show of the Month
as Charlie Castle
1957
6.8
DuPont Show of the Month
as Barsad
1957
6.8
Tony Awards
as Self - Memoriam (archive footage)
1956
5.1
Tony Awards
as Self - Winner
1956
5.1
Gunsmoke
as Marshal Burl Masters
1955
6.6
Omnibus
1952
6.0
Omnibus
as Newspaper Photographer
1952
6.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Dr. Burnham
1951
8.6
Armstrong Circle Theatre
as Milovan Djilas
1950
3.0
Studio One
as George Hanley
1948
5.0
Studio One
as George
1948
5.0
George Romero's Golden Tales 3
N/A
4.0
Battles That Doomed Hitler
as Narrator (voice)
N/A
0.0