Fritz Weaver
Department: Acting
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
The Thomas Crown Affair
1999
Fail Safe
1964
See China and Die
1981
Marathon Man
1976
The Borgia Stick
1967
The Power and the Glory
1963
The Three Little Pigs
1991
To Trap a Spy
1965
The Female Instinct
1972
The Spirit of Pittsburgh
1989
We'll Never Have Paris
2014
Demon Seed
1977
Black Sunday
1977
This Must Be the Place
2011
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004
The Legend of Lizzie Borden
1975
Ironclads
1991
Battles That Doomed Hitler
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Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
2000
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
2020
Company of Killers
1970
A Walk in the Spring Rain
1970
Man from a Missing Land
1961
Nightkill
1980
Antigone
1974
Pointman
1994
Jane Eyre
1961
Blind Spot
1993
Jaws of Satan
1982
Alice in Wonderland
1983
The Book of Murder
1974
The Day of the Dolphin
1973
Maid in America
1982
The Big Fix
1978
Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
1983
Heat of Anger
1972
The Maltese Bippy
1969
The Hearst and Davies Affair
1985
Broken Trust
1995
Creepshow
1982
Under Siege
1986
Shock-A-Bye Baby
1973
The Cobbler
2014
Berlin Affair
1970
George Romero's Golden Tales 3
1995
Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer
1990
Children of Divorce
1980
Spring Awakening
1994
The Crucible
1967
The Congressman
2016
Tales from the Darkside
1990
Power
1986
Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women
1997
The Guns of August
1964
Captains Courageous
1977
Dan August: Once Is Never Enough
1980
Unsung Heroes of Pearl Harbor
2001
Citizen Cohn
1992
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
2013
My Name Is Bill W.
1989
A Touch of the Poet
1974
Hunter
1973
Henry James' The Jolly Corner
1975
The Return of Wonder Woman
1977
Rx for the Defense
1973
Give Me Liberty
1974
Falcon Crest
1981
L.A. Law
1986
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Magnum, P.I.
1980
The Great Adventure
1963
Tales from the Darkside
1984
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
Law & Order
1990
Cain's Hundred
1961
Kung Fu
1972
The F.B.I.
1965
Friday the 13th: The Series
1987
Matlock
1986
The Twilight Zone
1985
Hawaii Five-O
1968
Quincy, M.E.
1976
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
The Martian Chronicles
1980
Omnibus
1952
Room 222
1969
Frasier
1993
The Mod Squad
1968
Gunsmoke
1955
The X-Files
1993
Studio One
1948
Combat!
1962
Night Gallery
1970
Wonder Woman
1975
Cannon
1971
Monsters
1988
The Twilight Zone
1959
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Ironside
1967
Felony Squad
1966
Rawhide
1959
The Outcasts
1968
The Fugitive
1963
Banyon
1972
The Big Valley
1965
Petrocelli
1974
Against the Law
1990
Hot Pursuit
1984
The New Breed
1961
CBS Playhouse
1966
Holocaust
1978
Dr. Kildare
1961
The Defenders
1961
The Defenders
1961
The Asphalt Jungle
1961
DuPont Show of the Month
1957
The Twilight Zone
1959
Tales from the Darkside
1984
Murder, She Wrote
1984
The F.B.I.
1965
The F.B.I.
1965
The F.B.I.
1965
The Big Valley
1965
Great Performances
1971
A Death in California
1985
Law & Order
1990
The Name of the Game
1968
Law & Order
1990
I'll Take Manhattan
1987
Studio One
1948
Dan August
1970
The Love Boat
1977
Barnaby Jones
1973
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1971
Mannix
1967
Mannix
1967
Mission: Impossible
1966
Mission: Impossible
1966
Mission: Impossible
1966
Mission: Impossible
1966
The Bell Telephone Hour
1959
12 O'Clock High
1964
Armstrong Circle Theatre
1950
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993
Floating Palaces
1996
The Invaders
1967
DuPont Show of the Month
1957
Barnaby Jones
1973
Great Performances
1971
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Omnibus
1952
Delphi Bureau
1972
Tony Awards
1956
Tony Awards
1956