Fritz Weaver
Born: 1926-01-19
• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
The Congressman
We'll Never Have Paris
The Cobbler
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
This Must Be the Place
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Unsung Heroes of Pearl Harbor
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
The Thomas Crown Affair
Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women
Broken Trust
George Romero's Golden Tales 3
Spring Awakening
Pointman
Blind Spot
Citizen Cohn
Ironclads
The Three Little Pigs
Tales from the Darkside
Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer
My Name Is Bill W.
The Spirit of Pittsburgh
Under Siege
Power
The Hearst and Davies Affair
Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Alice in Wonderland
Creepshow
Maid in America
Jaws of Satan
See China and Die
Nightkill
Children of Divorce
Dan August: Once Is Never Enough
The Big Fix
Captains Courageous
The Return of Wonder Woman
Demon Seed
Black Sunday
Marathon Man
The Legend of Lizzie Borden
Henry James' The Jolly Corner
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Give Me Liberty
A Touch of the Poet
The Book of Murder
Antigone
The Day of the Dolphin
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Shock-A-Bye Baby
Rx for the Defense
Hunter
The Female Instinct
Heat of Anger
Berlin Affair
Company of Killers
A Walk in the Spring Rain
The Maltese Bippy
The Crucible
The Borgia Stick
To Trap a Spy
The Guns of August
Fail Safe
The Power and the Glory
Jane Eyre
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Man from a Missing Land
Battles That Doomed Hitler