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Fritz Weaver

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

Born: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 1926-01-19

Died: 2016-11-26

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1961	Man From a Missing Land	Narrator	60
2	1961	Jane Eyre		0
3	1963	The Power and the Glory		0
4	1964	To Trap a Spy	Andrew Vulcan	56
5	1964	Fail Safe	Col. Cascio	78
6	1964	The Guns of August	Narrator (voice)	0
7	1967	The Borgia Stick	Anderson	78
8	1967	The Crucible	Reverend Hale	35
9	1969	The Maltese Bippy	Mischa Ravenswood	54
10	1970	A Walk in the Spring Rain	Roger Meredith	58
11	1970	Company of Killers	John Shankalien	40
12	1970	Berlin Affair	Joe Mallicent	0
13	1972	Heat of Anger	Vincent Kagel	0
14	1972	The Female Instinct	Anton de Tourolet	0
15	1973	Hunter	Cirrak	0
16	1973	Shock-A-Bye Baby		0
17	1973	The Day of the Dolphin	Harold DeMilo	58
18	1974	A Touch of the Poet	Cornelius Melody	0
19	1974	Antigone	Creon	0
20	1974	The Book of Murder	Henry	0
21	1975	Henry James' The Jolly Corner	Spencer Brydon	0
22	1975	The Legend of Lizzie Borden	Mr. Andrew Borden	68
23	1976	Marathon Man	Professor Biesenthal	72
24	1977	Black Sunday	FBI Agent Sam Corley	67
25	1977	Demon Seed	Alex Harris	59
26	1977	The Return of Wonder Woman	Dr. Solano	70
27	1977	Captains Courageous	Harvey Cheyne, Sr.	60
28	1978	The Big Fix	Oscar Procari Sr.	57
29	1980	Dan August: Once Is Never Enough	Dr. Michael Serling	40
30	1980	Children of Divorce	Eli Sorenson	60
31	1980	Nightkill	Herbert Childs	51
32	1981	See China and Die	Poston	0
33	1982	Jaws of Satan	Pater Tom Farrow	50
34	1982	Maid in America	Jonas	0
35	1982	Creepshow	Dexter Stanley (segment "The Crate")	69
36	1983	Alice in Wonderland	Caterpillar	68
37	1983	Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art	Osiris	65
38	1985	The Hearst and Davies Affair	Arthur Beal	38
39	1986	Power	Wallace Furman	59
40	1986	Under Siege	Bernard Hughes	75
41	1989	The Spirit of Pittsburgh	Narrator	0
42	1989	My Name Is Bill W.		65
43	1990	Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer	Narrator	60
44	1990	Tales from the Darkside	Dr. Fenner	60
45	1991	The Three Little Pigs		0
46	1991	Ironclads	John Ericsson	70
47	1992	Citizen Cohn	Sen. Everett Dirksen	63
48	1993	Blind Spot	Simon	60
49	1994	Pointman	Jason	62
50	1994	Spring Awakening	Captain Von Koster	50
51	1995	Broken Trust	Lionel Nash	52
52	1999	The Thomas Crown Affair	John Reynolds (Golf Buddy)	67
53	2000	Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'	Self (archive footage)	0
54	2004	Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust	Self	65
55	2011	This Must Be the Place	Cheyenne's Father (voice)	70
56	2014	The Cobbler	Mr. Solomon	59
57	2014	We'll Never Have Paris	Phillipe	48
58		Battles That Doomed Hitler	Narrator (voice)	0
59		George Romero's Golden Tales 3		40
60	1997	Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women	Father Theas (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")	70
61	2001	Unsung Heroes of Pearl Harbor		0
62	2013	Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight	Hugo Black	63
63	2016	The Congressman	Harlan Lantier	63
64	2020	'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War	Self (archive footage)	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	Studio One	George Hanley	50
2	1948	Studio One	George	50
3	1950	Armstrong Circle Theatre	Milovan Djilas	30
4	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Dr. Burnham	86
5	1952	Omnibus		60
6	1952	Omnibus	Newspaper Photographer	60
7	1955	Gunsmoke	Marshal Burl Masters	66
8	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Memoriam (archive footage)	51
9	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Winner	51
10	1957	DuPont Show of the Month	Charlie Castle	68
11	1957	DuPont Show of the Month	Barsad	68
12	1959	Rawhide	Jonathan Damon	72
13	1959	The Bell Telephone Hour	Self - Narrator	73
14	1959	The Twilight Zone	William Sturka	84
15	1959	The Twilight Zone	Chancellor	84
16	1961	The Asphalt Jungle		50
17	1961	The Defenders	Leo Graves	62
18	1961	The Defenders	Vincent Kayle	62
19	1961	Cain's Hundred	Martin Weir	47
20	1961	Dr. Kildare	Arthur Hobler	55
21	1961	The New Breed	Arthur Grissom	70
22	1962	Combat!	Major Chaplain Ernest Miller	77
23	1963	The Fugitive	Joe Tucker	72
24	1963	The Great Adventure	Colonel Thomas Rose	0
25	1964	12 O'Clock High	Col. Peter Raff	73
26	1964	The Man from U.N.C.L.E.	Andrew Vulcan	72
27	1965	The Big Valley	Burke Jordan	61
28	1965	The Big Valley	Hebron Grant	61
29	1965	The F.B.I.	Steven Colton	55
30	1965	The F.B.I.	John Thomas Whiting	55
31	1965	The F.B.I.	Paul Winters	55
32	1965	The F.B.I.	Charles Ridgeway	55
33	1966	Felony Squad		64
34	1966	Mission: Impossible	Imre Rogosh	76
35	1966	Mission: Impossible	Erik Hagar	76
36	1966	Mission: Impossible	Emil Skarbeck	76
37	1966	Mission: Impossible	George Berlinger	76
38	1966	CBS Playhouse		70
39	1967	The Invaders	Deputy Ambassador Peter Borke	68
40	1967	Ironside	Paul Friedland	68
41	1967	Mannix	Dr. Cameron McKenzie	67
42	1967	Mannix	William Avery	67
43	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Dr. Harvey Danworth	71
44	1968	The Name of the Game	Walter Scharz	68
45	1968	The Outcasts		53
46	1968	The Mod Squad	John Palmer	63
47	1969	Room 222		60
48	1970	Dan August	Dr. Michael Serling	68
49	1970	Night Gallery	Dr. Mazi	78
50	1971	Great Performances	Caterpillar	53
51	1971	Great Performances	Creon	53
52	1971	Cannon		65
53	1971	Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law	Dr. Martin Cohen	63
54	1972	Banyon	Whitney Pemberton	70
55	1972	The Streets of San Francisco	Ted Whitlock	69
56	1972	Kung Fu	Hillquist	77
57	1973	Barnaby Jones	Laurence Sheffield	69
58	1973	Barnaby Jones	Jason Matthews	69
59	1974	Petrocelli	Colonel William Fletcher	71
60	1975	Wonder Woman	Dr. Solano	70
61	1976	Quincy, M.E.	Sen. William Pike	75
62	1977	The Love Boat	Mr. Weatherby	63
63	1978	Holocaust	Dr. Josef Weiss	74
64	1979	Tales of the Unexpected	Princey	67
65	1980	The Martian Chronicles	Father Peregrine	69
66	1980	Magnum, P.I.	Captain J. Cooly	73
67	1981	Falcon Crest	Arthur Masefield	55
68	1984	Hot Pursuit		50
69	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Edwin Dupont	75
70	1984	Tales from the Darkside	Dr. Fenner	72
71	1984	Tales from the Darkside	Sir Edmund Halley	72
72	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Paris Inspector Hugues Panassié	75
73	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Judge Lambert	75
74	1985	A Death in California	Van Niven	15
75	1985	The Twilight Zone	(segment "The Star")	78
76	1986	Matlock	Pastor James Hubert	71
77	1986	L.A. Law	Dr. Aaron Pierce	71
78	1987	I'll Take Manhattan	Mr. Amberville	64
79	1987	Friday the 13th: The Series	Asteroth	73
80	1988	Monsters		71
81	1990	Law & Order	Nathan Fogg	74
82	1990	Law & Order	Philip Woodleigh	74
83	1990	Law & Order	Larry Weber	74
84	1990	Against the Law		60
85	1993	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	Kovat	79
86	1993	The X-Files	Senator Albert Sorenson	84
87	1993	Frasier	Trevor Ainsley	77
88	1996	Floating Palaces	Self - Narrator (voice)	0