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
Place of birth
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Birthday
1/19/1926
The Thomas Crown Affair
6.7
Fail Safe
7.8
See China and Die
0
Marathon Man
7.2
The Borgia Stick
7.8
The Power and the Glory
0
The Three Little Pigs
0
To Trap a Spy
5.5
The Snoop Sisters
0
The Spirit of Pittsburgh
0
We'll Never Have Paris
4.9
Demon Seed
5.9
Black Sunday
6.7
This Must Be the Place
7
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
6.5
The Legend of Lizzie Borden
6.6
Ironclads
8
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
0
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
0
A Walk in the Spring Rain
5.9
Company of Killers
4
Man From a Missing Land
6
Nightkill
5.2
Antigone
0
Pointman
6.5
Jane Eyre
0
Blind Spot
6
Jaws of Satan
5.1
Alice in Wonderland
8
The Book of Murder
0
The Day of the Dolphin
5.8
Maid in America
0
The Big Fix
5.7
Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
6.5
Heat of Anger
0
The Maltese Bippy
5.2
The Hearst and Davies Affair
3.8
Broken Trust
5.2
Creepshow
6.9
Under Siege
7.5
Shock-A-Bye Baby
0
The Cobbler
5.9
Berlin Affair
0
Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer
6
Children of Divorce
6
Spring Awakening
0
The Crucible
3.5
The Congressman
6.3
Tales from the Darkside
6.8
Power
6
Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women
7
The Guns of August
0
Captains Courageous
6
Dan August: Once Is Never Enough
4
Unsung Heroes of Pearl Harbor
0
Citizen Cohn
6.3
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
6.4
My Name Is Bill W.
6.5
A Touch of the Poet
0
Hunter
0