Fritz William Weaver (January 19, 1926 − November 26, 2016) was an American actor. He appeared in over 170 theatre, television, and film productions in a career spanning nearly 60 years.[1][2][3]
Weaver won the 1970 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance for his performance as Jerome Malley in the original Broadway production of Child's Play, and was nominated for Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for The Chalk Garden (1958). He was also well-known as a Shakespearean, and for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in the musical Baker Street.[3]
On screen, he made his film debut in Sidney Lumet's Fail Safe (1964), and appeared in Marathon Man (1976), Black Sunday (1977), Demon Seed (also 1977), Creepshow (1982), and The Thomas Crown Affair (1999).
Weaver portrayed Dr. Josef Weiss in the 1978 television miniseries Holocaust, for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.[4] He was also a fixture as a featured and guest actor on science fiction and fantasy shows, including The Twilight Zone, 'Way Out, Night Gallery, The Martian Chronicles, and The X-Files. He also narrated many educational television programs.
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Fritz William Weaver (January 19, 1926 − November 26, 2016) was an American actor. He appeared in over 170 theatre, television, and film productions in...
Zone, starring Burgess Meredith as Romney Wordsworth, the accused, and FritzWeaver as the Chancellor (and prosecutor). It originally aired on June 2, 1961...
fiction–horror film directed by Donald Cammell. It stars Julie Christie and FritzWeaver. The film was based on the 1973 novel of the same name by Dean Koontz...
murdering her father and stepmother in 1892. It co-stars Katherine Helmond, FritzWeaver, Fionnula Flanagan, and Hayden Rorke. It premiered on ABC on February...
research is funded by the Franklin Foundation, headed by Harold DeMilo (FritzWeaver). An undercover government agent for hire, Curtis Mahoney (Paul Sorvino)...
debut. The film's ensemble cast includes Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, FritzWeaver, Leslie Nielsen, Carrie Nye, E. G. Marshall, and Viveca Lindfors, Ted...
is a 1982 American horror film directed by Bob Claver, and starring FritzWeaver, Gretchen Corbett, Jon Korkes, and Christina Applegate, in her feature...
times. New York: F. Watts. pp. 166–170. ISBN 978-0-531-09784-7. FritzWeaver, FritzWeaver (narrator) (1996). Floating Palaces (TV Documentary). A&E. "Sir...
Knoxville, Tennessee. The film stars Ingrid Bergman and Anthony Quinn, with FritzWeaver, Katherine Crawford, and Virginia Gregg. The music score was by Elmer...
(Roberta Weiss) takes up a room for rent in the house of Dr. Fenner (FritzWeaver), the dean of a local veterinary school. She discovers that her new room...
McDowall, Eve McVeagh, Geraldine Page, Walter Pidgeon, Vincent Price, FritzWeaver and, in her final screen appearance, Paulette Goddard. Predating Murder...
his death in 1972. In 1997, Oliver married actor FritzWeaver. They remained together until Weaver's death in 2016. On April 13, 2024, two days before...
Vincent Jon Voight Jess Walton Lesley Ann Warren Ruth Warrick David Wayne FritzWeaver Richard Webb Judi West Stuart Whitman James Whitmore Johnny Whitaker...
of actor FritzWeaver, died on February 15, 2016. "Jack Dodson". IMDb. Retrieved July 14, 2018. Barnes, Mike (February 21, 2016). "Mary Weaver Dodson,...
Robert Vaughn. It also features Patricia Crowley, William Marshall, FritzWeaver and David McCallum. The film was directed by Don Medford. U.N.C.L.E....
starring Jaclyn Smith, Mike Connors, James Franciscus, Robert Mitchum, FritzWeaver, and Sybil Danning. It follows the wife of a corrupt Phoenix, Arizona...
Street. Sallis was asked by Prince to take the role of Dr. Watson to FritzWeaver's Sherlock Holmes. The show ran for six months on Broadway. Just before...
Koontz's Frankenstein" Demon Seed (1977) – MGM – starring Julie Christie, FritzWeaver, and Robert Vaughn as the voice of Proteus The Passengers (1977) – MGM...
episodes in two different roles), Jack Cassidy, Tony Dow, Vic Tayback, FritzWeaver, Harrison Ford (uncredited role), Clint Howard, Louis Gossett Jr., Sugar...
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