Acting
Fritz Weaver
Born 1926-01-19
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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
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The X-Files
1993
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Law & Order
1990
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The Cobbler
2014
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Frasier
1993
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993
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The Thomas Crown Affair
1999
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The Twilight Zone
1959
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This Must Be the Place
2011
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Marathon Man
1976
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Creepshow
1982
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Filmography & Credits
Complete career catalog (158 titles)
| Poster | Title | Character / Role | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War | Self (archive footage) | Movie | 2020 |
 | The Congressman | Harlan Lantier | Movie | 2016 |
 | We'll Never Have Paris | Phillipe | Movie | 2014 |
 | The Cobbler | Mr. Solomon | Movie | 2014 |
 | Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight | Hugo Black | Movie | 2013 |
 | This Must Be the Place | Cheyenne's Father (voice) | Movie | 2011 |
 | Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust | Self | Movie | 2004 |
 | Unsung Heroes of Pearl Harbor | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2001 |
 | The Thomas Crown Affair | John Reynolds (Golf Buddy) | Movie | 1999 |
 | Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women | Father Theas (segment "Woman on a Bicycle") | Movie | 1997 |
 | Floating Palaces | Self - Narrator (voice) | TV Series | 1996 |
 | Broken Trust | Lionel Nash | Movie | 1995 |
 | George Romero's Golden Tales 3 | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1995 |
 | Spring Awakening | Captain Von Koster | Movie | 1994 |
 | Pointman | Jason | Movie | 1994 |
 | Frasier | Trevor Ainsley | TV Series | 1993 |
 | The X-Files | Senator Albert Sorenson | TV Series | 1993 |
 | Blind Spot | Simon | Movie | 1993 |
 | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | Kovat | TV Series | 1993 |
 | Citizen Cohn | Sen. Everett Dirksen | Movie | 1992 |
 | Ironclads | John Ericsson | Movie | 1991 |
 | The Three Little Pigs | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1991 |
 | Tales from the Darkside | Dr. Fenner | Movie | 1990 |
 | Against the Law | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1990 |
 | Law & Order | Nathan Fogg | TV Series | 1990 |
| Law & Order | Philip Woodleigh | TV Series | 1990 |
| Law & Order | Larry Weber | TV Series | 1990 |
 | Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer | Narrator (voice) | Movie | 1990 |
 | My Name Is Bill W. | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1989 |
 | The Spirit of Pittsburgh | Narrator | Movie | 1989 |
 | Monsters | Mr. Hallet | TV Series | 1988 |
 | Friday the 13th: The Series | Asteroth | TV Series | 1987 |
 | I'll Take Manhattan | Mr. Amberville | TV Series | 1987 |
 | L.A. Law | Dr. Aaron Pierce | TV Series | 1986 |
 | Matlock | Pastor James Hubert | TV Series | 1986 |
 | Under Siege | Bernard Hughes | Movie | 1986 |
 | Power | Wallace Furman | Movie | 1986 |
 | The Twilight Zone | (segment "The Star") | TV Series | 1985 |
 | A Death in California | Van Niven | TV Series | 1985 |
 | The Hearst and Davies Affair | Arthur Beal | Movie | 1985 |
 | Murder, She Wrote | Edwin Dupont | TV Series | 1984 |
 | Tales from the Darkside | Dr. Fenner | TV Series | 1984 |
| Tales from the Darkside | Sir Edmund Halley | TV Series | 1984 |
| Murder, She Wrote | Paris Inspector Hugues Panassié | TV Series | 1984 |
| Murder, She Wrote | Judge Lambert | TV Series | 1984 |
 | Hot Pursuit | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1984 |
 | Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art | Osiris | Movie | 1983 |
 | Alice in Wonderland | Caterpillar | Movie | 1983 |
 | Creepshow | Dexter Stanley (segment "The Crate") | Movie | 1982 |
 | Maid in America | Jonas | Movie | 1982 |
 | Jaws of Satan | Pater Tom Farrow | Movie | 1982 |
 | Falcon Crest | Arthur Masefield | TV Series | 1981 |
 | See China and Die | Poston | Movie | 1981 |
 | Nightkill | Herbert Childs | Movie | 1980 |
| Magnum PI: Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii | Captain Cooly | Movie | 1980 | |
 | Magnum, P.I. | Captain J. Cooly | TV Series | 1980 |
 | Children of Divorce | Eli Sorenson | Movie | 1980 |
 | The Martian Chronicles | Father Peregrine | TV Series | 1980 |
 | Dan August: Once Is Never Enough | Dr. Michael Serling | Movie | 1980 |
 | Tales of the Unexpected | Princey | TV Series | 1979 |
 | The Big Fix | Oscar Procari Sr. | Movie | 1978 |
 | Holocaust | Dr. Josef Weiss | TV Series | 1978 |
 | Captains Courageous | Harvey Cheyne, Sr. | Movie | 1977 |
 | The Love Boat | Mr. Weatherby | TV Series | 1977 |
 | The Return of Wonder Woman | Dr. Solano | Movie | 1977 |
 | Demon Seed | Alex Harris | Movie | 1977 |
 | Black Sunday | FBI Agent Sam Corley | Movie | 1977 |
 | Marathon Man | Professor Biesenthal | Movie | 1976 |
 | Quincy, M.E. | Sen. William Pike | TV Series | 1976 |
 | Wonder Woman | Dr. Solano | TV Series | 1975 |
 | The Legend of Lizzie Borden | Mr. Andrew Borden | Movie | 1975 |
 | Henry James' The Jolly Corner | Spencer Brydon | Movie | 1975 |
 | Petrocelli | Colonel William Fletcher | TV Series | 1974 |
| Give Me Liberty | George Washington | Movie | 1974 | |
 | A Touch of the Poet | Cornelius Melody | Movie | 1974 |
 | The Book of Murder | Henry | Movie | 1974 |
 | Antigone | Creon | Movie | 1974 |
 | The Day of the Dolphin | Harold DeMilo | Movie | 1973 |
| Shock-A-Bye Baby | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1973 | |
 | Rx for the Defense | Dr. Daniel Kemper | Movie | 1973 |
 | Barnaby Jones | Laurence Sheffield | TV Series | 1973 |
| Barnaby Jones | Jason Matthews | TV Series | 1973 |
 | Hunter | Cirrak | Movie | 1973 |
 | The Female Instinct | Anton de Tourolet | Movie | 1972 |
 | Kung Fu | Hillquist | TV Series | 1972 |
 | Delphi Bureau | Vander | TV Series | 1972 |
 | The Streets of San Francisco | Ted Whitlock | TV Series | 1972 |
 | Banyon | Whitney Pemberton | TV Series | 1972 |
 | Heat of Anger | Vincent Kagel | Movie | 1972 |
 | Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law | Dr. Martin Cohen | TV Series | 1971 |
 | Cannon | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1971 |
 | Great Performances | Caterpillar | TV Series | 1971 |
| Great Performances | Creon | TV Series | 1971 |
 | Night Gallery | Dr. Mazi | TV Series | 1970 |
 | Berlin Affair | Joe Mallicent | Movie | 1970 |
 | Dan August | Dr. Michael Serling | TV Series | 1970 |
 | Company of Killers | John Shankalien | Movie | 1970 |
 | A Walk in the Spring Rain | Roger Meredith | Movie | 1970 |
 | Room 222 | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1969 |
 | The Maltese Bippy | Mischa Ravenswood | Movie | 1969 |
 | Hawaii Five-O | Dr. Harvey Danworth | TV Series | 1969 |
 | The Mod Squad | John Palmer | TV Series | 1968 |
 | The Outcasts | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1968 |
 | The Name of the Game | Walter Scharz | TV Series | 1968 |
 | Mannix | William Avery | TV Series | 1967 |
| Mannix | Dr. Cameron McKenzie | TV Series | 1967 |
 | The Crucible | Reverend Hale | Movie | 1967 |
 | Ironside | Paul Friedland | TV Series | 1967 |
 | The Borgia Stick | Anderson | Movie | 1967 |
 | The Invaders | Deputy Ambassador Peter Borke | TV Series | 1967 |
| CBS Playhouse | David Hoffman | TV Series | 1966 | |
 | NET Playhouse | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1966 |
 | Mission: Impossible | Imre Rogosh | TV Series | 1966 |
| Mission: Impossible | Erik Hagar | TV Series | 1966 |
| Mission: Impossible | Emil Skarbeck | TV Series | 1966 |
| Mission: Impossible | George Berlinger | TV Series | 1966 |
 | Felony Squad | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1966 |
 | The F.B.I. | Steven Colton | TV Series | 1965 |
| The F.B.I. | John Thomas Whiting | TV Series | 1965 |
| The F.B.I. | Paul Winters | TV Series | 1965 |
| The F.B.I. | Charles Ridgeway | TV Series | 1965 |
 | The Big Valley | Burke Jordan | TV Series | 1965 |
| The Big Valley | Hebron Grant | TV Series | 1965 |
 | To Trap a Spy | Andrew Vulcan | Movie | 1965 |
 | The Guns of August | Narrator (voice) | Movie | 1964 |
 | Fail Safe | Col. Cascio | Movie | 1964 |
 | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | Andrew Vulcan | TV Series | 1964 |
 | 12 O'Clock High | Col. Peter Raff | TV Series | 1964 |
 | Espionage | Richard Keller | TV Series | 1963 |
 | The Great Adventure | Colonel Thomas Rose | TV Series | 1963 |
 | The Fugitive | Joe Tucker | TV Series | 1963 |
 | The Power and the Glory | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1963 |
 | Combat! | Major Chaplain Ernest Miller | TV Series | 1962 |
 | The New Breed | Arthur Grissom | TV Series | 1961 |
 | Dr. Kildare | Arthur Hobler | TV Series | 1961 |
 | Cain's Hundred | Martin Weir | TV Series | 1961 |
 | The Defenders | Leo Graves | TV Series | 1961 |
| The Defenders | Vincent Kayle | TV Series | 1961 |
 | Jane Eyre | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1961 |
 | The Asphalt Jungle | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1961 |
| Man from a Missing Land | Self - Narrator (voice) | Movie | 1961 | |
 | Festival | Brutus | TV Series | 1960 |
 | The Twilight Zone | William Sturka | TV Series | 1959 |
| The Twilight Zone | Chancellor | TV Series | 1959 |
 | The Bell Telephone Hour | Self - Narrator | TV Series | 1959 |
 | Rawhide | Jonathan Damon | TV Series | 1959 |
 | DuPont Show of the Month | Charlie Castle | TV Series | 1957 |
| DuPont Show of the Month | Barsad | TV Series | 1957 |
 | Tony Awards | Self - Winner | TV Series | 1956 |
| Tony Awards | Self - Memoriam (archive footage) | TV Series | 1956 |
 | Gunsmoke | Marshal Burl Masters | TV Series | 1955 |
 | Omnibus | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1952 |
| Omnibus | Newspaper Photographer | TV Series | 1952 |
 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Dr. Burnham | TV Series | 1951 |
 | Armstrong Circle Theatre | Milovan Djilas | TV Series | 1950 |
 | Studio One | George Hanley | TV Series | 1948 |
| Studio One | George | TV Series | 1948 |
 | Battles That Doomed Hitler | Narrator (voice) | Movie | — |