Fritz Weaver

 ( 1926 Births ) 

Weaver attended the Fanny Edel Falk Laboratory School at the University of Pittsburgh as a child, followed by Peabody High School. He served in the Civilian Public Service as a conscientious objector during World War II.

Weaver also appeared in the made-for-TV movies Holocaust (1978) and The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975) in which he played Andrew Borden. He earned an Emmy nomination for the former; the award went to his co-star Michael Moriarty.

Weaver won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance for the Broadway theatre play Child's Play (1970). His other Broadway credits included The Chalk Garden (Tony nomination and Theatre World Award win), All American, Baker Street, Absurd Person Singular, “The Price,” Love Letters, and The Crucible. He appeared in the off-Broadway play Burnt Piano for the HB Playwrights Theatre, and with Uta Hagen in a television adaptation of Norman Corwin's play The World of Carl Sandburg.

Weaver also acted in motion pictures, generally as a supporting player. He appeared in such movies as Fail-Safe (1964; as a jingoist and increasingly unstable U.S. Air Force colonel, ashamed of his foreign-born and alcoholic parents, whom he refers to as "those people"), Marathon Man (1976; as a professor advising the protagonist, a graduate student), Black Sunday (1977; as the lead FBI agent in an anti-terrorism effort), Creepshow (1982; as a scientist who discovers a monster in a crate), and John McTiernan's remake of The Thomas Crown Affair (1999). He also had roles in The Day of the Dolphin (1973), Demon Seed (1977), The Big Fix (1978), and Sidney Lumet's Power (1986). Beginning in 1995, Weaver worked primarily as a voice acting, providing narration for programs on the History Channel. After making his third guest appearance on Law & Order in 2005, Weaver made a "secret decision to retire."

In 2010, Weaver was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. Shortly thereafter, he came out of retirement to make an uncredited cameo in This Must Be the Place (2011), voicing the deceased father of Sean Penn's protagonist. He went on to give prominent supporting performances in the Emmy-nominated television film Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013) and the theatrically released We'll Never Have Paris (2014), The Cobbler (2014), and The Congressman (2016).

Weaver was married twice. His first marriage, to actress Sylvia Short, lasted from 1953 to 1979, and ended in divorce. His second marriage, to actress Rochelle Oliver, lasted from 1997 until his death in 2016. He had two children from his first marriage, Lydia and Anthony.

Fritz Weaver died at his home in New York City on November 26, 2016, at the age of 90.

• To Trap a Spy (1964) – Andrew Vulcan (archive footage)
• Fail Safe (1964) – Colonel Cascio
• The Borgia Stick (1967) – Anderson
• The Maltese Bippy (1969) – Mischa Ravenswood
• A Walk in the Spring Rain (1970) – Roger Meredith
• The Day of the Dolphin (1973) – Harold DeMilo
• The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975) – Andrew Borden
• Marathon Man (1976) – Professor Biesenthal
• Black Sunday (1977) – Corley
• Demon Seed (1977) – Alex Harris
• Captains Courageous (1977) – Harvey Cheyne Sr.
• The Big Fix (1978) – Oscar Procari Sr.
• The Martian Chronicles (1980) – Father Peregrine
• Nightkill (1980) – Herbert Childs
• Jaws of Satan (1981) – Father Tom Farrow
• Creepshow (1982) – Dexter Stanley (segment "The Crate")
• Power (1986) – Wallace Furman
• The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) – John Reynolds
• This Must Be the Place (2011) – Cheyenne's Father (voice)
• Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013) – Hugo Black
• We'll Never Have Paris (2014) – Phillipe
• The Cobbler (2014) – Mr. Solomon
• The Congressman (2016) – Harlan Lantier (final film role)

• Beyond This Place (1957) – Charlie Castle
• Way Out (1961, Episode: "William and Mary") – Dr. Landy
• The Twilight Zone (1961, Episodes: "Third from the Sun" / "The Obsolete Man") – William Sturka / Chancellor

• The Asphalt Jungle (1961) – Victor Vanda
• "The Defenders - Series 2 Episode 22 The Traitor" (1963) - Vincent Kayle
• Dr. Kildare (1963) – Arthur Hobler
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964) – Andrew Vulcan
• Twelve O'Clock High (1964) – Col. Peter Raff
• Rawhide (1964) – Jonathan Damon
• The Fugitive (1966, Season 3 Episode 28 "A Taste of Tomorrow") – Joe Tucker
• Combat! (1966) – Major Chaplain Ernest Miller
• Gunsmoke (1967) – Marshal Burl Masters
• The Invaders (1967, Episode 30 "The Captive") – Deputy Ambassador Peter Borke
• The Big Valley (1967–1969) – Hebron Grant / Burke Jordan
• ’’Tales of the Unexpected
• Cannon (1971) – "The Nowhere Man" - Leo Kern
• Night Gallery (1971) – Dr. Mazi (segment "A Question of Fear")
• (1966–1971) – George Berlinger / Emil Skarbeck / Erik Hagar / Imre Rogosh
• Mannix (1968–1973) – William Avery / Dr. Cameron McKenzie
• Kung Fu – Hillquist
• Movin' On (TV series) (1974) - Eli Hoffner
• Great Performances (1974) – Creon (Antigone)
• The New Land (1974, Episode: "The Word is: Giving" – unaired)
• The Streets Of San Francisco (1975) – Ted Whitlock
• The New Adventures of Wonder Woman (1977) – Dr. Solano
• Holocaust (1978) – Dr. Josef Weiss
• Hawaii Five-O (1979) – Dr. Harvey Danworth
• The Martian Chronicles (1980) – Father Peregrine
• Magnum, P.I. (1980) – Captain J. Cooly, USN
• Don't Eat the Pictures (1983) – Osiris
• Tales from the Darkside (Episodes: "Comet Watch" (1986), "Inside the Closet" (1984)) – Sir Edmund Halley / Dr. Fenner
• Murder, She Wrote (1984–1987) – Paris Inspector Hugues Panassié / Edwin Dupont / Judge Lambert
• "The Twilight Zone" (1985, Episode 13; segment "The Star") – Father Matthew Karsighan
• Dream West (1986) – Sen. Thomas Hart Benton
• I'll Take Manhattan (1987) – Mr. Amberville
• (1989, in the two-part episode of the third-season opener named "The Prophecies") – Asteroth
• Matlock (1989) – Pastor James Hubert
• All My Children (1992) – Hugo Marick
• (1994, S2:E25 "") – Kovat
• The X-Files (1996) – Senator Albert Sorenson
• Frasier (1998) – Sir Trevor Ainsley
• Law & Order (1991–2005) – Nathan Fogg / Larry Weber / Philip Woodleigh

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