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.

All movies available from Fritz Weaver

Movies unavailable from Fritz Weaver

See China and Die

Poston

Movie 1981

The Power and the Glory

Movie 1963

The Three Little Pigs

Movie 1991

To Trap a Spy

Andrew Vulcan

Movie 1964

The Snoop Sisters

Anton de Tourolet

Movie 1972

The Spirit of Pittsburgh

Narrator

Movie 1989

We'll Never Have Paris

Phillipe

Movie 2014

Demon Seed

Alex Harris

Movie 1977

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust

Self

Movie 2004

The Legend of Lizzie Borden

Mr. Andrew Borden

Movie 1975

Battles That Doomed Hitler

Narrator

Movie

Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'

Self (archive footage)

Movie 2000

'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War

Self (archive footage)

Movie 2020

A Walk in the Spring Rain

Roger Meredith

Movie 1970

Man From a Missing Land

Narrator

Movie 1961

Nightkill

Herbert Childs

Movie 1980

Antigone

Creon

Movie 1974

Pointman

Jason

Movie 1994

Jane Eyre

Movie 1961

Blind Spot

Simon

Movie 1993

The Book of Murder

Henry

Movie 1974

Maid in America

Jonas

Movie 1982

Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Osiris

Movie 1983

The Maltese Bippy

Mischa Ravenswood

Movie 1969

The Hearst and Davies Affair

Arthur Beal

Movie 1985

Broken Trust

Lionel Nash

Movie 1995

Under Siege

Bernard Hughes

Movie 1986

Shock-A-Bye Baby

Movie 1973

Berlin Affair

Joe Mallicent

Movie 1970

George Romero's Golden Tales 3

Movie

Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer

Narrator

Movie 1990

Children of Divorce

Eli Sorenson

Movie 1980

Spring Awakening

Captain Von Koster

Movie 1994

The Crucible

Reverend Hale

Movie 1967

Tales from the Darkside

Dr. Fenner

Movie 1990

Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women

Father Theas (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")

Movie 1997

The Guns of August

Narrator (voice)

Movie 1964

Captains Courageous

Harvey Cheyne, Sr.

Movie 1977

Unsung Heroes of Pearl Harbor

Movie 2001

My Name Is Bill W.

Movie 1989

A Touch of the Poet

Cornelius Melody

Movie 1974

Hunter

Cirrak

Movie 1973

Tv series unavailable from Fritz Weaver

Magnum, P.I.

Captain J. Cooly, USN

Tv 1980

The Twilight Zone

Tv 1985

The Martian Chronicles

Father Peregrine

Tv 1980

Omnibus

Tv 1952

Room 222

Tv 1969

Cannon

Tv 1971

Monsters

Tv 1988

Felony Squad

Tv 1966

The Outcasts

Tv 1968

Banyon

Whitney Pemberton

Tv 1972

Against the Law

Tv 1990

Hot Pursuit

Tv 1984

CBS Playhouse

Tv 1966

Holocaust

Dr. Josef Weiss

Tv 1978

The Asphalt Jungle

Tv 1961

The Name of the Game

Walter Scharz

Tv 1968

The Bell Telephone Hour

Self - Narrator

Tv 1959

Armstrong Circle Theatre

Milovan Djilas

Tv 1950

Floating Palaces

Self - Narrator (voice)

Tv 1996

Tony Awards

Self - Nominee

Tv 1956

Tony Awards

Self - Memoriam (archive footage)

Tv 1956