1. Fritz Weaver appeared in over 170 theatre, television, and film productions in a career spanning nearly 60 years.
21 Facts About Fritz Weaver
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Fritz Weaver was well-known as a Shakespearean, and for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in the musical Baker Street.
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Fritz 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.
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Fritz Weaver was 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, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and The X-Files.
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Fritz Weaver's mother was of Italian descent and his father was a social worker from Pittsburgh with deep American roots.
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Fritz Weaver attended the Fanny Edel Falk Laboratory School at the University of Pittsburgh as a child, followed by Peabody High School.
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Fritz Weaver served in the Civilian Public Service as a conscientious objector during World War II.
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Fritz Weaver's first acting role for television came in 1956 for an episode of The United States Steel Hour.
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Fritz Weaver continued to act in television during the next four decades.
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Fritz Weaver appeared in the made-for-TV movies Holocaust and The Legend of Lizzie Borden in which he played Andrew Borden.
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Fritz Weaver earned an Emmy nomination for the former; the award went to his co-star Michael Moriarty.
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Fritz Weaver won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance for the Broadway play Child's Play.
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Fritz Weaver 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.
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Fritz Weaver acted in motion pictures, generally as a supporting player.
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Fritz Weaver appeared in such movies as Fail-Safe, Marathon Man, Black Sunday, Creepshow, and John McTiernan's remake of The Thomas Crown Affair.
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Fritz Weaver had roles in The Day of the Dolphin, Demon Seed, The Big Fix, and Sidney Lumet's Power.
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In 2010, Fritz Weaver was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
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Fritz Weaver went on to give prominent supporting performances in the Emmy-nominated television film Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight and the theatrically released We'll Never Have Paris, The Cobbler, and The Congressman.
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Fritz Weaver's brother was the illustrator Robert Weaver, and his younger sister was art director Mary Dodson.
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Fritz Weaver had two children from his first marriage, Lydia and Anthony.
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Fritz Weaver died at his home in New York City on November 26,2016, at the age of 90.