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.

Filmography

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

Appearances as themselves (6)

• 2020'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War — Self (archive footage)
• 2004Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust — Self
• Floating Palaces — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 1961Man from a Missing Land — Self - Narrator (voice)
• The Bell Telephone Hour — Self - Narrator
• Tony Awards — Self - Winner, Self - Memoriam (archive footage)