Fritz Weaver
Fritz Weaver was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States on January 19th, 1926 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 90, Fritz Weaver biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Fritz William Weaver (January 19, 1926 – November 26, 2016) was an American actor in television, stage, and film, perhaps best known for his role as Dr. Byron.
Josef Weiss was a member of the Berlin Holocaust memorialization film festival, 1978.
He is best known for his film debut (1964), as well as Marathon Man (1976), Creepshow (1982), and The Thomas Crown Affair (1999).
He appeared in two seminal projects: The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975) and the mini-series Holocaust (1978), for which Weaver was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.
He was best known for his work in science fiction and fantasy, particularly in television shows and films like The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, The Martian Chronicles, and Demon Seed, as well as narrated educational television programs.
Early life
Weaver was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on January 19, 1926, the son of Elsa W. Weaver (née Stringaro) and John Carson Weaver. His mother was of Italian descent, and his father was a Pittsburgh social worker with deep American roots. Mary Dodson, his younger sister, was an art director.
Weaver attended the University of Pittsburgh's Fanny Edel Falk Laboratory School as a child, followed by Peabody High School. During WWII, he served in the Civilian Public Service as a conscient critic.
Personal life and death
In 1997, Weaver's second marriage was to actress Rochelle Oliver. His first marriage resulted in divorce. On November 26, 2016, at the age of 90, he died at his home in New York, New York.
Career
Weaver had worked in various occupations before turning to acting in the early 1950s. He first appeared on television in 1956 for an episode of The United States Steel Hour. During the next four decades, Weaver continued to act in television. In the episode "A Passage of Saints" in 1969, Hebron Grant, a Mormon married to two people, appeared as Hebron Grant on The Big Valley. He has appeared in several Mission Impossible episodes.
He appeared in the made-for-TV films Holocaust (1978) and The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975), in which he played Andrew Borden. Michael Moriarty, the former's co-star, received an Emmy nomination for the actor; the former received the award.
Weaver received the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play, as well as the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Achievement in Child's Play (1970). The Chalk Garden (Tony nomination and Theatre World Award winner), All American, Baker Street, Absurd Person Singular, “The Price,” Love Letters, and The Crucible were among his Broadway credits. He appeared in Burnt Piano for the HB Playwrights Theatre off-Broadway, and in a television version of Norman Corwin's The World of Carl Sandburg.
Weaver has also appeared in motion pictures, mainly as a supporting actor. He appeared in such films as Fail-Safe (1964), as a lead FBI agent in an anti-terrorism campaign, and as a scholar advising the protagonist, "those people" (1996), as a scientist in a crate, and Thomas Crown Affair (1999). He appeared in The Day of the Dolphin (1973), Demon Seed (1977), The Big Fix (1978), and Sidney Lumet's Power (1986). Weaver began as a voice actor, giving narration for History Channel programs beginning in 1995. Weaver made a "secret decision to resign" after his third appearance on Law & Order in 2005.
Weaver was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2010. He came out of retirement to appear in This Must Be the Place (2011), narrating Sean Penn's protagonist's deceased father. He went on to give prominent supporting roles in Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013) and the theatrically released We'll Never Have Paris (2014) and The Congressman (2016).