Fritz Weaver
Birthday: 1926-01-19
Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography: 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.
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The Thomas Crown Affair
Bored billionaire executive Thomas Crown entertains himself by stealing a Monet from a reputed museu...
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Fail Safe
Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. T...
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See China and Die
A maid who reads detective stories finds herself embroiled in a real-life mystery involving her dead...
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Marathon Man
A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his br...
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The Borgia Stick
A suburban couple discovers that they are pawns for a powerful crime syndicate. They try to break aw...
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The Power and the Glory
Based on Graham Greene's novel about a flawed but devoted priest in 1930s Mexico who attempts to per...
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The Three Little Pigs
Three pig brothers set out on their own, but only one manages to survive his encounters with a hungr...
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To Trap a Spy
The men from U.N.C.L.E. are off to Africa to stop the assassination of a president....
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The Female Instinct
A spinster and her widowed sister, both authors of murder mystery novels, try to track down the kill...
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The Spirit of Pittsburgh
THE SPIRIT OF PITTSBURGH celebrates the human achievement of a city's continuing Renaissance. It is ...
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We'll Never Have Paris
Quinn, a neurotic man, is diagnosed with a harmless eye condition and soon after his life spirals ou...
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Demon Seed
A scientist creates Proteus, an organic supercomputer with artificial intelligence which becomes obs...
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Black Sunday
An Israeli anti-terrorist agent must stop a disgruntled Vietnam vet cooperating in a Black September...
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This Must Be the Place
A bored, retired rock star sets out to find his father's tormentor, an ex-Nazi war criminal who is a...
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Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Daniel Anker’s 90-minute documentary takes on over 60 years of a very complex subject: Hollywood’s c...
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The Legend of Lizzie Borden
A dramatization of the famous 1893 Massachusetts trial of the woman accused of murdering her father ...
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Ironclads
Ironclads is a 1991 made-for-television movie produced by Ted Turner's TNT company about the events ...
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Battles That Doomed Hitler
From the Nazi Blitzkrieg in 1939 to the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941, the Axis tide rolled unchecked....
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Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
Documentary featuring interviews with director Sidney Lumet, "Fail-Safe" (2000) producer George Cloo...
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'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
Film critic J. Hoberman discusses the best-selling 1962 novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler o...
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A Walk in the Spring Rain
A sophisticated, middle-aged grandmother, wed to a New York law professor, falls in love with a down...
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Company of Killers
A gunman working for a crime ring is hunted by both the police and his employers after a cop is murd...
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Man from a Missing Land
A documentary set in Tibet around the time of the Chinese annexation....
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Nightkill
The wife of a wealthy industrialist finds herself caught-up in a web of intrigue & murder which ...
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Antigone
A 1974 PBS production of Jean Anouilh's 1944 play "Antigone" adapted from the original Sophocles....
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Pointman
Arbitrageur Constantine "Connie" Harper is sentenced to a maximum security prison for fraud and deck...
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Jane Eyre
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happi...
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Blind Spot
Tragedy befalls Congresswoman Nell Harrington and her family when her son-in-law dies in a car accid...
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Jaws of Satan
A preacher whose ancestors were Druids battles Satan, who has taken the form of a huge snake....
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Alice in Wonderland
From the elaborate Broadway revival of the 1932 Eva Le Gallienne/Florida Friebus production comes a ...
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The Book of Murder
Much-married and once successful writer Henry T. Aythecliff, now heavily in debt, summons his three ...
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The Day of the Dolphin
A marine biologist teaches his dolphins to communicate in English but shady characters plan to kidna...
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Maid in America
An unemployed worker answers a personal ad for a housekeeper to a crusading female lawyer, and then ...
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The Big Fix
Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political sm...
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Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
As the Metropolitan Museum of Art closes, Big Bird decides to leave his Sesame Street friends behind...
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Heat of Anger
A woman attorney and her young associate defend a wealthy contractor accused of murdering an ironwor...
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The Maltese Bippy
A man buys a house and comes to believe that not only is the house haunted by werewolves, but a fami...
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The Hearst and Davies Affair
Dramatization of the scandalous, long-time love affair between the powerful but married publisher an...
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Broken Trust
A scrupulously honest judge finds he's a pawn in a federal sting to ferret out corrupt members of th...
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Creepshow
Five grisly tales from a 1950s-style comic, including a murdered father rising from beyond, a bizarr...
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Under Siege
Terrorists launch an attack against the USA. Their first strike is by a suicide squad that detonates...
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The Cobbler
Max Simkin repairs shoes in the same New York shop that has been in his family for generations. Dise...
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Berlin Affair
Spy suspense drama set in 1960's Berlin. Intrigue and double-cross lead Killian on a twisting path t...
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Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer
Documentary about the life and work of film director Preston Sturges....
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Children of Divorce
The conflict and separation of their parents and the impact on four youngsters from three socially d...
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Spring Awakening
The failing economic fortunes of a small turn-of-the-century Nebraska town interrupt a blossoming ro...
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The Crucible
Landmark TV adaptation of the Arthur Miller play. Nominated for 3 Emmy awards....
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The Congressman
Maine Congressman Charlie Winship has had a bad day. After being caught on video failing to stand an...
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Tales from the Darkside
A compilation of episodes from the classic '80s horror anthology TV series "Tales From The Darkside"...
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Power
Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the coun...
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Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women
First in a series of anthology films dealing with Christians who put their lives on the line to help...
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The Guns of August
Traces the origins and actions of World War I, from the funeral of Britain's King Edward VII to the ...
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Captains Courageous
A spoiled little rich boy learns what life is really like after he falls overboard in the middle of ...
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Dan August: Once Is Never Enough
Lt. Dan August is a homicide detective in his hometown of Santa Luisa, California. In this reediting...
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Unsung Heroes of Pearl Harbor
Documentary of the little-known Americans who defended Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941....
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Citizen Cohn
As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his p...
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Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the...
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My Name Is Bill W.
Based on the true story of Bill W. (James Woods), a successful stock broker whose life falls apart a...
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A Touch of the Poet
Cornelius "Con" Melody is an Irish tavern keeper in New England who lives in reverence of his former...
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Hunter
A fatal crash at a racetrack injures a government agent and exposes an enemy brainwashing scheme....
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Henry James' The Jolly Corner
Expatriate Spencer Brydon returns to his now-empty childhood home, and finds himself obsessed with w...
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The Return of Wonder Woman
Diana returned to Paradise Island after a 35 year absence and, slowly aging due to her Amazon nature...
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Rx for the Defense
The story of Zach Clinton, a doctor turned attorney who works for a law firm that specializes in cas...
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Give Me Liberty
A man's adventures in colonial America take him from the edge of the wilderness to meetings with the...
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