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Fritz William Weaver (January 19, 1926 − November 26, 2016) was an American actor. He appeared in over 170 theatre, television, and film productions in a career spanning nearly 60 years.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Weaver won the 1970 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance for his performance as Jerome Malley in the original Broadway production of Child's Play, and was nominated for Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for The Chalk Garden (1958). He was also well-known as a Shakespearean, and for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in the musical Baker Street.<ref name=":0" />

On screen, he made his film debut in Sidney Lumet's Fail Safe (1964), and appeared in Marathon Man (1976), Black Sunday (1977), Demon Seed (also 1977), Creepshow (1982), and The Thomas Crown Affair (1999).

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.<ref name="Fritz Weaver Biography">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was also 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. He also narrated many educational television programs.

Early lifeEdit

Weaver was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on January 19, 1926,<ref name=NYTObit /> the son of Elsa W. Weaver (née Stringaro) and John Carson Weaver.<ref name="Fritz Weaver Biography"/> His mother was of Italian descent and his father was a social worker from Pittsburgh with deep American roots.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Weaver attended the Fanny Edel Falk Laboratory School<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> at the University of Pittsburgh as a child, followed by Peabody High School. He served in the Civilian Public Service as a conscientious objector during World War II.

CareerEdit

Template:More citations needed Following the war, Weaver worked at various jobs before turning to acting in the early 1950s. His first acting role for television came in 1956 for an episode of The United States Steel Hour. Weaver continued to act in television during the next four decades. In 1969, he appeared as Hebron Grant, a Mormon married to two women, on The Big Valley in the episode "A Passage of Saints." He also appeared in several episodes of Mission Impossible.

Weaver also appeared in the made-for-TV movies Holocaust (1978) and The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975) in which he played Andrew Borden. He earned an Emmy nomination for the former; the award went to his co-star Michael Moriarty.

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 (1970). His other Broadway credits included The Chalk Garden (Tony nomination and Theatre World Award win), All American, Baker Street, Absurd Person Singular, “The Price,” Love Letters, and The Crucible. He 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.

Weaver also acted in motion pictures, generally as a supporting player. He appeared in such movies as Fail-Safe (1964; as a jingoist and increasingly unstable U.S. Air Force colonel, ashamed of his foreign-born and alcoholic parents, whom he refers to as "those people"), Marathon Man (1976; as a professor advising the protagonist, a graduate student), Black Sunday (1977; as the lead FBI agent in an anti-terrorism effort), Creepshow (1982; as a scientist who discovers a monster in a crate), and John McTiernan's remake of The Thomas Crown Affair (1999). He also had roles in The Day of the Dolphin (1973), Demon Seed (1977), The Big Fix (1978), and Sidney Lumet's Power (1986). Beginning in 1995, Weaver worked primarily as a voice actor, providing narration for programs on the History Channel. After making his third guest appearance on Law & Order in 2005,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Weaver made a "secret decision to retire."<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

In 2010, Weaver was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Shortly thereafter, he came out of retirement to make an uncredited cameo in This Must Be the Place (2011), voicing the deceased father of Sean Penn's protagonist. He went on to give prominent supporting performances in the Emmy-nominated television film Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013) and the theatrically released We'll Never Have Paris (2014), The Cobbler (2014), and The Congressman (2016).

Personal lifeEdit

His brother was the illustrator Robert Weaver, and his younger sister was art director Mary Dodson.<ref name="thr">Template:Cite news</ref> Via his sister, he was the brother-in-law to actor Jack Dodson.

Weaver was married twice. His first marriage, to actress Sylvia Short, lasted from 1953 to 1979, and ended in divorce. His second marriage, to actress Rochelle Oliver, lasted from 1997 until his death in 2016. He had two children from his first marriage, Lydia and Anthony.

Fritz Weaver died at his home in New York City on November 26, 2016, at the age of 90.<ref name=NYTObit>Template:Cite news</ref>

Select filmographyEdit

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Awards and nominationsEdit

Award Year Category Work Result
Clarence Derwent Award 1955 Best Supporting Male The White Devil Template:Won
Drama Desk Award 1970 Outstanding Performance Child's Play Template:Won
1980 Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play The Price Template:Nom
Drama-Logue Award 1981 Outstanding Performance A Tale Told Template:Won
Grammy Award 2001 Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording The Complete Shakespeare Sonnets Template:Nom
Jeff Award 2004 Actor in a Principal Role in a Play Trying Template:Won
Primetime Emmy Award 1978 Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Holocaust Template:Nom
Theatre World Award 1956 Template:N/A The Chalk Garden Template:Won
Tony Award 1956 Best Featured Actor in a Play Template:Nom
1970 Best Actor in a Play Child's Play Template:Won

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