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Fritz Weaver
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Fritz Weaver (born January 19, 1926) is a prolific, Tony Award-winning American actor and voice actor.
Weaver was born on January 19, 1926 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA and attended Peabody High School. He served in Civilian Public Service as a conscientious objector during World War II, breaking into acting in the early 1950s. His first television role came in 1956, on an episode of The United States Steel Hour. He would continue to appear on television during the next four decades, appearing on such shows as The Twilight Zone, Dr. Kildare, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Rawhide, Mission: Impossible, Combat!, Gunsmoke, Mannix, Kung Fu, Hawaii Five-O, Magnum P.I., Murder, She Wrote, Matlock, Law & Order, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (in the episode "Tribunal"), The X-Files, and Frasier.
In 1970 he won a Tony Award for his performance in Child's Play
He appeared in many films, generally as a supporting actor. Of these, the most well-known are probably Marathon Man, Black Sunday and Creepshow, and the 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair. Other notable movies include The Day of the Dolphin (1973), and Fail-Safe (1964).
Since 1995, Weaver has worked primarily as a voice actor, providing narration for programs on the History Channel. Weaver is currently starring in a revival of Harley Granville-Barker's play The Voysey Inheritance at the Atlantic Theatre Company in Manhattan.
- Fritz Weaver at the Internet Movie Database
- Fritz Weaver article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki.