Fritz Weaver

Fritz Weaver (b. 1926) is a lean dramatic stage actor who succsessfully transitioned to television and film. His classical theater training (playing everything from Hamlet to Sherlock Holmes) often led to parts as aristocratic tyrants, or men on the edge. He made a cameo appearance in the Sesame Street special Don't Eat the Pictures.

Weaver's Tv career, which has spanned five decades, includes two notable appearances on The Twilight Zone (including the smug totalitarian Chancellor in "The Obsolete Man") Gunsmoke, The Fugitive, Mission: Impossible, Wonder Woman (as the maniacal Dr. Solano in "The Return of Wonder Woman"), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (as galactic attorney Korvat in "Tribunal"), [[Law & Order, and The X-Files. However, his most substantial TV role was as concentration camp prisoner Josef Weiss in the 1978 miniseries Holocaust.

Weaver's film debut came with the 1964 thriller Fail Safe (a less humorous counterpart to Dr. Strangelove), as the erratic Col. Caserio. Subsequent movies ranged from Marathon Man (as Professor Biesenthal) to the exploitative Demon Seed, as a scientist who inadvertantly invents an evil rapist computer, plus a supporting cameo in The Thomas Crown Affair (with [[Pierce Brosnan).