Fritz Weaver Biography

Upon earning his BA degree from the University of Chicago, Fritz Weaver began his formal acting training at the H-B studios. Paying his dues with such regional stock companies as Virginia's Barter Theatre and Massachussett's Group 20 Players, Weaver made his first off-Broadway appearance in a 1954 production of The Way of the World. His inaugural Broadway effort was 1955's The Chalk Circle. Weaver went on to appear in such classic stage roles as Hamlet and Peer Gynt, and also amassed a remarkable list of film credits, including two Twilight Zone appearances. In 1964, he made his film debut as the unstable Colonel Caserio in the doomsday thriller Fail Safe. The following year, he starred on Broadway in Baker Street, a musicalization of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. In 1970, he won the Tony award for his work as Jerome Malley in Child's Play. Most often cast as aristocratic villains in films (his resemblance to William F. Buckley has not gone unnoticed by producers), Fritz Weaver made his biggest international impact in the sympathetic role of Josef Weiss in the TV miniseries Holocaust (1978). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

• 1. Dexter Stanley: (scared and crying) Let's get the campus police!
  2. Charlie: No! The campus security is no good! If I'm having trouble swallowing this, what the f**k will they think?
  3. Dexter Stanley: I don't know what they would think.
  4. Charlie: They'd think you had been off on a hell of a toot. They'd think that we'd both been off on a hell of a toot! Seeing Tasmanian devils instead of pink elephants.
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