Fritz Weaver, Tony-Winning Character Actor, Dies at 90

[Dwyer]

Fritz Weaver, a Tony Award-winning character actor who played a German Jewish doctor slain by the Nazis in the 1978 mini-series “Holocaust” and an Air Force colonel who becomes increasingly unstable as the nation faces a nuclear crisis in the 1964 movie “Fail Safe,” died on Saturday at his home in Manhattan. He was 90 . . .

Mr. Weaver won a Tony in 1970 for his role in Robert Marasco’s drama “Child’s Play,” about the malevolent environment at an exclusive Roman Catholic school for boys . . .

But he reveled in performing Shakespearean roles.

“The old boy — he’s the one who makes the maximum challenge to the actor,’’ he said of Shakespeare. “That high charge on all the lines that he writes — you’ve got to measure up. You can’t just saunter into that stuff; you’ve got to bring your whole life into it.”

nytimes.com/2016/11/27/movies/fritz-weaver-tony-winning-character-actor-dies-at-90.html?_r=0

JNS.org — A recently deceased actor who starred in a widely viewed 1970’s television drama about the Holocaust used to say that his role in the show deeply affected his worldview and, though raised Catholic, he felt that he “became a Jew” through the experience.

Fritz Weaver, who died Nov. 26 in New York City at age 90, appeared in NBC‘s four-part miniseries “Holocaust,” which chronicled the fate of Europe’s Jews under Hitler through the fictional lives of a Nazi war criminal and a German Jewish family. Weaver played the family patriarch, Dr. Josef Weiss . . .

He told the Tribune that the drama showed “what man does to his fellow man — that cannot be forgotten, ever,” but also gave a message of hope. “[A]t the end of this film, after the destruction and horror, and pain, the Jews survived. Man survives… and that must not ever be forgotten either.”

https://www.algemeiner.com/2016/12/06/the-late-fritz-weaver-star-of-famed-holocaust-tv-miniseries-said-he-became-a-jew-from-the-experience/

Just found out that Mr. Weaver passed away.

 

[jaimeleglise]

May he rest in peace.

 

[tawny]

Praying for the repose of his soul & for his family.

 

[meltzerboy]

He was a very fine actor. Viewers of The Twilight Zone will remember Fritz Weaver for two excellent performances, one of which was together with Burgess Meredith in The Obsolete Man, which I happened to see on MeTV just yesterday. Prayers for the repose of his soul and for his family.

 

[tomarin]

I always enjoyed his roles, whether they were large or small.

 

[Arizona_Mike]

He had to be one of the hardest working actors in show business - he seemed to be in everything.

God bless and keep him.