Sunday, November 27, 2016
Fritz Weaver, R. I. P.
The New York Times: 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.
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I hadn't thought about him in years. Didn't realize he was still alive.
Another Sherlock bites the dust. He played Holmes in the original Broadway production of Baker Street, the Musical. I recommend the cast album. sas
Wesver won a Tony for CHILD'S PLAY in 1970. We saw the London production a year later. He wasn't in it.
Sherlock on Broadway, and I seem to recall; he was in an early MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.
Fritz will be missed! Two roles spring to mind: The Chancellor in "The Obsolete Man" episode of THE TWILGHT ZONE (co-starring Burgess Meredith) and Rogosh in the "Operation Rogosh" episode of MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE. Those two shows made me a lifelong fan.
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