Cast: Fritz Weaver

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Fritz Weaver. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Fail-Safe

1964 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Dan O'Herlihy · Henry Fonda · Walter Matthau · Fritz Weaver

Plot A technical malfunction in the Pentagon's strategic control system causes an erroneous order to be sent to a B-58 squadron on a routine training mission instructing the bombers to fly...

7.6

2K votes

7.6

2K votes

Holocaust (TV Miniseries)

1978 · Series · 475 min. · United States

Direction Marvin J. Chomsky

Cast Michael Moriarty · Joseph Bottoms · Fritz Weaver · James Woods

Plot "Holocaust" follows each member of the Jewish Family Weiss throughout Hitler's reign in Germany. One by one, the family members suffer the horrible fate of extermination under Anti-Semitic Nazi Law...

7.5

2K votes

7.5

2K votes

Marathon Man

1976 · Movie · 125 min. · United States

Direction John Schlesinger

Cast Dustin Hoffman · Laurence Olivier · Roy Scheider · William Devane

Plot As a Columbia University graduate student, Babe Levy (Dustin Hoffman), spends his spare time running in marathons. However, he winds up running for his life when he inadvertently becomes entangled...

7.1

10K votes

7.1

10K votes

The Twilight Zone: Third from the Sun (TV)

1959 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Richard L. Bare

Cast Fritz Weaver · Edward Andrews · Joe Maross · Denise Alexander

Plot William Sturka works as a hydrogen specialist in a highly secure plant. Conditions are tense and there are constant rumors of war. The latest is that it's going to happen...

6.9

188 votes

6.9

188 votes

The Twilight Zone: The Obsolete Man (TV)

1961 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Elliot Silverstein

Cast Burgess Meredith · Fritz Weaver · Josip Elic · Harry Fleer

Plot In a future totalitarian society, a librarian is declared obsolete and sentenced to death.

6.6

111 votes

6.6

111 votes

My Name Is Bill W. (TV)

1989 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Daniel Petrie

Cast James Woods · JoBeth Williams · James Garner · Gary Sinise

Plot Based on the true story of Bill W. (James Woods), a successful stock broker whose life falls apart after the stock crash of the 20's and how he comes to...

6.3

42 votes

6.3

42 votes

Black Sunday

1977 · Movie · 143 min. · United States

Direction John Frankenheimer

Cast Robert Shaw · Bruce Dern · Marthe Keller · Fritz Weaver

Plot An Isreali anti-terrorist agent must stop a disgruntled Vietnam vet cooperating in a plot to commit a terrorist plot at the Super Bowl.

6.2

871 votes

6.2

871 votes

The Legend of Lizzie Borden (TV)

1975 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Paul Wendkos

Cast Elizabeth Montgomery · Fionnula Flanagan · Ed Flanders · Katherine Helmond

Plot A dramatization of the famous 1893 Massachusetts trial of the woman accused of murdering her father and stepmother with an ax.

6.2

29 votes

6.2

29 votes

Creepshow

1982 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction George A. Romero

Cast Hal Holbrook · Leslie Nielsen · Adrienne Barbeau · Fritz Weaver

Plot Five tales of terror are presented in the gothic style of the old EC comics such as Tales From The Crypt and The Haunt of Fear. The first deals with...

6.2

7K votes

6.2

7K votes

A Walk in the Spring Rain

1970 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Guy Green

Cast Anthony Quinn · Ingrid Bergman · Fritz Weaver · Katharine Crawford

Plot Libby Meredith and her husband Roger, a college professor, have a quiet, comfortable marriage. They journey to the Great Smoky Mountain region of Tennessee, where Roger will spend his sabbatical...

6.0

63 votes

6.0

63 votes

Tales from the Darkside (TV Series)

1984 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Frank de Palma · John Harrison · John Strysik · Theodore Gershuny

Cast Catherine Battistone · John Marzilli · Karen Shallo · Neil Kinsella

Plot TV Series (1984-1988). Each episode of this TV series depicts a short, strange tale...with a twist! With eerie stories vaguely reminiscent of 'The Twilight Zone,' viewers learn to appreciate that...

6.0

88 votes

6.0

88 votes

The Martian Chronicles (TV Miniseries)

1980 · Series · 360 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Rock Hudson · Gayle Hunnicutt · Bernie Casey · Christopher Connelly

Plot From the mind of science-fiction giant Ray Bradbury springs what is perhaps his most epic vision. Capturing mankind's first venture into the colonization of another planetand its tragic first contact...

6.0

231 votes

6.0

231 votes

Demon Seed

1977 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Donald Cammell

Cast Julie Christie · Fritz Weaver · Gerrit Graham · Berry Kroeger

Plot Set in the not-too-distant future, Demon Seed is about a self-thinking computer Proteus (voiced by Robert Vaughn) that takes drastic measures when he suspects that his creators want to shut...

5.9

1K votes

5.9

1K votes

Monsters (TV Series)

1988 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Ernest D. Farino · Bette Gordon · Jeffrey Wolf · Gerald Cotts

Cast John Bolger · Pamela Dean Kelly · John Saxon · Lisa Waltz

Plot A horror anthology show in a similar vein to Tales from the Darkside, it shared the same producer, Richard Rubenstein, and in some ways succeeded the show (which had ended...

5.8

42 votes

5.8

42 votes

Power

1986 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Richard Gere · Julie Christie · Gene Hackman · Kate Capshaw

Plot Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio senator Sam Hastings decides to quit politics,...

5.6

517 votes

5.6

517 votes

The Big Fix

1978 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

5.4

27 votes

5.4

27 votes

Dream West (TV Miniseries)

1986 · Movie · 270 min. · United States

Direction Dick Lowry

Cast Richard Chamberlain · Alice Krige · F. Murray Abraham · René Enríquez

Plot John Charles Fremont, the American adventurer, the free-spirited women who impelled him to dare undreamed-of-feats, and the young nation they helped to shape. The story begins in 1839 when Fremont...

5.3

21 votes

5.3

21 votes

The Day of the Dolphin

1973 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Mike Nichols

Cast George C. Scott · Trish Van Devere · Paul Sorvino · Fritz Weaver

Plot Director Mike Nichols and screenwriter Buck Henry team up again (after collaborating on The Graduate and Catch-22) for this adaptation of Robert Merle's best-selling adventure novel concerning dolphins who become...

5.2

167 votes

5.2

167 votes

The Cobbler

2014 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Tom McCarthy

Cast Adam Sandler · Method Man · Ellen Barkin · Melonie Diaz

Plot A lonely NYC shoe repairman (Adam Sandler) discovers a magical heirloom that allows him to "walk in another man’s shoes," in this charming fantasy co-starring Dustin Hoffman, Steve Buscemi and...

4.7

4K votes

4.7

4K votes

Nightkill

1980 · Movie · 104 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Ted Post

Cast Robert Mitchum · Jaclyn Smith · James Franciscus · Mike Connors

Plot The wife of a wealthy industrialist finds herself caught-up in a web of intrigue & murder which was created by her own deceit. When she tries to escape the results...

4.6

60 votes

4.6

60 votes