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PEOPLE & ARTS Tuesday 29 November 2016
Tony-winner Fritz Weaver, TV and Broadway star, dies at 90

MARK KENNEDY tion in 1978 as the patriarch and a town official in a
AP Entertainment Writer of a Jewish family in the TV 1991 Broadway revival of
NEW YORK (AP) — Tony miniseries “Holocaust.” “The Crucible,” among
Award-winning character His many other TV credits in- others.
actor Fritz Weaver, who clude guest parts on “Mur- “The stage is where I be-
played Sherlock Holmes der, She Wrote,” ‘’The Twi- gan,” Weaver said in 1986.
and Shakespearian kings light Zone,” ‘’Magnum, P.I.” “That’s where I have the
on Broadway while also ‘’Matlock,” ‘’Gunsmoke,” most accumulated experi-
creating memorable roles ‘’Falcon Crest” and “Star ence. Movies and televi-
on TV and film from “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.” sion have always been a
Trek: Deep Space Nine” to His film work included play- means of earning a living.
“Marathon Man,” has died. ing a college professor in And I’m growing more and
He was 90. “Marathon Man” opposite more familiar with the vo-
Weaver died at his New Dustin Hoffman, a FBI agent cabularies of both those
York City home on Satur- in “Black Sunday,” the 2015 things.”
day night, according to his Adam Sandler film “The Born in Pittsburgh, he at-
daughter, Lydia Weaver, Cobbler” and the 2016 film tended the University of
and son-in-law, Bruce Os- “The Congressman,” star- Chicago intending to ma-
tler. No cause was given. ring Treat Williams. In 2013, jor in physics when he was
A tall man — he stood he played Supreme Court cast in the part of Archbish- In this April 19, 1970 file photo, Tony winners, from left, Cleavon
6-foot-3 — who was Justice Hugo Black in HBO’s op Thomas Becket in T.S. El- Little, who won best actor in a musical for “Purlie,” Lauren Bacall,
blessed with a deep, reso- “Muhammad Ali’s Greatest iot’s tragedy “Murder in the won best actress in a musical for “Applause,” Tammy Grimes,
nant voice, Weaver found Fight.” Cathedral.” won best actress for the revival “Private Lives”, and Fritz Weaver,
parts in every medium, of- But his first love was the He later told the Christian won best actor in a dramatic role for “Child’s Play,” pose at the
ten cast as the aristocratic stage. He earned a Tony Science Monitor that play- 24th Annual Tony Awards ceremony in New York.
Associated Press
villain. nomination for his Broad- ing that role changed his
Weaver won a Tony in 1970 way debut in “The Chalk life: “When you play the
playing a private-school Garden” and he went on great roles, you get spoiled course you can’t.” actress Rochelle Oliver in
disciplinarian in the play to play King Henry IV, Peer and think you’ll have a Weaver’s first marriage 1997. She survives him, as
“Child’s Play” and earned Gynt, a singing Holmes in whole career playing noth- to Sylvia Short ended in do his daughter, Lydia,
an Emmy Award nomina- the musical “Baker Street” ing but great roles, and of divorce. He married the and his son, Anthony.q