Fritz Weaver

Born: 1926-01-19

Fritz William Weaver (January 19, 1926 − November 26, 2016) was an American actor in television, stage, and motion pictures. He portrayed Dr. Josef Weiss in the 1978 epic television drama Holocaust, for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. In cinema, he made his debut in the film Fail Safe (1964) and also appeared in Marathon Man (1976), Creepshow (1982), and The Thomas Crown Affair (1999). Among many television roles, he performed in the movie The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975). He also worked in science fiction and fantasy, especially in television series and movies like The Twilight Zone, 'Way Out, Night Gallery, The X-Files, The Martian Chronicles, and Demon Seed.


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Creepshow

as Dexter Stanley (segment "The Crate")
Released: 1982-11-10

Five tales in the style of classic '50s horror comics, involving a murdered man emerging from...

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The Thomas Crown Affair

as John Reynolds
Released: 1999-08-06

A very rich and successful playboy amuses himself by stealing artwork, but may have met his...

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Demon Seed

as Alex Harris
Released: 1977-04-07

A scientist creates Proteus, an organic supercomputer with artificial intelligence which becomes...

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Fail Safe

as Col. Cascio
Released: 1964-10-07

Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of...

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Marathon Man

as Professor Biesenthal
Released: 1976-10-08

A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving...

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Black Sunday

as FBI Agent Sam Corley
Released: 1977-04-01

An Israeli anti-terrorist agent must stop a disgruntled Vietnam vet cooperating in a Black...

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This Must Be the Place

as Cheyenne's Father (voice)
Released: 2011-08-24

A bored, retired rock star sets out to find his father's tormentor, an ex-Nazi war criminal who...

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We'll Never Have Paris

as Phillipe
Released: 2014-10-01

Quinn, a neurotic man, is diagnosed with a harmless eye condition and soon after his life...

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Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

as Hugo Black
Released: 2013-10-04

Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into...

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Nightkill

as Herbert Childs
Released: 1980-12-18

The wife of a wealthy industrialist finds herself caught-up in a web of intrigue & murder...

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Power

as Wallace Furman
Released: 1986-01-31

Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the...

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The Big Fix

as Oscar Procari Sr.
Released: 1978-10-06

Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a...

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Under Siege

as Bernard Hughes
Released: 1986-02-09

Terrorists launch an attack against the USA. Their first strike is by a suicide squad that...

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Broken Trust

as Lionel Nash
Released: 1995-08-06

A scrupulously honest judge finds he's a pawn in a federal sting to ferret out corrupt members...

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My Name Is Bill W.

as uncredited
Released: 1989-04-30

Based on the true story of Bill W. (James Woods), a successful stock broker whose life falls...

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The Crucible

as Reverend Hale
Released: 1967-05-04

Landmark TV adaptation of the Arthur Miller play. Nominated for 3 Emmy awards.

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To Trap a Spy

as Andrew Vulcan
Released: 1964-01-01

The men from U.N.C.L.E. are off to Africa to stop the assassination of a president.

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The Day of the Dolphin

as Harold DeMilo
Released: 1973-12-19

Dr. Jake Terrell, who has been training a pair of dolphins for many years, has had a...

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Citizen Cohn

as Sen. Everett Dirksen
Released: 1992-08-22

As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from...

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Tales from the Darkside

as Dr. Fenner
Released: 1990-11-29

A compilation of episodes from the classic '80s horror anthology TV series "Tales From The...

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The Borgia Stick

as Anderson
Released: 1967-02-25

A suburban couple discovers that they are pawns for a powerful crime syndicate. They try to...

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The Power and the Glory

as uncredited
Released: 1963-05-31

Based on Graham Greene's novel about a flawed but devoted priest in 1930s Mexico who attempts to...

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Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women

as Father Theas (segment "Woman on a Bicycle")
Released: 1997-10-05

First in a series of anthology films dealing with Christians who put their lives on the line to...

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Blind Spot

as Simon
Released: 1993-05-02

Tragedy befalls Congresswoman Nell Harrington and her family when her son-in-law dies in a car...

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The Congressman

as Harlan Lantier
Released: 2016-04-09

Maine Congressman Charlie Winship has had a bad day. After being caught on video failing to...

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Captains Courageous

as Harvey Cheyne, Sr.
Released: 1977-12-04

A spoiled little rich boy learns what life is really like after he falls overboard in the middle...

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Spring Awakening

as Captain Von Koster
Released: 1994-11-06

The failing economic fortunes of a small turn-of-the-century Nebraska town interrupt a...

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Jaws of Satan

as Pater Tom Farrow
Released: 1981-07-24

A preacher whose ancestors were Druids battles Satan, who has taken the form of a huge snake.

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Company of Killers

as John Shankalien
Released: 1970-08-26

A gunman working for a crime ring is hunted by both the police and his employers after a cop is...

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A Walk in the Spring Rain

as Roger Meredith
Released: 1970-06-17

A sophisticated, middle-aged grandmother, wed to a New York law professor, falls in love with a...

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'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2020-01-28

Film critic J. Hoberman discusses the best-selling 1962 novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey...

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Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

as Osiris
Released: 1983-11-16

As the Metropolitan Museum of Art closes, Big Bird decides to leave his Sesame Street friends...

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Ironclads

as John Ericsson
Released: 1991-03-11

Ironclads is a 1991 made-for-television movie produced by Ted Turner's TNT company about the...

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The Legend of Lizzie Borden

as Mr. Andrew Borden
Released: 1975-02-10

A dramatization of the famous 1893 Massachusetts trial of the woman accused of murdering her...

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The Snoop Sisters

as Anton de Tourolet
Released: 1972-12-18

A spinster and her widowed sister, who are the authors of murder-mystery novels, try to track...

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Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2000-10-31

Documentary featuring interviews with director Sidney Lumet, "Fail-Safe" (2000) producer George...

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Berlin Affair

as Joe Mallicent
Released: 1970-11-02

Spy suspense drama set in 1960's Berlin. Intrigue and double-cross lead Killian on a twisting...

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Heat of Anger

as Vincent Kagel
Released: 1972-03-03

A woman attorney and her young associate defend a wealthy contractor accused of murdering an...

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See China and Die

as Poston
Released: 1981-12-09

A maid who reads detective stories finds herself embroiled in a real life mystery involving her...

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The Hearst and Davies Affair

as Arthur Beal
Released: 1985-01-14

Dramatization of the scandalous, long-time love affair between the powerful but married...

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Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust

as Self
Released: 2004-01-01

Daniel Anker’s 90-minute documentary takes on over 60 years of a very complex subject:...

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The Guns of August

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1964-12-24

Traces the origins and actions of World War I, from the funeral of Britain's King Edward VII to...

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Antigone

as Creon
Released: 1974-02-13

A 1974 PBS production of Jean Anouilh's 1944 play "Antigone" adapted from the original Sophocles.

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Children of Divorce

as Eli Sorenson
Released: 1980-11-24

The conflict and separation of their parents and the impact on four youngsters from three...

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Alice in Wonderland

as Caterpillar
Released: 1983-10-03

From the elaborate Broadway revival of the 1932 Eva Le Gallienne/Florida Friebus production...

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Jane Eyre

as uncredited
Released: 1961-04-27

This live hour long show has Young Jane Eyre, fresh from the orphanage looking forward to her...

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A Touch of the Poet

as Cornelius Melody
Released: 1974-01-02

Cornelius "Con" Melody is an Irish tavern keeper in New England who lives in reverence of his...

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Dan August: Once Is Never Enough

as Dr. Michael Serling
Released: 1980-01-01

Lt. Dan August is a homicide detective in his hometown of Santa Luisa, California. In this...

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Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer

as Narrator
Released: 1990-07-02

Documentary about the life and work of film director Preston Sturges.

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The Maltese Bippy

as Mischa Ravenswood
Released: 1969-06-18

A man buys a house and comes to believe that not only is the house haunted by werewolves, but a...

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Maid in America

as Jonas
Released: 1982-09-22

An unemployed worker answers a personal ad for a housekeeper to a crusading female lawyer, and...

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The Book of Murder

as Henry
Released: 1974-03-19

Much-married and once successful writer Henry T. Aythecliff, now heavily in debt, summons his...

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Unsung Heroes of Pearl Harbor

as uncredited
Released: 2001-05-27

Documentary of the little-known Americans who defended Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

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The Three Little Pigs

as uncredited
Released: 1991-01-01

Three pig brothers set out on their own, but only one manages to survive his encounters with a...

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The Spirit of Pittsburgh

as Narrator
Released: 1989-01-01

THE SPIRIT OF PITTSBURGH celebrates the human achievement of a city's continuing Renaissance. It...

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The X-Files

as Senator Albert Sorenson
First aired: 1993-09-10

The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files:...

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L.A. Law

as Dr. Aaron Pierce
First aired: 1986-09-15

L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from...

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

as Kovat
First aired: 1993-01-03

At Deep Space Nine, a space station located next to a wormhole in the vicinity of the liberated...

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The Twilight Zone

as uncredited
First aired: 1985-09-27

This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original...

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Magnum, P.I.

as uncredited
First aired: 1980-12-11

A private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a...

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The Love Boat

as Mr. Weatherby
First aired: 1977-09-24

Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or...

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Hawaii Five-O

as Dr. Harvey Danworth
First aired: 1968-09-20

Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and...

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Quincy, M.E.

as Sen. William Pike
First aired: 1976-10-03

Quincy, M.E. is an American television series from Universal Studios pert in several of the...

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Murder, She Wrote

as Edwin Dupont
First aired: 1984-09-30

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life...

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Murder, She Wrote

as Judge Lambert
First aired: 1984-09-30

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life...

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Murder, She Wrote

as Paris Inspector Hugues Panassié
First aired: 1984-09-30

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life...

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The Twilight Zone

as William Sturka
First aired: 1959-10-02

A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science...

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The Twilight Zone

as Chancellor
First aired: 1959-10-02

A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science...

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Tales of the Unexpected

as Princey
First aired: 1979-03-24

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and...

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The Name of the Game

as Col. Walter Scharz
First aired: 1968-09-20

The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and...

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The Big Valley

as Burke Jordan
First aired: 1965-09-15

The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15,...

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The Big Valley

as Hebron Grant
First aired: 1965-09-15

The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15,...

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Tales from the Darkside

as Dr. Fenner
First aired: 1984-09-30

Tales from the Darkside is an anthology horror TV series created by George A. Romero, each...

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Tales from the Darkside

as Sir Edmund Halley
First aired: 1984-09-30

Tales from the Darkside is an anthology horror TV series created by George A. Romero, each...

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The F.B.I.

as Steven Colton
First aired: 1965-09-19

The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was...

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The F.B.I.

as John Thomas Whiting
First aired: 1965-09-19

The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was...

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The F.B.I.

as Paul Winters
First aired: 1965-09-19

The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was...

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The F.B.I.

as Charles Ridgeway
First aired: 1965-09-19

The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was...

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Frasier

as Trevor Ainsley
First aired: 1993-09-16

After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a...

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Studio One

as George Hanley
First aired: 1948-11-07

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher...

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Studio One

as George
First aired: 1948-11-07

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher...

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Law & Order

as Nathan Fogg
First aired: 1990-09-13

In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing...

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Law & Order

as Philip Woodleigh
First aired: 1990-09-13

In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing...

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Law & Order

as Larry Weber
First aired: 1990-09-13

In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing...

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Night Gallery

as Dr. Mazi
First aired: 1970-12-16

Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a...

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Mission: Impossible

as Imre Rogosh
First aired: 1966-09-17

Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by...

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Mission: Impossible

as Erik Hagar
First aired: 1966-09-17

Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by...

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Mission: Impossible

as Emil Skarbeck
First aired: 1966-09-17

Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by...

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Mission: Impossible

as George Berlinger
First aired: 1966-09-17

Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by...

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12 O'Clock High

as Col. Peter Raff
First aired: 1964-09-18

This series chronicles the adventures--in the air and on the ground--of the men of the 918th...

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The Streets of San Francisco

as Ted Whitlock
First aired: 1972-09-23

Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate...

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Cain's Hundred

as Martin Weir
First aired: 1961-09-19

A former underworld lawyer goes to work for the Federal Government, determined to bring 100 top...

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Friday the 13th: The Series

as Asteroth
First aired: 1987-10-03

Micki and Ryan with the help of their friend Jack try to recover cursed antiques so they can...

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Armstrong Circle Theatre

as Milovan Djilas
First aired: 1950-06-06

Armstrong Circle Theatre is an American anthology drama television series which ran from 1950 to...

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The Mod Squad

as John Palmer
First aired: 1968-09-24

The Mod Squad was the enormously successful groundbreaking "hippie" undercover cop show that ran...

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Falcon Crest

as uncredited
First aired: 1981-12-04

Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for...

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The New Breed

as Arthur Grissom
First aired: 1961-10-03

The New Breed is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from October 3, 1961 to June...

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Combat!

as Major Chaplain Ernest Miller
First aired: 1962-10-02

Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The...

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Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law

as Dr. Martin Cohen
First aired: 1971-09-16

Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law is an American legal drama, jointly created by David Victor and...

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The Fugitive

as Joe Tucker
First aired: 1963-09-17

Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route...

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The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

as Andrew Vulcan
First aired: 1964-09-22

Agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin work for a secret intelligence service working under the...

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The Great Adventure

as Colonel Thomas Rose
First aired: 1963-09-27

The Great Adventure is a historical anthology series that appeared on CBS for the 1963-1964...

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Great Performances

as Creon
First aired: 1971-01-28

The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse...

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Great Performances

as Caterpillar
First aired: 1971-01-28

The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse...

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Mannix

as Dr. Cameron McKenzie
First aired: 1967-09-16

Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS....

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Mannix

as William Avery
First aired: 1967-09-16

Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS....

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Ironside

as Paul Friedland
First aired: 1967-03-28

When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of...

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Matlock

as Pastor James Hubert
First aired: 1986-03-03

Matlock is an American television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role of...

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Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee
First aired: 1956-04-01

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award,...

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Dr. Kildare

as Arthur Hobler
First aired: 1961-09-27

The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession,...

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The Invaders

as Deputy Ambassador Peter Borke
First aired: 1967-01-10

The Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to...

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Cannon

as uncredited
First aired: 1971-09-14

Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26,...

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The Defenders

as Leo Graves
First aired: 1961-09-16

The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed...

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The Defenders

as Vincent Kayle
First aired: 1961-09-16

The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed...

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Rawhide

as Jonathan Damon
First aired: 1959-01-09

The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across...

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Barnaby Jones

as Jason Matthews
First aired: 1973-01-28

Barnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as...

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Barnaby Jones

as Laurence Sheffield
First aired: 1973-01-28

Barnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as...

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Felony Squad

as uncredited
First aired: 1966-09-12

Twenty-year veteran Detective Sergeant Sam Stone is paired with rookie Briggs in a large Western...

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Room 222

as uncredited
First aired: 1969-09-11

Room 222 is an American comedy-drama television series produced by 20th Century Fox Television....

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Omnibus

as uncredited
First aired: 1952-11-09

Omnibus is an American, commercially sponsored, educational television series.

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Dr. Burnham
First aired: 1951-12-24

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...

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Gunsmoke

as Marshal Burl Masters
First aired: 1955-09-10

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman...

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Monsters

as uncredited
First aired: 1988-10-22

Monsters is a syndicated horror anthology series which originally ran from 1988 to 1991 and...

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The Asphalt Jungle

as uncredited
First aired: 1961-04-02

Police adventure series set in a modern American metropolis, concerning the problems of a...

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Petrocelli

as Colonel William Fletcher
First aired: 1974-09-11

Petrocelli is an American legal drama which ran for two seasons on NBC from September 11, 1974...

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Against the Law

as uncredited
First aired: 1990-09-23

Against the Law is an American dramedy television series that aired on the Fox network from...

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Wonder Woman

as Dr. Solano
First aired: 1975-11-07

With the strength of Hercules, the wisdom of Athena, the speed of Mercury and the beauty of...

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The Outcasts

as uncredited
First aired: 1968-09-23

The Outcasts is an American Western genre television series, appearing on ABC in the 1968-69...

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The Martian Chronicles

as Father Peregrine
First aired: 1980-01-15

The Martian Chronicles deals with the exploration of Mars and the inhabitants there.

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Holocaust

as Dr. Josef Weiss
First aired: 1978-04-16

Berlin, Germany, 1935. The day Karl Weiss, a Jewish painter, and Inga Helms, a Christian woman,...

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Dan August

as Dr. Michael Serling
First aired: 1970-09-23

Dan August is a Quinn Martin crime drama series which aired on ABC from 1970-1971. The series...

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I'll Take Manhattan

as Mr. Amberville
First aired: 1987-03-01

I'll Take Manhattan is a 1987 American television miniseries, adapted from Judith Krantz's novel...

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A Death in California

as Van Niven
First aired: 1985-05-12

A Beverly Hills socialite embarks on a love/hate relationship with a psychotic businessman who...

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Hot Pursuit

as uncredited
First aired: 1984-09-22

Hot Pursuit is a short-lived American television series starring Kerrie Keane and Eric...

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Kung Fu

as Hillquist
First aired: 1972-10-14

The adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in...

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Floating Palaces

as Self - Narrator (voice)
First aired: 1996-04-21

Queen Mary, Normandie, Mauretania: These great ocean liners of the Atlantic were the largest and...

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