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Fritz William Weaver (born January 19, 1926) is an American stage and screen actor. Weaver has a long and wide variety of performances in television, stage, and motion picture acting and is well known for his roles in two seminal television films, the mini-series ''Holocaust'' and the made-for-television movie ''The Legend of Lizzie Borden''. He is also known for his work in science fiction and fantasy, especially in television series and movies like ''The Twilight Zone'', ''Night Gallery'', ''The X-Files'', ''The Martian Chronicles'' and ''Demon Seed''. Weaver continues to work as a narrator for educational TV programs. ==Life and career== Weaver was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Elsa W. (née Stringaro) Weaver and John Carson Weaver. His mother was of Italian descent and his father was a social worker from Pittsburgh with deep American roots. Weaver attended the Fanny Edel Falk Laboratory School〔http://www.pittmag.pitt.edu/winter2007/feature3.html〕 at the University of Pittsburgh as a child, followed by Peabody High School. He served in Civilian Public Service as a conscientious objector during World War II. Following the war, Weaver worked at various jobs before turning to acting in the early 1950s. His first acting role for television came in 1956 for an episode of ''The United States Steel Hour''. Weaver continued to act in television during the next four decades. Weaver also appeared in the made-for-TV movies ''The Legend of Lizzie Borden'' (1975) and ''Holocaust'' (1978), earning Emmy nominations for both. Weaver won the Tony Award for "Best Actor in a Play" and the Drama Desk Award for "Outstanding Performance" for the Broadway play ''Child's Play'' (1970). His other credits in Broadway theatre have included ''The Chalk Garden'' (Tony nomination and Theatre World Award win), ''All American'', ''Baker Street'', ''Absurd Person Singular'', ''Love Letters'', and ''The Crucible''. He appeared in the off-Broadway play ''Burnt Piano'' for the HB Playwrights Theatre, and with Uta Hagen in a television adaptation of Norman Corwin's play ''The World of Carl Sandburg'' Weaver has also acted in motion pictures, generally as a supporting player. He has appeared in such movies as ''Fail-Safe'' (1964; as a jingoist and increasingly unstable U.S. Air Force colonel, ashamed of his foreign-born and alcoholic parents, which he refers to as "those people"), ''Marathon Man'' (1976), ''Black Sunday'' (1977) and ''Creepshow'' (1982), and John McTiernan's remake of ''The Thomas Crown Affair'' (1999). He also had roles in ''The Day of the Dolphin'' (1973), ''Demon Seed'' (1977), ''The Big Fix'' (1978), and Sidney Lumet's ''Power'' (1986). Since 1995, Weaver has worked primarily as a voice actor, providing narration for programs on the History Channel. In 2010, he was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Theater Hall of Fame Ceremony, Honoring Linda Lavin, Brian Dennehy, Michael Blakemore, Presented Jan. 24 )〕 Weaver has been married to actress Rochelle Oliver since 1997. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fritz Weaver」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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