FrameThrower · Actors · Fritz Weaver
Fritz Weaver
4 films · 250 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1976–1999
Born 19 January 1926 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA · died 26 November 2016
Fritz William Weaver 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.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 250 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1976–1999
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play1970
- Theatre World Award1956
How their films are shot
Measured across 250 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Fritz takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 56% of their frames are night, 54% low key — the look of the work Fritz takes.
Time of day
Lighting
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 250 frames from Fritz Weaver's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.