Tony-Winning Broadway and Film Actor Fritz Weaver Is Dead at 90
Source: Playbill
BY ROBERT VIAGAS
He played Sherlock Holmes in the musical Baker Street.
Fritz Weaver, the sharp-featured, Tony-winning actor best remembered on Broadway for his performance as Victorian sleuth Sherlock Holmes in the 1965 musical Baker Street, has died at age 90, according to The New York Times.
Weaver won the 1970 Tony Award as Best Actor in a Play for his performance as a rigid private-school disciplinarian in the drama Child‘s Play.
He also won an Emmy Award for his performance in the NBC miniseries Holocaust as Dr. Josef Weiss, a Jewish man who sees his family rounded up during the Nazi era in Europe and dies in a concentration camp.
Among his 21 Broadway appearances were Enid Bagnold’s The Chalk Garden (1955), the 1962 musical All-American opposite Ray Bolger, Alan Ayckbourn’s 1974 comedy Absurd Person Singular, the 1979 revival of Arthur Miller’s The Price, and, most recently, the 1999 revival of Ring Round the Moon.
Fritz Weaver
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