Tony-winning actor Fritz Weaver dies at 90

NEW YORK -- Tony Award-winning character actor Fritz Weaver, who played Sherlock Holmes and Shakespearean kings on Broadway and created memorable roles on TV and film from "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" to "Marathon Man," has died. He was 90.

Weaver died at his New York City home Saturday night, according to his daughter, Lydia Weaver, and son-in-law, Bruce Ostler. No cause was given.

A tall man -- he stood 6-foot-3 -- with a deep, resonant voice, Weaver found parts in every medium, often cast as the aristocratic villain.

Weaver won a Tony in 1970 playing a private-school disciplinarian in the play "Child's Play" and earned an Emmy Award nomination in 1978 as the patriarch of a Jewish family in the TV miniseries "Holocaust."

His other TV credits include guest parts on "Murder, She Wrote," "The Twilight Zone," "Magnum, P.I.," "Matlock," "Gunsmoke," "Falcon Crest" and "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine."

His film work included playing a college professor in "Marathon Man" opposite Dustin Hoffman and an FBI agent in "Black Sunday," among others.