{"id":44916,"date":"2016-11-28T12:06:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T20:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=44916"},"modified":"2016-11-28T12:06:41","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T20:06:41","slug":"weaver-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2016\/11\/weaver-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"Weaver Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fritz Weaver<\/strong>, who guest-starred on <em>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/em>, has died at the age of ninety.<\/p>\n<p>Trek fans will remember Weaver as Kovat, the Cardassian public conservator who was the legal counsel for Miles O&#8217;Brien in <em>Tribunal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Pittsburgh, Weaver had a long career dating back to the 1950s in both television and the movies. He was still acting; his most recent project was in this year&#8217;s <em>The Congressman<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Weaver received a <em>Tony<\/em> award for his work in <em>Child&#8217;s Play<\/em>, and he was nominated for an <em>Emmy<\/em> for his work on <em>NBC<\/em>&#8216;s 1978 <em>Holocaust<\/em> mini-series, where he played a Jewish doctor eventually sent to Auschwitz.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to<em> Deep Space Nine,<\/em> Weaver also appeared in other sci-fi shows\/movies including <em>The Twilight Zone, Third from the Sun, The X-Files<\/em>, and <em>The Martian Chronicles.<\/em> He guest-starred in many television shows and movies from the late 1950s through this year, and was also seen in films such as <em>Marathon Man, Black Sunday<\/em>, and T<em>he Day of the Dolphin.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Weaver is survived by his wife Rochelle Oliver, daughter Lydia, son Anthony, and a grandson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fritz Weaver, who guest-starred on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, has died at the age&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[6599,9089,9088],"class_list":["post-44916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-cardassian","tag-kovat","tag-weaver"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/FritzWeaverDS9-112816.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/FritzWeaverDS9-112816-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/FritzWeaverDS9-112816.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/FritzWeaverDS9-112816.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/FritzWeaverDS9-112816.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/FritzWeaverDS9-112816.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/FritzWeaverDS9-112816.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/FritzWeaverDS9-112816.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/FritzWeaverDS9-112816.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/FritzWeaverDS9-112816.jpg",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44918,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44916\/revisions\/44918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}