Bruce Weitz

Biography: Bruce Weitz

A wiry, reliable character actor who first caught the attention of television audiences with his Emmy-winning role as Detective Mick Belker on Steven Bochco's gritty police drama Hill Street Blues, Bruce Weitz crafted a successful career in both low-budget features and small-screen dramas. The Norwalk, CT, native trained at both Minneapolis' Guthrie Theater and Louisville's Actors Theater after earning graduate and undergraduate degrees from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and it wasn't long before he set his sights on Broadway. A successful debut opposite George C. Scott in a revival of Death of a Salesman was quickly followed by roles in The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel and Norman, Is That You? Weitz also appeared in 13 New York Shakespeare festivals during the late '70s before moving on to television. Supporting roles in Quincy and Happy Days were followed by performances in such made-for-TV features as Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story and Every Stray Dog and Kid (both 1981). That same year, Weitz joined the cast of Hill Street Blues for the duration of the series and his popular character became a highlight of many episodes. The role propelled Weitz's TV career and the actor did not lack work for the rest of the decade. By the time the '80s gave way to the '90s, Weitz's small-screen feature career was still going strong, and, in 1991, he joined the cast of the popular sitcom Anything but Love for one season. He returned to work with old friend Bochco with short-lived series The Byrds of Paradise in 1994 and appeared as Robert Shapiro in 1995's made-for-TV feature The O.J. Simpson Story. Nurturing a growing feature film career in the late '90s and early 2000s, Weitz later enjoyed roles in such high-profile theatrical releases as Deep Impact (1998) and Half Past Dead (2002), enjoyed a multi-episode run on ER as Alderman John Bright, and graced the casts of features including El Cortez (2005) and The Dukes (2007). ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide less

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El Cortez (2005)
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips Glenn Plummer Bruce Weitz Stephen Purvis James McDaniel
Tags: Post-Noir (Modern Noir) Crime Drama Drama
Length: 94min
An autistic ex-con attempting to readjust to life on the outside finds that the past isn't so easy to escape as he becomes caught in the middle of a deadly triple-cross in director Stephen Purvis' labyrinthine hriller. For five long years Manny (Lou...
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The Metrosexual (2006)
Cast: Colm Meaney Bruce Weitz Adam Kaufman Shaun Benson Nick Paonessa
Tags: Comedy
Length: 84min
Eric Bremer (Shaun Benson) is an LA metrosexual who pays meticulous detail to his manners, personal appearance, and unwavering appreciation for the finer things in life. While looking for love in the city can be a bit of a challenge for even the most...
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No Place Like Home (2001)
Cast: Adrienne Barbeau Judge Reinhold Richard Moll Joanna Pacula Bruce Weitz
Tags: Children's Fantasy Science Fiction Family
Length: 87min
After discovering an alien that just crash landed on Earth, two teenage siblings due the best to keep their extraterrestrial secret under wraps as they help the desperate star man find his way back home. Mel and his brother Mac were simply going about...
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Velocity Trap (1997)
Cast: Craig Wasson Bruce Weitz Phillip J. Roth Jorja Fox Olivier Gruner
Tags: Action Space Adventure Science Fiction Sci-Fi Action
Length: 89min
In this sci-fi adventure, an honest cop is given an assignment that will supposedly keep him out of trouble, but it soon lands him in a maelstrom of deadly danger. In the year 2150, the economic needs of most people on Earth and the surrounding galaxy...
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Half Past Dead (2002)
Cast: Steven Seagal Morris Chestnut Nia Peeples Bruce Weitz Andrew Stevens
Tags: Action Thriller Prison Film Action
Length: 98min
Action hero Steven Seagal goes behind bars -- though don't worry, he isn't really a bad guy -- in this action thriller. Sascha Petrosevitch (Seagal) is an FBI agent working undercover to infiltrate a gangland kingpin's operations. While Petrosevitch...
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Justice for Annie, a Moment of Truth Movie (1996)
Cast: Noel Nosseck Peggy Lipton Susan Ruttan Bruce Weitz Danica McKellar
Tags: Crime Thriller Thriller
Length: min
Following the mysterious death of her 19-year-old daughter, a mother attempts to prove that her killer was the woman who not only took the troubled young divorcee under her wing, but also took out a large life insurance policy upon her. ~ Sandra...
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Legend of the Ruby Silver (1996)
Cast: John Schneider Bruce Weitz Jonathan Jackson Charles Wilkinson Rebecca Jenkins
Tags: Adventure
Length: min
In this adventure, a quartet of dreamers sets out on a search for a famous lost mine. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
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Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story (1997)
Cast: Steven Hilliard Stern Bruce Weitz Michael Murphy Mario Lopez Aki Aleong
Tags: Biopic Drama Sports Drama
Length: 95min
The real-life story of Olympic diver Greg Louganis is chronicled in this made-for-television drama. Mario Lopez stars as Louganis, an adopted child who went through a difficult adolescence, only to emerge as a world-class diver in the 1988 Olympics....
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Prehysteria! 3 (1995)
Cast: Fred Willard Bruce Weitz Julian Breen
Tags: Fantasy Adventure Fantasy
Length: 85min
In this youthful fantasy-adventure a quintet of miniature dinosaurs try to help a nearly bankrupt miniature golf-course owner get back on his financial feet. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
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Sudden Terror: The Hijacking of School #17 (1996)
Cast: Maria Conchita Alonso Dennis Boutsikaris Bruce Weitz Tony Danza Paul Schneider
Tags: Docudrama Drama
Length: min
This made-for-TV melodrama is based on an actual event that had been so thoroughly documented by the news services of the day that one is amazed that any suspense could possibly be engendered. In Dade County, Florida, disgruntled taxpayer Harry Kee...
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