Frederick Weller Quotes (4 Quotes)

His role of Glengarry office manager John Williamson, a sort of cobra but with less warmth, marks Weller's second Broadway success in a row directed by Joe Mantello coming on the heels of his memorable bigoted baseball pitcher Shane Mungit in Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out . It's a great feeling to be in a hit that has won the Tony as Best Play, ... as it is now Best Revival.

To date, Shane Mungit remains Weller's most interesting role. I thought Richard Greenberg did an amazing job of writing such a strangely sympathetic, but dangerous, narrow-minded young man. He was an amazingly complicated character. ... I just worked on the sympathetic part. To me, what made that character wonderful was his intense, emotional need. That was the main challenge.

quite a wild ride. It was great to be with the play as it progressed, and to see all the different flavors of audience that you got.

He was cast as Officer Johnny Sandowski in the 1993-94 ABC series, Missing Persons. ... Daniel J. Travanti, from 'Hill Street Blues,' played the captain of the department. It lasted one season. We limped along, extended six episodes at a time, but it was fun working in Chicago the show's locale for a year.