Stanley Weiman, an actor who played Tevye in “Fiddler on the Roof” and was a “pillar” of Everyman Theatre, died of heart failure Jan. 8 at the Edenwald Retirement Community in Towson. He was 90.

Born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Baltimore, he was the son of Frank and Ida Weiman. He was a 1951 Baltimore City College graduate and was glee club president.

“He had a beautiful baritone voice,” said his wife, Martha Meier Weiman.

He joined local acting groups and was among the first to perform at Center Stage. He was also active in the Vagabond Players but gained recognition when he performed as Tevye in “Fiddler on the Roof” at Toby’s Dinner Theatre in Columbia.

“We’d be out and people came up and said, ‘Oh, my god, it’s Tevye,” said his wife, “I’d say, no, it’s not, it’s Stan.”

He joined his wife and her parents at their Mount Vernon business, Drapery Contractors, Inc., which made window and bed treatments for interior designers. Mr. Weiman had been the firm’s president.

“Stan was creative and great at conception and design,” she said. “He never touched a sewing machine. But he had the vision with custom window treatments.”

Mr. Weiman became a founding member of Everyman Theatre in 1990 and performed in numerous productions.

“His face lit up when he got his professional actor’s union card,” said Vince Lancisi, Everyman’s founder and artistic director. “He’d been acting locally for years and I cast him in a new play, ‘Playback’ by Joseph Johnson. We immediately connected, professionally and personally.”

He played Colonel Pickering in “Pygmalion” and Simon Stimson in “Our Town.”

“His work ethic was herculean, ” said Mr. Lancisi. “He began his work days in the drapery business at 8 a.m. and we would be rehearsing until 10 or 11 at night.”

He also appeared in “Much Ado About Nothing,” “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and “The Crucible.”

“When casting a play, if you ever needed a patriarch figure, it would be Stan,” said Mr. Lancisi.

Everyman Theatre’s mezzanine, where art exhibits are held, is named after Mr. Weiman and his wife.

In addition to his wife of 71 years, Martha Meier Weiman, who worked with him in the family business, survivors include his three daughters, Robin Weiman, of Baltimore; Judy Moseley, of Attleboro, Massachusetts; and Carol Noel, of Baltimore; a brother, Sidney Weiman, of Baltimore; a sister, Ida Samet, of Baltimore; five grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

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