Acting
Robert Webber
Biography
Over his 40-year career as one of Hollywood's veteran character actors, Robert Webber always marked his spot by playing all types of roles and was not stereotyped into playing just one kind of character. Sometimes he even got to play a leading role (see Hysteria (1965)). Webber first started out in small stage shows and a few Broadway plays and served a stint in the army before he landed the role of Juror 12 in 12 Angry Men (1957). He was also known for numerous war films, playing Lee Marvin's general in The Dirty Dozen (1967) or as real-life Admiral Frank J. Fletcher in Midway (1976). Webber's other best known movies include The Great White Hope (1970), Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978), 10 (1979) (as composer Dudley Moore's lyricist partner), Private Benjamin (1980), Wild Geese II (1985) and co-starring with Richard Dreyfuss and Barbra Streisand as prosecutor Francis McMillian in Nuts (1987). In 1989 he died of Lou Gehrig's disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) in Malibu, California, shortly after completing the 1988 TV production Something Is Out There (1988) (TV). He bore a resemblance to character actor Kevin McCarthy.
Movies with Robert Webber
12 Angry Men
1957
Midway
1976
The Dirty Dozen
1967
Harper
1966
10
1979
Private Benjamin
1980
The Silencers
1966
Revenge of the Pink Panther
1978
Who Dares Wins
1982
Wrong Is Right
1982
The Choirboys
1977
S.O.B.
1981
The Sandpiper
1965
Madame Claude
1977
Assassin
1986
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
1974
Wild Geese II
1985
Don't Make Waves
1967
No Man's Land
1984
Flatfoot in Hong Kong
1975
Manon 70
1968
Nuts
1987
Sunday Lovers
1980
All Stars
1980
Answers
1985
Hauser's Memory
1970
Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
1983
Macédoine
1971
Half Nelson
1985
Hit Squad
1976
The Young Runaways
1978
Double Indemnity
1973
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
The Third Day
1965
Courage fuyons
1979
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1971
The Accuser
1977
The Movie Murderer
1970
Casey's Shadow
1978
Shooting Stars
1983
Don't Go to Sleep
1982
The Great White Hope
1970
The Two Lives of Carol Letner
1981
The Big Bounce
1969
The Stripper
1963
Not Just Another Affair
1982
Murder or Mercy
1974
Hysteria
1965
Highway 301
1950
In Like Flynn
1985
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
1966
Death Stalk
1975
Pacific Challenge
1975
The Streets of L.A.
1979
Getting Physical
1984
Thief
1971
The Hired Killer
1966
Gardenia
1979
Every Man Is My Enemy
1967
Cutter
1972
The Ladies
1987
The Nun and the Sergeant
1962
A Statue for "The Sandpiper"
1965
The Dangerous Mission
1975
Death Steps in the Dark
1977
TV Shows with Robert Webber
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
The Rifleman
1958
Mannix
1967
The Fugitive
1963
Ironside
1967
Mission: Impossible
1966
Cannon
1971
The Rockford Files
1974
Quincy, M.E.
1976
Love, American Style
1969
Ben Casey
1961
Moonlighting
1985
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
Thriller
1960
The Defenders
1961
Police Woman
1974
One Step Beyond
1959
Naked City
1958
Kojak
1973
Studio One
1948
Route 66
1960
The Outer Limits
1963
Switch
1975
Suspense
1949
McCloud
1970
Barnaby Jones
1973
The Name of the Game
1968
McMillan & Wife
1971
No Hiding Place
1959
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
Tales of Tomorrow
1951
Stoney Burke
1962
Espionage
1963
Arrest and Trial
1963
The Manhunter
1974
Kaz
1978
Banacek
1972
The Rogues
1964
S.W.A.T.
1975
Banyon
1972
Cover Up
1984
The Magician
1973
The Greatest Show on Earth
1963
Bret Maverick
1981
The Investigators
1961
Search
1972
Darkroom
1981
Hawkins
1973
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
1980
New York Confidential
1959
79 Park Avenue
1977
San Francisco International Airport
1970
Our Miss Pemberton
1957
Janet Dean, Registered Nurse
1954
Out There
1951
Something Is Out There
1988