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.
Movie | Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | Self (archive footage) | 2004-07-25 |
Movie | Something Is Out There | Commissioner Estabrook | 1988-05-08 |
Movie | The Ladies | Jerry | 1987-06-26 |
Movie | Nuts | Francis MacMillan | 1987-11-20 |
Movie | Assassin | Calvin Lantz | 1986-03-19 |
Movie | Answers | Ted Talbot (Segment "Twinkle, Twinkle") | 1985-01-01 |
Movie | Half Nelson | Harrison | 1985-03-24 |
Movie | In Like Flynn | Col. Harper | 1985-08-14 |
Movie | Wild Geese II | Robert McCann | 1985-10-18 |
Movie | Getting Physical | Hugh Gibley | 1984-03-20 |
Movie | No Man's Land | Will Blackfield | 1984-05-27 |
Movie | Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land | Felix | 1983-02-27 |
Movie | Shooting Stars | Woodrow Norton | 1983-07-28 |
Movie | Wrong Is Right | Harvey | 1982-04-16 |
Movie | Who Dares Wins | General Ira Potter | 1982-08-26 |
Movie | Not Just Another Affair | Professor Wally Dawson | 1982-10-01 |
Movie | Don't Go to Sleep | Dr. Cole | 1982-12-10 |
Movie | S.O.B. | Ben Coogan | 1981-07-01 |
Movie | The Two Lives of Carol Letner | Ed Leemans | 1981-10-14 |
Movie | All Stars | Harry Stabling | 1980-01-16 |
Movie | Sunday Lovers | Henry Morrison (segment "The French Method") | 1980-10-31 |
Movie | Private Benjamin | Col. Clay Thornbush | 1980-10-06 |
Movie | Gardenia | Tony Caruso | 1979-05-05 |
Movie | 10 | Hugh | 1979-10-05 |
Movie | The Streets of L.A. | Ralph Salkin | 1979-11-13 |
Movie | Courage fuyons | Charley | 1979-10-17 |
Movie | Casey's Shadow | Mike Marsh | 1978-01-01 |
Movie | The Young Runaways | Fred Lockhart | 1978-05-28 |
Movie | Death Steps in the Dark | Inspector | 1977-02-17 |
Movie | Madame Claude | Howard | 1977-05-11 |
Movie | The Choirboys | Deputy Chief Riggs | 1977-12-23 |
Movie | The Accuser | Le cadre américain | 1977-09-07 |
Movie | Midway | Admiral Jack Fletcher | 1976-06-18 |
Movie | Hit Squad | Mr. Douglas | 1976-10-29 |
Movie | Death Stalk | Hugh Webster | 1975-01-21 |
Movie | The Dangerous Mission | Sergeant John Lewis | 1975-04-22 |
Movie | Murder or Mercy | Dr. Eric Stoneman | 1974-04-10 |
Movie | Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia | Sappensly | 1974-08-01 |
Movie | Double Indemnity | Edward Norton | 1973-10-13 |
Movie | Cutter | Meredith | 1972-01-26 |
Movie | Macédoine | Sanderberg | 1971-01-01 |
Movie | $ | Attorney | 1971-12-15 |
Movie | Thief | James Calendar | 1971-10-09 |
Movie | The Great White Hope | Dixon | 1970-10-11 |
Movie | The Movie Murderer | Karel Kessler | 1970-02-02 |
Movie | Hauser's Memory | Dorsey | 1970-11-24 |
Movie | The Big Bounce | Bob Rodgers | 1969-03-05 |
Movie | Manon 70 | Ravaggi | 1968-02-21 |
Movie | Every Man Is My Enemy | Tony Costa | 1967-01-01 |
Movie | Don't Make Waves | Rod Prescott | 1967-06-20 |
Movie | The Dirty Dozen | General Denton | 1967-06-15 |
Movie | The Silencers | Sam Gunther | 1966-02-18 |
Movie | Harper | Dwight Troy | 1966-02-22 |
Movie | The Hired Killer | Clint Harris | 1966-03-25 |
Movie | Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round | Milo Stewart | 1966-10-12 |
Movie | The Sandpiper | Ward Hendricks | 1965-06-23 |
Movie | Hysteria | Chris Smith | 1965-04-01 |
Movie | The Third Day | Dom Guardiano | 1965-08-04 |
Movie | The Stripper | Ricky Powers | 1963-06-19 |
Movie | The Nun and the Sergeant | Sgt. McGrath | 1962-01-01 |
Movie | 12 Angry Men | Juror 12 | 1957-04-10 |
Movie | Highway 301 | William "Bill" Phillips | 1950-12-01 |
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