Place of Birth: Santa Ana, California, USA
Robert Webber
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 | Cast | Year |
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The Dirty Dozen | General Denton | 1967 |
Don't Make Waves | Rod Prescott | 1967 |
Private Benjamin | Col. Clay Thornbush | 1980 |
Revenge of the Pink Panther | Philippe Douvier | 1978 |
Midway | Admiral Jack Fletcher | 1976 |
The Silencers | Sam Gunther | 1966 |
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia | Sappensly | 1974 |
$ | Attorney | 1971 |
Wrong Is Right | Harvey | 1982 |
Harper | Dwight Troy | 1966 |
10 | Hugh | 1979 |
Nuts | Francis MacMillan | 1987 |
Highway 301 | William "Bill" Phillips | 1950 |
Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land | Felix | 1983 |
Wild Geese II | Robert McCann | 1985 |
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round | Milo Stewart | 1966 |
Who Dares Wins | General Ira Potter | 1982 |
Cover Up | Mason Carter | 1984 |
Hysteria | Chris Smith | 1965 |
Double Indemnity | Edward Norton | 1973 |
Don't Go to Sleep | Dr. Cole | 1982 |
The Sandpiper | Ward Hendricks | 1965 |
Death Steps in the Dark | Inspector | 1977 |
The Third Day | Dom Guardiano | 1965 |
Madame Claude | Howard | 1977 |
The Stripper | Ricky Powers | 1963 |
Pacific Challenge | Narrator | 1975 |
Gardenia | Tony Caruso | 1979 |
The Dangerous Mission | Sergeant John Lewis | 1975 |
Death Stalk | Hugh Webster | 1975 |
Thief | James Calendar | 1971 |
Not Just Another Affair | Professor Wally Dawson | 1982 |
The Hired Killer | Clint Harris | 1966 |
The Streets of L.A. | Ralph Salkin | 1979 |
Courage fuyons | Charley | 1979 |
Every Man Is My Enemy | Tony Costa | 1967 |
Manon 70 | Ravaggi | 1968 |
The Two Lives of Carol Letner | Ed Leemans | 1981 |
The Choirboys | Deputy Chief Riggs | 1977 |
The Nun and the Sergeant | Sgt. McGrath | 1962 |
The Big Bounce | Bob Rodgers | 1969 |
The Movie Murderer | Karel Kessler | 1970 |
The Great White Hope | Dixon | 1970 |
Hauser's Memory | Dorsey | 1970 |
Macédoine | Sanderberg | 1971 |
Cutter | Meredith | 1972 |
Murder or Mercy | Dr. Eric Stoneman | 1974 |
Flatfoot in Hong Kong | Sam Accardo | 1975 |
The Accuser | Le cadre américain | 1977 |
Casey's Shadow | Mike Marsh | 1978 |
All Stars | Harry Stabling | 1980 |
Sunday Lovers | Henry Morrison (segment "The French Method") | 1980 |
S.O.B. | Ben Coogan | 1981 |
Shooting Stars | Woodrow Norton | 1983 |
Getting Physical | Hugh Gibley | 1984 |
No Man's Land | Will Blackfield | 1984 |
Answers | Ted Talbot (Segment "Twinkle, Twinkle") | 1985 |
Half Nelson | Harrison | 1985 |
In Like Flynn | Col. Harper | 1985 |
The Ladies | Jerry | 1987 |
The Young Runaways | Fred Lockhart | 1978 |
A Statue for 'The Sandpiper' | Self | 1965 |
Hit Squad | Mr. Douglas | 1976 |
Assassin | Calvin Lantz | 1986 |
12 Angry Men | Juror 12 | 1957 |
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | Self (archive footage) | 2004 | Series | Cast | Year |
Kraft Suspense Theatre | Robert Burke | 1963 |
Quincy, M.E. | 1976 | |
Route 66 | 1960 | |
Moonlighting | Alexander Hayes | 1985 |
The Streets of San Francisco | 1972 | |
Hawkins | Carl Vincent | 1973 |
Kaz | 1978 | |
Naked City | Gordon Lanning | 1958 |
Mannix | 1967 | |
Kojak | David Lawrence | 1973 |
Arrest and Trial | 1963 | |
Studio One | 1948 | |
Cannon | 1971 | |
Cover Up | 1984 | |
Ironside | 1967 | |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Paul Brett | 1955 |
The Greatest Show on Earth | 1963 | |
The Fugitive | Harlan Guthrie | 1963 |
Switch | Paul Sinclair | 1975 |
S.W.A.T. | 1975 | |
Thriller | Arthur Henshaw | 1960 |
Search | 1972 | |
McCloud | 1970 | |
Banyon | 1972 | |
One Step Beyond | Andrew Courtney | 1959 |
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | 1963 | |
No Hiding Place | 1959 | |
Ben Casey | 1961 | |
Suspense | James Forsythe | 1949 |
Robert Montgomery Presents | 1950 | |
The Manhunter | 1974 | |
New York Confidential | 1959 | |
Tales of Tomorrow | 1951 | |
The Rogues | Guy Gabriel | 1964 |
Stoney Burke | 1962 | |
The Defenders | Douglas | 1961 |
The Defenders | Michael Hillyer | 1961 |
The Outer Limits | Ikar | 1963 |
The Defenders | Father Phelps | 1961 |
Out There | 1951 | |
The Magician | Arthur Zellman | 1973 |
Love, American Style | Harris | 1969 |
Robert Montgomery Presents | Philip | 1950 |
Something Is Out There | Commissioner Estabrook | 1988 |
The Name of the Game | William McKendricks | 1968 |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Harrison Fell | 1955 |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Edward Gibson | 1955 |
The Rockford Files | Sen. Evan Murdock | 1974 |
The Rockford Files | Bob Coleman | 1974 |
Studio One | Skeets - Henchman / Bodyguard | 1948 |
Ironside | Sam Burton | 1967 |
The Rockford Files | Roman Clementi | 1974 |
McMillan & Wife | Charles Meridio | 1971 |
Mission: Impossible | Charles Rogan | 1966 |
Quincy, M.E. | Dr. John Franklin | 1976 |
Barnaby Jones | Gene Gates | 1973 |
Banacek | Jerry Brinkman | 1972 |
Police Woman | Julian Lord | 1974 |
The Rifleman | Wes Carney | 1958 |
79 Park Avenue | John Hackson DeWitt | 1977 |
The Rockford Files | Harold Jack Coombs | 1974 |
Bret Maverick | Everest Sinclair | 1981 |