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