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