Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 14, 1924
Died
May 19, 1989
Place of Birth
Santa Ana, California, USA
Credits
124 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Self (archive footage)
Something Is Out There
Commissioner Estabrook
Nuts
Francis MacMillan
The Ladies
Jerry
Assassin
Calvin Lantz
Wild Geese II
Robert McCann
In Like Flynn
Col. Harper
Answers
Ted Talbot (Segment "Twinkle, Twinkle")
Half Nelson
Harrison
Moonlighting
Alexander Hayes
Cover Up
No Man's Land
Will Blackfield
Getting Physical
Hugh Gibley
Shooting Stars
Woodrow Norton
Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
Felix
Don't Go to Sleep
Dr. Cole
Not Just Another Affair
Professor Wally Dawson
Who Dares Wins
General Ira Potter
Wrong Is Right
Harvey
Bret Maverick
Everest Sinclair
Darkroom
Greg Conway
The Two Lives of Carol Letner
Ed Leemans
S.O.B.
Ben Coogan
Sunday Lovers
Henry Morrison (segment "The French Method")
Private Benjamin
Col. Clay Thornbush
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
Herman LaCross
All Stars
Harry Stabling
The Streets of L.A.
Ralph Salkin
Courage fuyons
Charley
10
Hugh
Gardenia
Tony Caruso
Kaz
The Young Runaways
Fred Lockhart
Revenge of the Pink Panther
Philippe Douvier
Casey's Shadow
Mike Marsh
The Choirboys
Deputy Chief Riggs
79 Park Avenue
John Hackson DeWitt
The Accuser
American executive
Madame Claude
Howard
Death Steps in the Dark
Inspector
Hit Squad
Mr. Douglas
Quincy, M.E.
Midway
Admiral Jack Fletcher
Switch
Paul Sinclair
The Dangerous Mission
Sergeant John Lewis
Flatfoot in Hong Kong
Sam Accardo
S.W.A.T.
Death Stalk
Hugh Webster
Pacific Challenge
Narrator
The Rockford Files
Sen. Evan Murdock