Robert Webber
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1924-10-14
Day of Death
1989-05-19 (64 years old)
Place of Birth
Santa Ana, California, USA
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.
Acting
(2004)
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self (archive footage)
(1987)
Nuts
as Francis MacMillan
(1987)
The Ladies
as Jerry
(1986)
Assassin
as Calvin Lantz
(1985)
Wild Geese II
as Robert McCann
(1985)
Half Nelson
as Harrison
(1985)
Answers
as Ted Talbot (Segment "Twinkle, Twinkle")
(1985)
In Like Flynn
as Col. Harper
(1984)
Getting Physical
as Hugh Gibley
(1984)
Cover Up
as Mason Carter
(1984)
No Man's Land
as Will Blackfield
(1983)
(1983)
Shooting Stars
as Woodrow Norton
(1982)
Who Dares Wins
as General Ira Potter
(1982)
Wrong Is Right
as Harvey
(1982)
Not Just Another Affair
as Professor Wally Dawson
(1982)
Don't Go to Sleep
as Dr. Cole
(1981)
S.O.B.
as Ben Coogan
(1981)
The Two Lives of Carol Letner
as Ed Leemans
(1980)
Private Benjamin
as Col. Clay Thornbush
(1980)
Sunday Lovers
as Henry Morrison (segment "The French Method")
(1980)
All Stars
as Harry Stabling
(1979)
10
as Hugh
(1979)
Courage fuyons
as Charley
(1979)
Gardenia
as Tony Caruso
(1979)
The Streets of L.A.
as Ralph Salkin
(1978)
Revenge of the Pink Panther
as Philippe Douvier
(1978)
Casey's Shadow
as Mike Marsh
(1978)
The Young Runaways
as Fred Lockhart
(1977)
Madame Claude
as Howard
(1977)
The Choirboys
as Deputy Chief Riggs
(1977)
The Accuser
as American executive
(1977)
Death Steps in the Dark
as Inspector
(1976)
Midway
as Admiral Jack Fletcher
(1976)
Hit Squad
as Mr. Douglas
(1975)
Flatfoot in Hong Kong
as Sam Accardo
(1975)
The Dangerous Mission
as Sergeant John Lewis
(1975)
Death Stalk
as Hugh Webster
(1975)
Pacific Challenge
as Narrator
(1974)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
as Sappensly
(1974)
Murder or Mercy
as Dr. Eric Stoneman
(1973)
Double Indemnity
as Edward Norton
(1972)
Cutter
as Meredith
(1971)
$
as Attorney
(1971)
Thief
as James Calendar
(1971)
Macédoine
as Sanderberg
(1970)
The Great White Hope
as Dixon
(1970)
The Movie Murderer
as Karel Kessler
(1970)
Hauser's Memory
as Dorsey
(1969)
The Big Bounce
as Bob Rodgers
(1968)
Manon 70
as Ravaggi
(1967)
The Dirty Dozen
as General Denton
(1967)
Don't Make Waves
as Rod Prescott
(1967)
Every Man Is My Enemy
as Tony Costa
(1966)
Harper
as Dwight Troy
(1966)
The Silencers
as Sam Gunther
(1966)
The Hired Killer
as Clint Harris
(1966)
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
as Milo Stewart
(1965)
The Sandpiper
as Ward Hendricks
(1965)
Hysteria
as Chris Smith
(1965)
The Third Day
as Dom Guardiano
(1965)
A Statue for 'The Sandpiper'
as Self
(1963)
The Stripper
as Ricky Powers
(1962)
The Nun and the Sergeant
as Sgt. McGrath
(1957)
12 Angry Men
as Juror 12
(1950)
Highway 301
as William "Bill" Phillips