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