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