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