Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
October 14, 1924
Place of Birth:
Santa Ana, California, USA
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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
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | Self (archive footage) |
| 1987 | Nuts | Francis MacMillan |
| 1987 | The Ladies | Jerry |
| 1986 | Assassin | Calvin Lantz |
| 1985 | Wild Geese II | Robert McCann |
| 1985 | In Like Flynn | Col. Harper |
| 1985 | Answers | Ted Talbot (Segment "Twinkle, Twinkle") |
| 1985 | Half Nelson | Harrison |
| 1984 | Cover Up | Mason Carter |
| 1984 | Getting Physical | Hugh Gibley |
| 1984 | No Man's Land | Will Blackfield |
| 1983 | Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land | Felix |
| 1983 | Shooting Stars | Woodrow Norton |
| 1982 | Wrong Is Right | Harvey |
| 1982 | Who Dares Wins | General Ira Potter |
| 1982 | Don't Go to Sleep | Dr. Cole |
| 1982 | Not Just Another Affair | Professor Wally Dawson |
| 1981 | The Two Lives of Carol Letner | Ed Leemans |
| 1981 | S.O.B. | Ben Coogan |
| 1980 | Private Benjamin | Col. Clay Thornbush |
| 1980 | All Stars | Harry Stabling |
| 1980 | Sunday Lovers | Henry Morrison (segment "The French Method") |
| 1979 | 10 | Hugh |
| 1979 | Gardenia | Tony Caruso |
| 1979 | The Streets of L.A. | Ralph Salkin |
| 1979 | Courage fuyons | Charley |
| 1978 | Revenge of the Pink Panther | Philippe Douvier |
| 1978 | Casey's Shadow | Mike Marsh |
| 1978 | The Young Runaways | Fred Lockhart |
| 1977 | Death Steps in the Dark | Inspector |
| 1977 | Madame Claude | Howard |
| 1977 | The Choirboys | Deputy Chief Riggs |
| 1977 | The Accuser | American executive |
| 1976 | Midway | Admiral Jack Fletcher |
| 1976 | Hit Squad | Mr. Douglas |
| 1975 | Pacific Challenge | Narrator |
| 1975 | The Dangerous Mission | Sergeant John Lewis |
| 1975 | Death Stalk | Hugh Webster |
| 1975 | Flatfoot in Hong Kong | Sam Accardo |
| 1974 | Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia | Sappensly |
| 1974 | Murder or Mercy | Dr. Eric Stoneman |
| 1973 | Double Indemnity | Edward Norton |
| 1972 | Cutter | Meredith |
| 1971 | $ | Attorney |
| 1971 | Thief | James Calendar |
| 1971 | Macédoine | Sanderberg |
| 1970 | The Great White Hope | Dixon |
| 1970 | The Movie Murderer | Karel Kessler |
| 1970 | Hauser's Memory | Dorsey |
| 1969 | The Big Bounce | Bob Rodgers |
| 1968 | Manon 70 | Ravaggi |
| 1967 | The Dirty Dozen | General Denton |
| 1967 | Don't Make Waves | Rod Prescott |
| 1967 | Every Man Is My Enemy | Tony Costa |
| 1966 | The Silencers | Sam Gunther |
| 1966 | Harper | Dwight Troy |
| 1966 | Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round | Milo Stewart |
| 1966 | The Hired Killer | Clint Harris |
| 1965 | Hysteria | Chris Smith |
| 1965 | The Sandpiper | Ward Hendricks |
| 1965 | The Third Day | Dom Guardiano |
| 1965 | A Statue for 'The Sandpiper' | Self |
| 1963 | The Stripper | Ricky Powers |
| 1962 | The Nun and the Sergeant | Sgt. McGrath |
| 1957 | 12 Angry Men | Juror 12 |
| 1950 | Highway 301 | William "Bill" Phillips |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Something Is Out There | Commissioner Estabrook |
| 1985 | Moonlighting | Alexander Hayes |
| 1984 | Cover Up | |
| 1981 | Bret Maverick | Everest Sinclair |
| 1978 | Kaz | |
| 1977 | 79 Park Avenue | John Hackson DeWitt |
| 1976 | Quincy, M.E. | |
| 1976 | Quincy, M.E. | Dr. John Franklin |
| 1975 | Switch | Paul Sinclair |
| 1975 | S.W.A.T. | |
| 1974 | The Manhunter | |
| 1974 | The Rockford Files | Sen. Evan Murdock |
| 1974 | The Rockford Files | Bob Coleman |
| 1974 | The Rockford Files | Roman Clementi |
| 1974 | Police Woman | Julian Lord |
| 1974 | The Rockford Files | Harold Jack Coombs |
| 1973 | Hawkins | Carl Vincent |
| 1973 | Kojak | David Lawrence |
| 1973 | The Magician | Arthur Zellman |
| 1973 | Barnaby Jones | Gene Gates |
| 1973 | Barnaby Jones | Maxwell Strager |
| 1972 | The Streets of San Francisco | |
| 1972 | Search | |
| 1972 | Banyon | |
| 1972 | Banacek | Jerry Brinkman |
| 1971 | Cannon | |
| 1971 | McMillan & Wife | Charles Meridio |
| 1970 | McCloud | |
| 1969 | Love, American Style | Harris |
| 1968 | The Name of the Game | William McKendricks |
| 1967 | Ironside | |
| 1967 | Ironside | Sam Burton |
| 1967 | Mannix | Tom Carlson |
| 1966 | Mission: Impossible | Charles Rogan |
| 1964 | The Rogues | Guy Gabriel |
| 1963 | Kraft Suspense Theatre | Robert Burke |
| 1963 | Arrest and Trial | |
| 1963 | The Greatest Show on Earth | |
| 1963 | The Fugitive | Harlan Guthrie |
| 1963 | Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | |
| 1963 | The Outer Limits | Ikar |
| 1962 | Stoney Burke | |
| 1961 | Ben Casey | |
| 1961 | The Defenders | Douglas |
| 1961 | The Defenders | Michael Hillyer |
| 1961 | The Defenders | Father Phelps |
| 1961 | The Investigators | Bert |
| 1960 | Route 66 | |
| 1960 | Thriller | Arthur Henshaw |
| 1959 | One Step Beyond | Andrew Courtney |
| 1959 | No Hiding Place | |
| 1959 | New York Confidential | |
| 1958 | Naked City | Gordon Lanning |
| 1958 | The Rifleman | Wes Carney |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Paul Brett |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Harrison Fell |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Edward Gibson |
| 1951 | Tales of Tomorrow | |
| 1951 | Out There | |
| 1950 | Robert Montgomery Presents | |
| 1950 | Robert Montgomery Presents | Philip |
| 1950 | Robert Montgomery Presents | George Lawrence |
| 1949 | Suspense | James Forsythe |
| 1948 | Studio One | |
| 1948 | Studio One | Skeets - Henchman / Bodyguard |