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