
Robert Webber
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.
122 acting credits
Acting · 122

Mannix
1967

The Fugitive
1963

Ironside
1967

Love, American Style
1969

The Rifleman
1958

Quincy, M.E.
1976

Mission: Impossible
1966

The Rockford Files
1974

Robert Montgomery Presents
1950

Naked City
1958

Cannon
1971

Ben Casey
1961

Route 66
1960
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963

Moonlighting
1985

The Outer Limits
1963

Police Woman
1974

Barnaby Jones
1973

12 Angry Men
1957

Studio One
1948

Thriller
1960

Kojak
1973

The Name of the Game
1968

The Defenders
1961

The Streets of San Francisco
1972

McCloud
1970

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

One Step Beyond
1959

Switch
1975

No Hiding Place
1959

Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963

Midway
1976

Suspense
1949

McMillan & Wife
1971

Arrest and Trial
1963

Banacek
1972

Tales of Tomorrow
1951

The Rogues
1964

Search
1972

The Magician
1973

Stoney Burke
1962

Cover Up
1984

S.W.A.T.
1975

Espionage
1963
The Greatest Show on Earth
1963

The Dirty Dozen
1967

Bret Maverick
1981

The Manhunter
1974

Banyon
1972

Kaz
1978

Hawkins
1973

Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
1980

The Investigators
1961

10
1979

New York Confidential
1959

Private Benjamin
1980

San Francisco International Airport
1970

Revenge of the Pink Panther
1978

79 Park Avenue
1977
Our Miss Pemberton
1957

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
1974

Harper
1966
Janet Dean, Registered Nurse
1954

Who Dares Wins
1982

S.O.B.
1981
Out There
1951

Something Is Out There
1988

Nuts
1987

Madame Claude
1977

Assassin
1986

The Silencers
1966

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004

Wrong Is Right
1982

Not Just Another Affair
1982

Manon 70
1968

Flatfoot in Hong Kong
1975

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1971

The Choirboys
1977

Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
1983

Wild Geese II
1985

Half Nelson
1985

Don't Go to Sleep
1982

Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
1966

Hit Squad
1976

The Sandpiper
1965

Double Indemnity
1973

Courage fuyons
1979

Sunday Lovers
1980

Highway 301
1950

The Great White Hope
1970

Don't Make Waves
1967

The Young Runaways
1978

Shooting Stars
1983

The Movie Murderer
1970

The Big Bounce
1969

The Two Lives of Carol Letner
1981

The Hired Killer
1966

Gardenia
1979

Hysteria
1965

Casey's Shadow
1978

The Accuser
1977

No Man's Land
1984

In Like Flynn
1985

Death Stalk
1975

Answers
1985

Getting Physical
1984

Murder or Mercy
1974

The Third Day
1965

The Streets of L.A.
1979

Cutter
1972

Thief
1971

The Nun and the Sergeant
1962

The Stripper
1963

Death Steps in the Dark
1977
Macédoine
1971

The Ladies
1987

Hauser's Memory
1970

A Statue for "The Sandpiper"
1965

All Stars
1980
Pacific Challenge
1975

Every Man Is My Enemy
1967

The Dangerous Mission
1975