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