Robert Webber
Acting
- Naissance:
- 1924-10-14
- Décès:
- 1989-05-19
- Lieu de naissance:
- Santa Ana, California, USA
Biographie
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.
Connu pour
Filmographie
L'Ouest de Sam Peckinpah : la loi selon un renégat d'Hollywood
Something Is Out There
Cinglée
The Ladies
Assassin
Les Oies sauvages II
In Like Flynn
Answers
Half Nelson
Clair de Lune
Espion modèle
No Man's Land
Getting Physical
Shooting Stars
Starflight One
Un enfant lumière
Not Just Another Affair
Commando
Meurtres en direct
Bret Maverick
Darkroom
The Two Lives of Carol Letner
S.O.B.
Les Séducteurs
La Bidasse
Timide et sans complexe
Tous vedettes !
The Streets of L.A.
Courage fuyons
Elle
Gardenia, il giustiziere della mala
Kaz
The Young Runaways
La Malédiction de la Panthère rose
Casey's Shadow
Bande de flics
79 Park Avenue
L'Imprécateur
Madame Claude
Passi di morte perduti nel buio
Un flic très spécial
Quincy
La Bataille de Midway
Switch
Soldat Duroc, ça va être ta fête !
Le Cogneur
Section Quatre
Death Stalk
Pacific Challenge
200 dollars plus les frais
Sergent Anderson
The Manhunter
Apportez-moi la tête d'Alfredo Garcia
Murder or Mercy
Kojak
Assurance sur la mort
Le Magicien
Hawkins
Barnaby Jones
Les Rues de San-Francisco
Banyon
Search
Banacek
Cutter
Dollars
Thief
Mcmillan
Cannon
Macédoine
Hauser's Memory
San Francisco International Airport
L'Insurgé
Un shérif à New York
The Movie Murderer
Love, American Style
Une si belle garce
The Name of the Game
Manon 70
Mannix
Comment réussir en amour sans se fatiguer
Les Douze Salopards
L'Homme de fer
Qualcuno ha tradito
Un truand
Mission : Impossible
Technique d'un meurtre
Détective privé
Matt Helm, agent très spécial
The Third Day
Le Chevalier des sables
A Statue for "The Sandpiper"
Hysteria
The Rogues
Haute Tension
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Espionage
The Greatest Show on Earth
Le Fugitif
Au-delà du réel
Arrest and Trial
Sergeant Cork
Les Loups et l'Agneau
Stoney Burke
Steptoe and Son
The Nun and the Sergeant
The Investigators
Ben Casey
The Defenders
Route 66
Thriller
No Hiding Place
One Step Beyond
New York confidentiel
La Cité sans voile
The Rifleman
Douze hommes en colère
Our Miss Pemberton
Alfred Hitchcock présente
Janet Dean, Registered Nurse
Out There
Tales of Tomorrow
Témoin de la dernière heure
Robert Montgomery Presents
Suspense
Studio One