Robert Webber
Acting
- Born:
- 1924-10-14
- Died:
- 1989-05-19
- Place of birth:
- Santa Ana, California, USA
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
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Something Is Out There
Nuts
The Ladies
Assassin
Wild Geese II
In Like Flynn
Answers
Half Nelson
Moonlighting
Cover Up
No Man's Land
Getting Physical
Shooting Stars
Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
Don't Go to Sleep
Not Just Another Affair
Who Dares Wins
Wrong Is Right
Bret Maverick
Darkroom
The Two Lives of Carol Letner
S.O.B.
Sunday Lovers
Private Benjamin
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
All Stars
The Streets of L.A.
Courage fuyons
10
Gardenia
Kaz
The Young Runaways
Revenge of the Pink Panther
Casey's Shadow
The Choirboys
79 Park Avenue
The Accuser
Madame Claude
Death Steps in the Dark
Hit Squad
Quincy, M.E.
Midway
Switch
The Dangerous Mission
Flatfoot in Hong Kong
S.W.A.T.
Death Stalk
Pacific Challenge
The Rockford Files
Police Woman
The Manhunter
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Murder or Mercy
Kojak
Double Indemnity
The Magician
Hawkins
Barnaby Jones
The Streets of San Francisco
Banyon
Search
Banacek
Cutter
$
Thief
McMillan & Wife
Cannon
Macédoine
Hauser's Memory
San Francisco International Airport
The Great White Hope
McCloud
The Movie Murderer
Love, American Style
The Big Bounce
The Name of the Game
Manon 70
Mannix
Don't Make Waves
The Dirty Dozen
Ironside
Every Man Is My Enemy
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
Mission: Impossible
The Hired Killer
Harper
The Silencers
The Third Day
The Sandpiper
A Statue for "The Sandpiper"
Hysteria
The Rogues
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Espionage
The Greatest Show on Earth
The Fugitive
The Outer Limits
Arrest and Trial
Sergeant Cork
The Stripper
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 Confidential
Naked City
The Rifleman
12 Angry Men
Our Miss Pemberton
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Janet Dean, Registered Nurse
Out There
Tales of Tomorrow
Highway 301
Robert Montgomery Presents
Suspense
Studio One