Robert Webber

Actor

Born October 14, 1924 in 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

Self (archive footage)

Something Is Out There

Commissioner Estabrook

Nuts

Francis MacMillan

The Ladies

Jerry

Assassin

Calvin Lantz

Wild Geese II

Robert McCann

In Like Flynn

Col. Harper

Answers

Ted Talbot (Segment "Twinkle, Twinkle")

Half Nelson

Harrison

Moonlighting

Alexander Hayes

Cover Up

No Man's Land

Will Blackfield

Getting Physical

Hugh Gibley

Shooting Stars

Woodrow Norton

Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land

Felix

Don't Go to Sleep

Dr. Cole

Not Just Another Affair

Professor Wally Dawson

Who Dares Wins

General Ira Potter

Wrong Is Right

Harvey

Bret Maverick

Everest Sinclair

Darkroom

Greg Conway

The Two Lives of Carol Letner

Ed Leemans

S.O.B.

Ben Coogan

Sunday Lovers

Henry Morrison (segment "The French Method")

Private Benjamin

Col. Clay Thornbush

Tenspeed and Brown Shoe

Herman LaCross

All Stars

Harry Stabling

The Streets of L.A.

Ralph Salkin

Courage fuyons

Charley

Hugh

Gardenia

Tony Caruso

Kaz

The Young Runaways

Fred Lockhart

Revenge of the Pink Panther

Philippe Douvier

Casey's Shadow

Mike Marsh

The Choirboys

Deputy Chief Riggs

79 Park Avenue

John Hackson DeWitt

The Accuser

American executive

Madame Claude

Howard

Death Steps in the Dark

Inspector

Hit Squad

Mr. Douglas

Quincy, M.E.

Midway

Admiral Jack Fletcher

Switch

Paul Sinclair

The Dangerous Mission

Sergeant John Lewis

Flatfoot in Hong Kong

Sam Accardo

S.W.A.T.

Death Stalk

Hugh Webster

The Rockford Files

Sen. Evan Murdock

Police Woman

Julian Lord

The Manhunter

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

Sappensly

Murder or Mercy

Dr. Eric Stoneman

Kojak

David Lawrence

Double Indemnity

Edward Norton

The Magician

Arthur Zellman

Hawkins

Carl Vincent

Barnaby Jones

Gene Gates

The Streets of San Francisco

Banyon

Banacek

Jerry Brinkman

Cutter

Meredith

Attorney

Thief

James Calendar

McMillan & Wife

Charles Meridio

Cannon

Hauser's Memory

Dorsey

San Francisco International Airport

Brigadier General Daniel Boyd Goodwin

The Great White Hope

Dixon

McCloud

The Movie Murderer

Karel Kessler

Love, American Style

Harris

The Big Bounce

Bob Rodgers

The Name of the Game

William McKendricks

Manon 70

Ravaggi

Mannix

Tom Carlson

Don't Make Waves

Rod Prescott

The Dirty Dozen

General Denton

Ironside

Every Man Is My Enemy

Tony Costa

Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round

Milo Stewart

Mission: Impossible

Charles Rogan

The Hired Killer

Clint Harris

Harper

Dwight Troy

The Silencers

Sam Gunther

The Third Day

Dom Guardiano

The Sandpiper

Ward Hendricks

A Statue for "The Sandpiper"

Self

Hysteria

Chris Smith

The Rogues

Guy Gabriel

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Robert Burke

Espionage

Jack Hanley

The Fugitive

Harlan Guthrie

The Outer Limits

Ikar

Arrest and Trial

George Morrison

The Stripper

Ricky Powers

Stoney Burke

The Nun and the Sergeant

Sgt. McGrath

The Investigators

Bert Crayne

Ben Casey

The Defenders

Douglas

Route 66

Thriller

Arthur Henshaw

No Hiding Place

One Step Beyond

Andrew Courtney

New York Confidential

Naked City

Gordon Lanning

The Rifleman

Wes Carney

12 Angry Men

Juror 12

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Paul Brett

Tales of Tomorrow

Highway 301

William "Bill" Phillips

Robert Montgomery Presents

Suspense

James Forsythe

Studio One