Robert Webber
Born: 1924-10-14 in Santa Ana, California, USA
Died: 1989-05-19
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2004
- Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Self (archive footage)
1988
- Something Is Out There as Commissioner Estabrook
1987
- The Ladies as Jerry
- Nuts as Francis MacMillan
1986
- Assassin as Calvin Lantz
1985
- Moonlighting as Alexander Hayes
- Half Nelson as Harrison
- Answers as Ted Talbot (Segment "Twinkle, Twinkle")
- Wild Geese II as Robert McCann
- In Like Flynn as Col. Harper
1984
- Cover Up
- Getting Physical as Hugh Gibley
- No Man's Land as Will Blackfield
1983
- Shooting Stars as Woodrow Norton
- Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land as Felix
1982
- Who Dares Wins as General Ira Potter
- Don't Go to Sleep as Dr. Cole
- Not Just Another Affair as Professor Wally Dawson
- Wrong Is Right as Harvey
1981
- S.O.B. as Ben Coogan
- The Two Lives of Carol Letner as Ed Leemans
- Bret Maverick as Everest Sinclair
1980
- Private Benjamin as Col. Clay Thornbush
- Sunday Lovers as Henry Morrison (segment "The French Method")
- All Stars as Harry Stabling
1979
- Courage fuyons as Charley
- 10 as Hugh
- The Streets of L.A. as Ralph Salkin
- Gardenia as Tony Caruso
1978
- Revenge of the Pink Panther as Philippe Douvier
- Kaz
- The Young Runaways as Fred Lockhart
- Casey's Shadow as Mike Marsh
1977
- The Choirboys as Deputy Chief Riggs
- Madame Claude as Howard
- Death Steps in the Dark as Inspector
- The Accuser as American executive
- 79 Park Avenue as John Hackson DeWitt
1976
- Quincy, M.E.
- Midway as Admiral Jack Fletcher
- Hit Squad as Mr. Douglas
1975
- Switch as Paul Sinclair
- Death Stalk as Hugh Webster
- S.W.A.T.
- Flatfoot in Hong Kong as Sam Accardo
- The Dangerous Mission as Sergeant John Lewis
- Pacific Challenge as Narrator
1974
- The Rockford Files as Sen. Evan Murdock
- Police Woman as Julian Lord
- The Manhunter
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia as Sappensly
- Murder or Mercy as Dr. Eric Stoneman
1973
- Kojak as David Lawrence
- Barnaby Jones as Gene Gates
- Double Indemnity as Edward Norton
- The Magician as Arthur Zellman
- Hawkins as Carl Vincent
1972
- The Streets of San Francisco
- Banacek as Jerry Brinkman
- Cutter as Meredith
- Search
- Banyon
1971
- Cannon
- McMillan & Wife as Charles Meridio
- $ as Attorney
- Thief as James Calendar
- Macédoine as Sanderberg
1970
- McCloud
- The Movie Murderer as Karel Kessler
- The Great White Hope as Dixon
- Hauser's Memory as Dorsey
- San Francisco International Airport as Brigadier General Daniel Boyd Goodwin
1969
- Love, American Style as Harris
- The Big Bounce as Bob Rodgers
1968
- The Name of the Game as William McKendricks
- Manon 70 as Ravaggi
1967
- Ironside
- Mannix as Tom Carlson
- The Dirty Dozen as General Denton
- Don't Make Waves as Rod Prescott
- Every Man Is My Enemy as Tony Costa
1966
- Mission: Impossible as Charles Rogan
- Harper as Dwight Troy
- Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round as Milo Stewart
- The Hired Killer as Clint Harris
- The Silencers as Sam Gunther
1965
- Hysteria as Chris Smith
- The Sandpiper as Ward Hendricks
- The Third Day as Dom Guardiano
- A Statue for 'The Sandpiper' as Self
1964
- The Rogues as Guy Gabriel
1963
- The Fugitive as Harlan Guthrie
- The Outer Limits as Ikar
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
- Kraft Suspense Theatre as Robert Burke
- The Stripper as Ricky Powers
- Arrest and Trial as George Morrison
- The Greatest Show on Earth
1962
- Stoney Burke
- The Nun and the Sergeant as Sgt. McGrath
1961
- Ben Casey
- The Defenders as Michael Hillyer
- The Investigators as Bert Crayne
1959
- No Hiding Place
- One Step Beyond as Andrew Courtney
- New York Confidential
1958
- The Rifleman as Wes Carney
- Naked City as Gordon Lanning
1957
- 12 Angry Men as Juror 12
- Our Miss Pemberton as Vicar
1955
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Paul Brett
1950
- Robert Montgomery Presents
- Highway 301 as William "Bill" Phillips
1949
- Suspense as James Forsythe