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
- Nuts as Francis MacMillan
- The Ladies as Jerry
1986
- Assassin as Calvin Lantz
1985
- Moonlighting as Alexander Hayes
- Wild Geese II as Robert McCann
- Half Nelson as Harrison
- In Like Flynn as Col. Harper
- Answers as Ted Talbot (Segment "Twinkle, Twinkle")
1984
- Cover Up
- No Man's Land as Will Blackfield
- Getting Physical as Hugh Gibley
1983
- Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land as Felix
- Shooting Stars as Woodrow Norton
1982
- Who Dares Wins as General Ira Potter
- Wrong Is Right as Harvey
- Don't Go to Sleep as Dr. Cole
- Not Just Another Affair as Professor Wally Dawson
1981
- Bret Maverick as Everest Sinclair
- S.O.B. as Ben Coogan
- The Two Lives of Carol Letner as Ed Leemans
1980
- Tenspeed and Brown Shoe as Herman LaCross
- Private Benjamin as Col. Clay Thornbush
- Sunday Lovers as Henry Morrison (segment "The French Method")
- All Stars as Harry Stabling
1979
- 10 as Hugh
- Courage fuyons as Charley
- Gardenia as Tony Caruso
- The Streets of L.A. as Ralph Salkin
1978
- Kaz
- Revenge of the Pink Panther as Philippe Douvier
- The Young Runaways as Fred Lockhart
- Casey's Shadow as Mike Marsh
1977
- 79 Park Avenue as John Hackson DeWitt
- Madame Claude as Howard
- The Choirboys as Deputy Chief Riggs
- Death Steps in the Dark as Inspector
- The Accuser as American executive
1976
- Quincy, M.E.
- Midway as Admiral Jack Fletcher
- Hit Squad as Mr. Douglas
1975
- Switch as Paul Sinclair
- S.W.A.T.
- Flatfoot in Hong Kong as Sam Accardo
- The Dangerous Mission as Sergeant John Lewis
- Death Stalk as Hugh Webster
- 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
- Barnaby Jones as Gene Gates
- Kojak as David Lawrence
- The Magician as Arthur Zellman
- Hawkins as Carl Vincent
- Double Indemnity as Edward Norton
1972
- The Streets of San Francisco
- Banacek as Jerry Brinkman
- Search
- Banyon
- Cutter as Meredith
1971
- Cannon
- McMillan & Wife as Charles Meridio
- $ as Attorney
- Thief as James Calendar
- Macédoine as Sanderberg
1970
- McCloud
- San Francisco International Airport as Brigadier General Daniel Boyd Goodwin
- The Great White Hope as Dixon
- The Movie Murderer as Karel Kessler
- Hauser's Memory as Dorsey
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
- Mannix as Tom Carlson
- Ironside
- 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
- The Silencers as Sam Gunther
- Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round as Milo Stewart
- The Hired Killer as Clint Harris
1965
- The Sandpiper as Ward Hendricks
- The Third Day as Dom Guardiano
- Hysteria as Chris Smith
- 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
- Arrest and Trial as George Morrison
- The Greatest Show on Earth
- Espionage as Jack Hanley
- The Stripper as Ricky Powers
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
- One Step Beyond as Andrew Courtney
- No Hiding Place
- 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