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
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Movies 68
TV Shows 50
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Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade (2004)
Something Is Out There (1988)
Nuts (1987)
The Ladies (1987)
Assassin (1986)
Wild Geese II (1985)
In Like Flynn (1985)
Half Nelson (1985)
Moonlighting (1985)
Answers (1985)
Cover Up (1984)
Cover Up (1984)
No Man's Land (1984)
Getting Physical (1984)
Shooting Stars (1983)
Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land (1983)
Don't Go to Sleep (1982)
Not Just Another Affair (1982)
Who Dares Wins (1982)
Wrong Is Right (1982)
Darkroom (1981)
The Two Lives of Carol Letner (1981)
S.O.B. (1981)
Sunday Lovers (1980)
Private Benjamin (1980)
All Stars (1980)
The Streets of L.A. (1979)
Courage fuyons (1979)
10 (1979)
Gardenia (1979)
Kaz (1978)
The Young Runaways (1978)
Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)
Casey's Shadow (1978)
The Choirboys (1977)
79 Park Avenue (1977)
The Accuser (1977)
Madame Claude (1977)
Death Steps in the Dark (1977)
Hit Squad (1976)
Quincy, M.E. (1976)
Midway (1976)
Switch (1975)
Flatfoot in Hong Kong (1975)
The Dangerous Mission (1975)
S.W.A.T. (1975)
Death Stalk (1975)
Pacific Challenge (1975)
Police Woman (1974)
The Rockford Files (1974)
The Manhunter (1974)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
Amy Prentiss (1974)
Murder or Mercy (1974)
Kojak (1973)
Double Indemnity (1973)
The Magician (1973)
Hawkins (1973)
The Streets of San Francisco (1972)
Banyon (1972)
Banacek (1972)
Search (1972)
Cutter (1972)
$ (1971)
Thief (1971)
McMillan and Wife (1971)
Cannon (1971)
Macédoine (1971)
Hauser's Memory (1970)
The Great White Hope (1970)
McCloud (1970)
The Movie Murderer (1970)
Love, American Style (1969)
The Big Bounce (1969)
The Name of the Game (1968)
Manon 70 (1968)
Mannix (1967)
Don't Make Waves (1967)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Ironside (1967)
Every Man Is My Enemy (1967)
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966)
Mission: Impossible (1966)
The Hired Killer (1966)
Harper (1966)
The Silencers (1966)
The Third Day (1965)
The Sandpiper (1965)
A Statue for 'The Sandpiper' (1965)
Hysteria (1965)
The Rogues (1964)
Kraft Suspense Theatre (1963)
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963)
The Greatest Show on Earth (1963)
The Fugitive (1963)
The Outer Limits (1963)
Arrest and Trial (1963)
The Stripper (1963)
Stoney Burke (1962)
The Nun and the Sergeant (1962)
Ben Casey (1961)
The Defenders (1961)
Route 66 (1960)
Thriller (1960)
No Hiding Place (1959)
One Step Beyond (1959)
New York Confidential (1959)
Naked City (1958)
The Rifleman (1958)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
Plan For Escape (1952)
Out There (1951)
Tales of Tomorrow (1951)
Highway 301 (1950)
Robert Montgomery Presents (1950)
Suspense (1949)
Studio One (1948)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1924-10-14
Deathday1989-05-17 (64 years old)
Birth PlaceSanta Ana, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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