Acting
Robert Webber
EN, HU, FR, IT cinema · 65 credits
Born
14 October 1924
Died
19 May 1989 (aged 64)
Birthplace
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.
Known for
Filmography
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self (archive footage)
Nuts
as Francis MacMillan
The Ladies
as Jerry
Assassin
as Calvin Lantz
Wild Geese II
as Robert McCann
Half Nelson
as Harrison
Answers
as Ted Talbot (Segment "Twinkle, Twinkle")
In Like Flynn
as Col. Harper
No Man's Land
as Will Blackfield
Getting Physical
as Hugh Gibley
Shooting Stars
as Woodrow Norton
Wrong Is Right
as Harvey
Who Dares Wins
as General Ira Potter
Don't Go to Sleep
as Dr. Cole
Not Just Another Affair
as Professor Wally Dawson
The Two Lives of Carol Letner
as Ed Leemans
S.O.B.
as Ben Coogan
Private Benjamin
as Col. Clay Thornbush
All Stars
as Harry Stabling
Sunday Lovers
as Henry Morrison (segment "The French Method")
10
as Hugh
Gardenia
as Tony Caruso
The Streets of L.A.
as Ralph Salkin
Courage fuyons
as Charley
Revenge of the Pink Panther
as Philippe Douvier
Casey's Shadow
as Mike Marsh
The Young Runaways
as Fred Lockhart
Death Steps in the Dark
as Inspector
Madame Claude
as Howard
The Choirboys
as Deputy Chief Riggs
The Accuser
as American executive
Midway
as Admiral Jack Fletcher
Hit Squad
as Mr. Douglas
The Dangerous Mission
as Sergeant John Lewis
Death Stalk
as Hugh Webster
Flatfoot in Hong Kong
as Sam Accardo
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
as Sappensly
Murder or Mercy
as Dr. Eric Stoneman
Double Indemnity
as Edward Norton
Cutter
as Meredith
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as Attorney
Thief
as James Calendar
Macédoine
1971
Macédoine
as Sanderberg
The Movie Murderer
as Karel Kessler
The Great White Hope
as Dixon
Hauser's Memory
as Dorsey
The Big Bounce
as Bob Rodgers
Manon 70
as Ravaggi
The Dirty Dozen
as General Denton
Don't Make Waves
as Rod Prescott
Every Man Is My Enemy
as Tony Costa
The Silencers
as Sam Gunther
Harper
as Dwight Troy
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
as Milo Stewart
The Hired Killer
as Clint Harris
Hysteria
as Chris Smith
The Sandpiper
as Ward Hendricks
The Third Day
as Dom Guardiano
The Stripper
as Ricky Powers
The Nun and the Sergeant
as Sgt. McGrath
12 Angry Men
as Juror 12
Highway 301
as William "Bill" Phillips