Robert Webber
63 movies · 59 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 14, 1924
- Died
- May 19, 1989 (age 64)
- Place of birth
- Santa Ana, California, USA
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.
Profiles IMDb
Known for
Robert Webber: movies and TV shows
Acting (122)
- 1988
- 1987 Nuts
as Francis MacMillan
- 1987 The Ladies
as Jerry
- 1986 Assassin
as Calvin Lantz
- 1985 Wild Geese II
as Robert McCann
- 1985 In Like Flynn
as Col. Harper
- 1985 Answers
as Ted Talbot (Segment "Twinkle, Twinkle")
- 1985 Half Nelson
as Harrison
- 1985
- 1984
- 1984 No Man's Land
as Will Blackfield
- 1984 Getting Physical
as Hugh Gibley
- 1983 Shooting Stars
as Woodrow Norton
- 1983
- 1982 Don't Go to Sleep
as Dr. Cole
- 1982 Not Just Another Affair
as Professor Wally Dawson
- 1982 Who Dares Wins
as General Ira Potter
- 1982 Wrong Is Right
as Harvey
- 1981
- 1981
- 1981 The Two Lives of Carol Letner
as Ed Leemans
- 1981 S.O.B.
as Ben Coogan
- 1980 Sunday Lovers
as Henry Morrison (segment "The French Method")
- 1980 Private Benjamin
as Col. Clay Thornbush
- 1980
- 1980 All Stars
as Harry Stabling
- 1979 The Streets of L.A.
as Ralph Salkin
- 1979 Courage fuyons
as Charley
- 1979 10
as Hugh
- 1979 Gardenia
as Tony Caruso
- 1978
- 1978 The Young Runaways
as Fred Lockhart
- 1978 Revenge of the Pink Panther
as Philippe Douvier
- 1978 Casey's Shadow
as Mike Marsh
- 1977 The Choirboys
as Deputy Chief Riggs
- 1977
- 1977 The Accuser
as American executive
- 1977 Madame Claude
as Howard
- 1977 Death Steps in the Dark
as Inspector
- 1976 Hit Squad
as Mr. Douglas
- 1976
- 1976 Midway
as Admiral Jack Fletcher
- 1975
- 1975 The Dangerous Mission
as Sergeant John Lewis
- 1975 Flatfoot in Hong Kong
as Sam Accardo
- 1975
- 1975 Death Stalk
as Hugh Webster
- 1975 Pacific Challenge
as Narrator
- 1974 The Rockford Files · TV
as Sen. Evan Murdock / Bob Coleman / Roman Clementi / Harold Jack Coombs · 4 episodes
- 1974
- 1974
- 1974 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
as Sappensly
- 1974 Murder or Mercy
as Dr. Eric Stoneman
- 1973
- 1973 Double Indemnity
as Edward Norton
- 1973
- 1973
- 1973
- 1972
- 1972
- 1972
- 1972
- 1972 Cutter
as Meredith
- 1971 $
as Attorney
- 1971 Thief
as James Calendar
- 1971
- 1971
- 1971 Macédoine
as Sanderberg
- 1970 Hauser's Memory
as Dorsey
- 1970
- 1970 The Great White Hope
as Dixon
- 1970
- 1970 The Movie Murderer
as Karel Kessler
- 1969
- 1969 The Big Bounce
as Bob Rodgers
- 1968
- 1968 Manon 70
as Ravaggi
- 1967
- 1967 Don't Make Waves
as Rod Prescott
- 1967 The Dirty Dozen
as General Denton
- 1967
- 1967 Every Man Is My Enemy
as Tony Costa
- 1966 Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
as Milo Stewart
- 1966
- 1966 The Hired Killer
as Clint Harris
- 1966 Harper
as Dwight Troy
- 1966 The Silencers
as Sam Gunther
- 1965 The Third Day
as Dom Guardiano
- 1965 The Sandpiper
as Ward Hendricks
- 1965 Hysteria
as Chris Smith
- 1964
- 1963
- 1963
- 1963
- 1963
- 1963
- 1963
- 1963
- 1963 The Stripper
as Ricky Powers
- 1962
- 1962
- 1962 The Nun and the Sergeant
as Sgt. McGrath
- 1961
- 1961
- 1961
- 1960
- 1960
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959
- 1958
- 1958
- 1957 12 Angry Men
as Juror 12
- 1957
- 1955
- 1954
- 1951
- 1951
- 1950 Highway 301
as William "Bill" Phillips
- 1950
- 1949
- 1948
Talk shows and appearances (3)
- 2004
- 1965
- 1963 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1 episode