Robert Webber
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 14 October 1924 · Santa Ana, California, USA
- Died
- 19 May 1989
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
Acting 65
- 2004Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Self (archive footage)
- 1987Nuts as Francis MacMillan
- 1987The Ladies as Jerry
- 1986Assassin as Calvin Lantz
- 1985Wild Geese II as Robert McCann
- 1985In Like Flynn as Col. Harper
- 1985Answers as Ted Talbot (Segment "Twinkle, Twinkle")
- 1985Half Nelson as Harrison
- 1984No Man's Land as Will Blackfield
- 1984Getting Physical as Hugh Gibley
- 1983Shooting Stars as Woodrow Norton
- 1983Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land as Felix
- 1982Don't Go to Sleep as Dr. Cole
- 1982Not Just Another Affair as Professor Wally Dawson
- 1982Who Dares Wins as General Ira Potter
- 1982Wrong Is Right as Harvey
- 1981The Two Lives of Carol Letner as Ed Leemans
- 1981S.O.B. as Ben Coogan
- 1980Sunday Lovers as Henry Morrison (segment "The French Method")
- 1980Private Benjamin as Col. Clay Thornbush
- 1980All Stars as Harry Stabling
- 1979The Streets of L.A. as Ralph Salkin
- 1979Courage fuyons as Charley
- 197910 as Hugh
- 1979Gardenia as Tony Caruso
- 1978The Young Runaways as Fred Lockhart
- 1978Revenge of the Pink Panther as Philippe Douvier
- 1978Casey's Shadow as Mike Marsh
- 1977The Choirboys as Deputy Chief Riggs
- 1977The Accuser as American executive
- 1977Madame Claude as Howard
- 1977Death Steps in the Dark as Inspector
- 1976Hit Squad as Mr. Douglas
- 1976Midway as Admiral Jack Fletcher
- 1975The Dangerous Mission as Sergeant John Lewis
- 1975Flatfoot in Hong Kong as Sam Accardo
- 1975Death Stalk as Hugh Webster
- 1975Pacific Challenge as Narrator
- 1974Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia as Sappensly
- 1974Murder or Mercy as Dr. Eric Stoneman
- 1973Double Indemnity as Edward Norton
- 1972Cutter as Meredith
- 1971$ as Attorney
- 1971Thief as James Calendar
- 1971Macédoine as Sanderberg
- 1970Hauser's Memory as Dorsey
- 1970The Great White Hope as Dixon
- 1970The Movie Murderer as Karel Kessler
- 1969The Big Bounce as Bob Rodgers
- 1968Manon 70 as Ravaggi
- 1967Don't Make Waves as Rod Prescott
- 1967The Dirty Dozen as General Denton
- 1967Every Man Is My Enemy as Tony Costa
- 1966Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round as Milo Stewart
- 1966The Hired Killer as Clint Harris
- 1966Harper as Dwight Troy
- 1966The Silencers as Sam Gunther
- 1965The Third Day as Dom Guardiano
- 1965The Sandpiper as Ward Hendricks
- 1965A Statue for "The Sandpiper" as Self
- 1965Hysteria as Chris Smith
- 1963The Stripper as Ricky Powers
- 1962The Nun and the Sergeant as Sgt. McGrath
- 195712 Angry Men as Juror 12
- 1950Highway 301 as William "Bill" Phillips