Robert Webber
Acting • Born 1924-10-14 – Died 1989-05-19
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
135 credits
The Dirty Dozen
Movie • 1967
General Denton
Don't Make Waves
Movie • 1967
Rod Prescott
Private Benjamin
Movie • 1980
Col. Clay Thornbush
Revenge of the Pink Panther
Movie • 1978
Philippe Douvier
Midway
Movie • 1976
Admiral Jack Fletcher
The Silencers
Movie • 1966
Sam Gunther
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Movie • 1974
Sappensly
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Movie • 1971
Attorney
Wrong Is Right
Movie • 1982
Harvey
Harper
Movie • 1966
Dwight Troy
10
Movie • 1979
Hugh
Nuts
Movie • 1987
Francis MacMillan
Highway 301
Movie • 1950
William "Bill" Phillips
Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
Movie • 1983
Felix
Wild Geese II
Movie • 1985
Robert McCann
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
Movie • 1966
Milo Stewart
Who Dares Wins
Movie • 1982
General Ira Potter
Hysteria
Movie • 1965
Chris Smith
Double Indemnity
Movie • 1973
Edward Norton
Don't Go to Sleep
Movie • 1982
Dr. Cole
The Sandpiper
Movie • 1965
Ward Hendricks
Death Steps in the Dark
Movie • 1977
Inspector
The Third Day
Movie • 1965
Dom Guardiano
Madame Claude
Movie • 1977
Howard
The Stripper
Movie • 1963
Ricky Powers
Pacific Challenge
Movie • 1975
Narrator
Gardenia
Movie • 1979
Tony Caruso
The Dangerous Mission
Movie • 1975
Sergeant John Lewis
Death Stalk
Movie • 1975
Hugh Webster
Thief
Movie • 1971
James Calendar
Not Just Another Affair
Movie • 1982
Professor Wally Dawson
The Hired Killer
Movie • 1966
Clint Harris
The Streets of L.A.
Movie • 1979
Ralph Salkin
Courage fuyons
Movie • 1979
Charley
Every Man Is My Enemy
Movie • 1967
Tony Costa
Manon 70
Movie • 1968
Ravaggi
The Two Lives of Carol Letner
Movie • 1981
Ed Leemans
The Choirboys
Movie • 1977
Deputy Chief Riggs
The Nun and the Sergeant
Movie • 1962
Sgt. McGrath
The Big Bounce
Movie • 1969
Bob Rodgers
The Great White Hope
Movie • 1970
Dixon
The Movie Murderer
Movie • 1970
Karel Kessler
Hauser's Memory
Movie • 1970
Dorsey
Macédoine
Movie • 1971
Sanderberg
Murder or Mercy
Movie • 1974
Dr. Eric Stoneman
Cutter
Movie • 1972
Meredith
Shooting Stars
Movie • 1983
Woodrow Norton
Flatfoot in Hong Kong
Movie • 1975
Sam Accardo
Getting Physical
Movie • 1984
Hugh Gibley
The Accuser
Movie • 1977
American executive
All Stars
Movie • 1980
Harry Stabling
Sunday Lovers
Movie • 1980
Henry Morrison (segment "The French Method")
S.O.B.
Movie • 1981
Ben Coogan
Casey's Shadow
Movie • 1978
Mike Marsh
The Ladies
Movie • 1987
Jerry
In Like Flynn
Movie • 1985
Col. Harper
No Man's Land
Movie • 1984
Will Blackfield
Answers
Movie • 1985
Ted Talbot (Segment "Twinkle, Twinkle")
Half Nelson
Movie • 1985
Harrison
The Young Runaways
Movie • 1978
Fred Lockhart
A Statue for 'The Sandpiper'
Movie • 1965
Self
Hit Squad
Movie • 1976
Mr. Douglas
Assassin
Movie • 1986
Calvin Lantz
12 Angry Men
Movie • 1957
Juror 12
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
Kraft Suspense Theatre
TV • 1963
Robert Burke
Quincy, M.E.
TV • 1976
Route 66
TV • 1960
Moonlighting
TV • 1985
Alexander Hayes
The Streets of San Francisco
TV • 1972
Hawkins
TV • 1973
Carl Vincent
Kaz
TV • 1978
Naked City
TV • 1958
Gordon Lanning
Kojak
TV • 1973
David Lawrence
Studio One
TV • 1948
Cannon
TV • 1971
Cover Up
TV • 1984
Ironside
TV • 1967
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Paul Brett
The Greatest Show on Earth
TV • 1963
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Harlan Guthrie
Switch
TV • 1975
Paul Sinclair
S.W.A.T.
TV • 1975
Thriller
TV • 1960
Arthur Henshaw
Search
TV • 1972
McCloud
TV • 1970
Banyon
TV • 1972
One Step Beyond
TV • 1959
Andrew Courtney
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV • 1963
No Hiding Place
TV • 1959
Ben Casey
TV • 1961
Suspense
TV • 1949
James Forsythe
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
The Manhunter
TV • 1974
New York Confidential
TV • 1959
Tales of Tomorrow
TV • 1951
The Rogues
TV • 1964
Guy Gabriel
Stoney Burke
TV • 1962
The Defenders
TV • 1961
Douglas
The Defenders
TV • 1961
Michael Hillyer
The Outer Limits
TV • 1963
Ikar
The Defenders
TV • 1961
Father Phelps
Out There
TV • 1951
The Magician
TV • 1973
Arthur Zellman
Love, American Style
TV • 1969
Harris
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Philip
Something Is Out There
TV • 1988
Commissioner Estabrook
The Name of the Game
TV • 1968
William McKendricks
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Harrison Fell
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Edward Gibson
The Rockford Files
TV • 1974
Sen. Evan Murdock
The Rockford Files
TV • 1974
Bob Coleman
Studio One
TV • 1948
Skeets - Henchman / Bodyguard
Ironside
TV • 1967
Sam Burton
The Rockford Files
TV • 1974
Roman Clementi
McMillan & Wife
TV • 1971
Charles Meridio
Mission: Impossible
TV • 1966
Charles Rogan
Quincy, M.E.
TV • 1976
Dr. John Franklin
Barnaby Jones
TV • 1973
Gene Gates
Banacek
TV • 1972
Jerry Brinkman
Police Woman
TV • 1974
Julian Lord
The Rifleman
TV • 1958
Wes Carney
79 Park Avenue
TV • 1977
John Hackson DeWitt
The Rockford Files
TV • 1974
Harold Jack Coombs
Bret Maverick
TV • 1981
Everest Sinclair
Barnaby Jones
TV • 1973
Maxwell Strager
The Investigators
TV • 1961
Bert Crayne
Mannix
TV • 1967
Tom Carlson
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
George Lawrence
Our Miss Pemberton
TV • 1957
Vicar
Janet Dean, Registered Nurse
TV • 1954
Studio One
TV • 1948
Chase
Arrest and Trial
TV • 1963
George Morrison
San Francisco International Airport
TV • 1970
Brigadier General Daniel Boyd Goodwin
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
TV • 1980
Herman LaCross