Robert Webber
- Acting
- October 14, 1924 · Santa Ana, California, USA
- May 19, 1989
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade · Self
- Something Is Out There · Commissioner Estabrook
- Nuts · Francis MacMillan
- The Ladies · Jerry
- Assassin · Calvin Lantz
- Wild Geese II · Robert McCann
- In Like Flynn · Col. Harper
- Answers · Ted Talbot (Segment "Twinkle, Twinkle")
- Half Nelson · Harrison
- Moonlighting · Alexander Hayes
- Cover Up
- No Man's Land · Will Blackfield
- Getting Physical · Hugh Gibley
- Shooting Stars · Woodrow Norton
- Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land · Felix
- Don't Go to Sleep · Dr. Cole
- Not Just Another Affair · Professor Wally Dawson
- Who Dares Wins · General Ira Potter
- Wrong Is Right · Harvey
- Bret Maverick · Everest Sinclair
- Darkroom · Greg Conway
- The Two Lives of Carol Letner · Ed Leemans
- S.O.B. · Ben Coogan
- Sunday Lovers · Henry Morrison (segment "The French Method")
- Private Benjamin · Col. Clay Thornbush
- Tenspeed and Brown Shoe · Herman LaCross
- All Stars · Harry Stabling
- The Streets of L.A. · Ralph Salkin
- Courage fuyons · Charley
- 10 · Hugh
- Gardenia · Tony Caruso
- Kaz
- The Young Runaways · Fred Lockhart
- Revenge of the Pink Panther · Philippe Douvier
- Casey's Shadow · Mike Marsh
- The Choirboys · Deputy Chief Riggs
- 79 Park Avenue · John Hackson DeWitt
- The Accuser · American executive
- Madame Claude · Howard
- Death Steps in the Dark · Inspector
- Hit Squad · Mr. Douglas
- Quincy, M.E. · Dr. John Franklin
- Midway · Admiral Jack Fletcher
- Switch · Paul Sinclair
- The Dangerous Mission · Sergeant John Lewis
- Flatfoot in Hong Kong · Sam Accardo
- S.W.A.T.
- Death Stalk · Hugh Webster
- Pacific Challenge · Narrator
- The Rockford Files · Sen. Evan Murdock, Bob Coleman
- Police Woman · Julian Lord
- The Manhunter
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia · Sappensly
- Murder or Mercy · Dr. Eric Stoneman
- Kojak · David Lawrence
- Double Indemnity · Edward Norton
- The Magician · Arthur Zellman
- Hawkins · Carl Vincent
- Barnaby Jones · Gene Gates, Maxwell Strager
- The Streets of San Francisco
- Banyon
- Search
- Banacek · Jerry Brinkman
- Cutter · Meredith
- $ · Attorney
- Thief · James Calendar
- McMillan & Wife · Charles Meridio
- Cannon
- Macédoine · Sanderberg
- Hauser's Memory · Dorsey
- San Francisco International Airport · Brigadier General Daniel Boyd Goodwin
- The Great White Hope · Dixon
- McCloud
- The Movie Murderer · Karel Kessler
- Love, American Style · Harris
- The Big Bounce · Bob Rodgers
- The Name of the Game · William McKendricks
- Manon 70 · Ravaggi
- Mannix · Tom Carlson
- Don't Make Waves · Rod Prescott