Robert Webber
- Schauspiel
- 14. Oktober 1924 · Santa Ana, California, USA
- 19. Mai 1989
Biografie
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.
Bekannt aus
Filmografie
- Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade · Selbst
- Zeit des Grauens · Commissioner Estabrook
- Nuts… Durchgedreht · Francis MacMillan
- The Ladies · Jerry
- Special Terminator C.I.A. · Calvin Lantz
- Wildgänse 2 · Robert McCann
- Der glitzernde Tod · Col. Harper
- Answers · Ted Talbot (Segment "Twinkle, Twinkle")
- Half Nelson · Harrison
- Das Model und der Schnüffler · Alexander Hayes
- Cover Up
- No Man's Land · Will Blackfield
- Getting Physical · Hugh Gibley
- Shooting Stars · Woodrow Norton
- Starflight One - Irrflug ins Weltall · Felix
- Don't Go to Sleep · Dr. Cole
- Auf einmal ist es Liebe · Professor Wally Dawson
- Das Kommando · General Ira Potter
- Flammen am Horizont · Harvey
- Bret Maverick · Everest Sinclair
- Meine schwarze Stunde · Greg Conway
- The Two Lives of Carol Letner · Ed Leemans
- S.O.B. - Hollywoods letzter Heuler · Ben Coogan
- Vier Asse hauen auf die Pauke · Henry Morrison (segment "The French Method")
- Schütze Benjamin · Col. Clay Thornbush
- Die Schnüffler · Herman LaCross
- Tous vedettes ! · Harry Stabling
- The Streets of L.A. · Ralph Salkin
- Jetzt oder nie! · Charley
- Zehn - Die Traumfrau · Hugh
- Gardenia, il giustiziere della mala · Tony Caruso
- Kaz & Co
- The Young Runaways · Fred Lockhart
- Inspektor Clouseau - Der irre Flic mit dem heißen Blick · Philippe Douvier
- Der Champion · Mike Marsh
- Die Chorknaben · Deputy Chief Riggs
- 79 Park Avenue · John Hackson DeWitt
- L'Imprécateur · American executive
- Madame Claude und ihre Gazellen · Howard
- Passi di morte perduti nel buio · Inspector
- Hippie Nico von der Kripo · Mr. Douglas
- Quincy · Dr. John Franklin
- Schlacht um Midway · Admiral Jack Fletcher
- Die Zwei mit dem Dreh · Paul Sinclair
- Die Laus der Kompanie · Sergeant John Lewis
- Plattfuss räumt auf · Sam Accardo
- Die knallharten Fünf
- Death Stalk · Hugh Webster
- Pacific Challenge · Narrator
- Detektiv Rockford - Anruf genügt · Sen. Evan Murdock, Bob Coleman
- Make-Up und Pistolen · Julian Lord
- The Manhunter
- Bring mir den Kopf von Alfredo Garcia · Sappensly
- Murder or Mercy · Dr. Eric Stoneman
- Kojak · David Lawrence
- Double Indemnity · Edward Norton
- Der Magier · Arthur Zellman
- Hawkins · Carl Vincent
- Barnaby Jones · Gene Gates, Maxwell Strager
- Die Straßen von San Francisco
- Los Angeles 1937
- Search
- Banacek · Jerry Brinkman
- Cutter · Meredith
- Der Millionenraub · Attorney
- Thief · James Calendar
- McMillan & Wife · Charles Meridio
- Cannon
- Macédoine · Sanderberg
- Ständig in Angst · Dorsey
- San Francisco Airport · Brigadier General Daniel Boyd Goodwin
- Die große weiße Hoffnung · Dixon
- Ein Sheriff in New York
- Jagd auf den Kinomörder · Karel Kessler
- Wo die Liebe hinfällt · Harris
- Nancy, ein eiskaltes Playgirl · Bob Rodgers
- The Name of the Game · William McKendricks
- Hemmungslose Manon · Ravaggi
- Mannix · Tom Carlson
- Die nackten Tatsachen · Rod Prescott