Robert Webber
- Recitazione
- 14 ottobre 1924 · Santa Ana, California, USA
- 19 maggio 1989
Biografia
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.
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Filmografia
- Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade · In persona
- Something Is Out There · Commissioner Estabrook
- Pazza · Francis MacMillan
- The Ladies · Jerry
- Assassin · Calvin Lantz
- I quattro dell'oca selvaggia 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
- Non andate a dormire · Dr. Cole
- Non il solito affare · Professor Wally Dawson
- Chi osa vince · General Ira Potter
- Obiettivo mortale · Harvey
- Bret Maverick · Everest Sinclair
- Darkroom · Greg Conway
- The Two Lives of Carol Letner · Ed Leemans
- S.O.B. · Ben Coogan
- I seduttori della domenica · Henry Morrison (segment "The French Method")
- Soldato Giulia agli ordini · Col. Clay Thornbush
- Tenspeed and Brown Shoe · Herman LaCross
- Tous vedettes ! · Harry Stabling
- The Streets of L.A. · Ralph Salkin
- Coraggio scappiamo · Charley
- 10 · Hugh
- Gardenia, il giustiziere della mala · Tony Caruso
- Kaz
- The Young Runaways · Fred Lockhart
- La vendetta della Pantera Rosa · Philippe Douvier
- Ultimo handicap · Mike Marsh
- I ragazzi del coro · Deputy Chief Riggs
- 79 Park Avenue · John Hackson DeWitt
- L'Imprécateur · American executive
- The French Woman · Howard
- Passi di morte perduti nel buio · Inspector
- Squadra antifurto · Mr. Douglas
- Quincy · Dr. John Franklin
- La battaglia di Midway · Admiral Jack Fletcher
- Switch · Paul Sinclair
- Soldat Duroc, ça va être ta fête ! · Sergeant John Lewis
- Piedone a Hong Kong · Sam Accardo
- S.W.A.T.
- Death Stalk · Hugh Webster
- Pacific Challenge · Narrator
- Agenzia Rockford · Sen. Evan Murdock, Bob Coleman
- Pepper Anderson agente speciale · Julian Lord
- The Manhunter
- Voglio la testa di 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
- Le strade di San Francisco
- Detective anni trenta
- Search
- Banacek · Jerry Brinkman
- Cutter · Meredith
- Il genio della rapina · Attorney
- Thief · James Calendar
- McMillan e signora · Charles Meridio
- Cannon
- Macédoine · Sanderberg
- La morte viene dal passato · Dorsey
- San Francisco International Airport · Brigadier General Daniel Boyd Goodwin
- Per salire più in basso · Dixon
- Uno sceriffo a New York
- L'incendiario · Karel Kessler
- Love, American Style · Harris
- Io sono perversa · Bob Rodgers
- Reporter alla ribalta · William McKendricks
- Manon 70 · Ravaggi
- Mannix · Tom Carlson
- Piano piano non t'agitare · Rod Prescott