Robert Webber
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
Credits
- 2004 · Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Self (archive footage)
- 1988 · Something Is Out There as Commissioner Estabrook
- 1987 · Nuts as Francis MacMillan
- 1987 · The Ladies as Jerry
- 1986 · Assassin as Calvin Lantz
- 1985 · Wild Geese II as Robert McCann
- 1985 · In Like Flynn as Col. Harper
- 1985 · Half Nelson as Harrison
- 1985 · Moonlighting as Alexander Hayes
- 1985 · Answers as Ted Talbot (Segment "Twinkle, Twinkle")
- 1984 · Cover Up as
- 1984 · Cover Up as Mason Carter
- 1984 · No Man's Land as Will Blackfield
- 1984 · Getting Physical as Hugh Gibley
- 1983 · Shooting Stars as Woodrow Norton
- 1983 · Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land as Felix
- 1982 · Don't Go to Sleep as Dr. Cole
- 1982 · Not Just Another Affair as Professor Wally Dawson
- 1982 · Who Dares Wins as General Ira Potter
- 1982 · Wrong Is Right as Harvey
- 1981 · The Two Lives of Carol Letner as Ed Leemans
- 1981 · S.O.B. as Ben Coogan
- 1980 · Sunday Lovers as Henry Morrison (segment "The French Method")
- 1980 · Private Benjamin as Col. Clay Thornbush
- 1980 · All Stars as Harry Stabling
- 1979 · The Streets of L.A. as Ralph Salkin
- 1979 · Courage fuyons as Charley
- 1979 · 10 as Hugh
- 1979 · Gardenia as Tony Caruso
- 1978 · Kaz as
- 1978 · The Young Runaways as Fred Lockhart
- 1978 · Revenge of the Pink Panther as Philippe Douvier
- 1978 · Casey's Shadow as Mike Marsh
- 1977 · The Choirboys as Deputy Chief Riggs
- 1977 · 79 Park Avenue as John Hackson DeWitt
- 1977 · The Accuser as Le cadre américain
- 1977 · Madame Claude as Howard
- 1977 · Death Steps in the Dark as Inspector
- 1976 · Hit Squad as Mr. Douglas
- 1976 · Quincy, M.E. as
- 1976 · Quincy, M.E. as Dr. John Franklin
- 1976 · Midway as Admiral Jack Fletcher
- 1975 · Switch as Paul Sinclair
- 1975 · The Dangerous Mission as Sergeant John Lewis
- 1975 · Flatfoot in Hong Kong as Sam Accardo
- 1975 · S.W.A.T. as
- 1975 · Death Stalk as Hugh Webster
- 1975 · Pacific Challenge as Narrator
- 1974 · The Rockford Files as Sen. Evan Murdock
- 1974 · The Rockford Files as Bob Coleman
- 1974 · The Rockford Files as Roman Clementi
- 1974 · The Rockford Files as Harold Jack Coombs
- 1974 · Police Woman as Julian Lord
- 1974 · The Manhunter as
- 1974 · Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia as Sappensly
- 1974 · Murder or Mercy as Dr. Eric Stoneman
- 1973 · Kojak as David Lawrence
- 1973 · Double Indemnity as Edward Norton
- 1973 · The Magician as Arthur Zellman
- 1973 · Hawkins as Carl Vincent
- 1973 · Barnaby Jones as Gene Gates
- 1972 · The Streets of San Francisco as
- 1972 · Banyon as
- 1972 · Banacek as Jerry Brinkman
- 1972 · Search as
- 1972 · Cutter as Meredith
- 1971 · $ as Attorney
- 1971 · Thief as James Calendar
- 1971 · McMillan and Wife as Charles Meridio
- 1971 · Cannon as
- 1971 · Macédoine as Sanderberg
- 1970 · Hauser's Memory as Dorsey
- 1970 · The Great White Hope as Dixon
- 1970 · McCloud as
- 1970 · The Movie Murderer as Karel Kessler
- 1969 · Love, American Style as Harris
- 1969 · The Big Bounce as Bob Rodgers
- 1968 · The Name of the Game as William McKendricks
- 1968 · Manon 70 as Ravaggi
- 1967 · Mannix as
- 1967 · Don't Make Waves as Rod Prescott
- 1967 · The Dirty Dozen as General Denton
- 1967 · Ironside as
- 1967 · Ironside as Sam Burton
- 1967 · Every Man Is My Enemy as Tony Costa
- 1966 · Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round as Milo Stewart
- 1966 · Mission: Impossible as Charles Rogan
- 1966 · The Hired Killer as Clint Harris
- 1966 · Harper as Dwight Troy
- 1966 · The Silencers as Sam Gunther
- 1965 · The Third Day as Dom Guardiano
- 1965 · The Sandpiper as Ward Hendricks
- 1965 · A Statue for 'The Sandpiper' as Self
- 1965 · Hysteria as Chris Smith
- 1964 · The Rogues as Guy Gabriel
- 1963 · Kraft Suspense Theatre as Robert Burke
- 1963 · Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as
- 1963 · The Fugitive as Harlan Guthrie
- 1963 · The Greatest Show on Earth as
- 1963 · The Outer Limits as Ikar
- 1963 · Arrest and Trial as
- 1963 · The Stripper as Ricky Powers
- 1962 · Stoney Burke as
- 1962 · The Nun and the Sergeant as Sgt. McGrath
- 1961 · Ben Casey as
- 1961 · The Defenders as Douglas
- 1961 · The Defenders as Michael Hillyer
- 1961 · The Defenders as Father Phelps
- 1960 · Route 66 as
- 1960 · Thriller as Arthur Henshaw
- 1959 · No Hiding Place as
- 1959 · One Step Beyond as Andrew Courtney
- 1959 · New York Confidential as
- 1958 · The Rifleman as Wes Carney
- 1958 · Naked City as Gordon Lanning
- 1957 · 12 Angry Men as Juror 12
- 1955 · Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Paul Brett
- 1955 · Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Harrison Fell
- 1955 · Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Edward Gibson
- 1952 · Plan For Escape as
- 1951 · Out There as
- 1951 · Tales of Tomorrow as
- 1950 · Highway 301 as William "Bill" Phillips
- 1950 · Robert Montgomery Presents as
- 1950 · Robert Montgomery Presents as Philip
- 1949 · Suspense as James Forsythe
- 1948 · Studio One as
- 1948 · Studio One as Skeets - Henchman / Bodyguard