Robert Webber

Acting

1924-10-14 · Santa Ana, California, USA

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

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

2004 · Movie

Something Is Out There

1988 · Series

Nuts

1987 · Movie

The Ladies

1987 · Movie

Assassin

1986 · Movie

Wild Geese II

1985 · Movie

In Like Flynn

1985 · Movie

Answers

1985 · Movie

Half Nelson

1985 · Movie

Moonlighting

1985 · Series

Cover Up

1984 · Series

No Man's Land

1984 · Movie

Getting Physical

1984 · Movie

Shooting Stars

1983 · Movie

Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land

1983 · Movie

Don't Go to Sleep

1982 · Movie

Not Just Another Affair

1982 · Movie

Who Dares Wins

1982 · Movie

Wrong Is Right

1982 · Movie

Bret Maverick

1981 · Series

Darkroom

1981 · Series

The Two Lives of Carol Letner

1981 · Movie

S.O.B.

1981 · Movie

Sunday Lovers

1980 · Movie

Private Benjamin

1980 · Movie

Tenspeed and Brown Shoe

1980 · Series

All Stars

1980 · Movie

The Streets of L.A.

1979 · Movie

Courage fuyons

1979 · Movie

Gardenia

1979 · Movie

Kaz

1978 · Series

The Young Runaways

1978 · Movie

Revenge of the Pink Panther

1978 · Movie

Casey's Shadow

1978 · Movie

The Choirboys

1977 · Movie

79 Park Avenue

1977 · Series

The Accuser

1977 · Movie

Madame Claude

1977 · Movie

Death Steps in the Dark

1977 · Movie

Hit Squad

1976 · Movie

Quincy, M.E.

1976 · Series

Midway

1976 · Movie

Switch

1975 · Series

The Dangerous Mission

1975 · Movie

Flatfoot in Hong Kong

1975 · Movie

S.W.A.T.

1975 · Series

Death Stalk

1975 · Movie

Pacific Challenge

1975 · Movie

The Rockford Files

1974 · Series

Police Woman

1974 · Series

The Manhunter

1974 · Series

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

1974 · Movie

Murder or Mercy

1974 · Movie

Kojak

1973 · Series

Double Indemnity

1973 · Movie

The Magician

1973 · Series

Hawkins

1973 · Series

Barnaby Jones

1973 · Series

The Streets of San Francisco

1972 · Series

Banyon

1972 · Series

Banacek

1972 · Series

Cutter

1972 · Movie

1971 · Movie

Thief

1971 · Movie

McMillan & Wife

1971 · Series

Cannon

1971 · Series

Macédoine

1971 · Movie

Hauser's Memory

1970 · Movie

San Francisco International Airport

1970 · Series

The Great White Hope

1970 · Movie

McCloud

1970 · Series

The Movie Murderer

1970 · Movie

Love, American Style

1969 · Series

The Big Bounce

1969 · Movie

The Name of the Game

1968 · Series

Manon 70

1968 · Movie

Mannix

1967 · Series

Don't Make Waves

1967 · Movie

The Dirty Dozen

1967 · Movie

Ironside

1967 · Series

Every Man Is My Enemy

1967 · Movie

Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round

1966 · Movie

Mission: Impossible

1966 · Series

The Hired Killer

1966 · Movie

Harper

1966 · Movie

The Silencers

1966 · Movie

The Third Day

1965 · Movie

The Sandpiper

1965 · Movie

A Statue for "The Sandpiper"

1965 · Movie

Hysteria

1965 · Movie

The Rogues

1964 · Series

Kraft Suspense Theatre

1963 · Series

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

1963 · Series

Espionage

1963 · Series

The Fugitive

1963 · Series

The Greatest Show on Earth

1963 · Series

The Outer Limits

1963 · Series

Arrest and Trial

1963 · Series

Sergeant Cork

1963 · Series

The Stripper

1963 · Movie

Stoney Burke

1962 · Series

Steptoe and Son

1962 · Series

The Nun and the Sergeant

1962 · Movie

The Investigators

1961 · Series

Ben Casey

1961 · Series

The Defenders

1961 · Series

Route 66

1960 · Series

Thriller

1960 · Series

No Hiding Place

1959 · Series

One Step Beyond

1959 · Series

New York Confidential

1959 · Series

The Rifleman

1958 · Series

Naked City

1958 · Series

12 Angry Men

1957 · Movie

Our Miss Pemberton

1957 · Series

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1955 · Series

Janet Dean, Registered Nurse

1954 · Series

Out There

1951 · Series

Tales of Tomorrow

1951 · Series

Highway 301

1950 · Movie

Robert Montgomery Presents

1950 · Series

Suspense

1949 · Series

Studio One

1948 · Series