
Robert Webber
Born October 14, 1924 · 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.
Notable Appearances
Movies

12 Angry Men

The Dirty Dozen

Midway

Revenge of the Pink Panther

Manon 70

Private Benjamin

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

10

Who Dares Wins

Harper

Flatfoot in Hong Kong

Don't Make Waves

Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land

The Silencers

The Sandpiper

Madame Claude

Wild Geese II

No Man's Land

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round

Wrong Is Right

Hit Squad

The Choirboys

The Great White Hope

Not Just Another Affair

S.O.B.

Nuts

Assassin

The Hired Killer

Sunday Lovers

Don't Go to Sleep

Half Nelson

Answers

The Nun and the Sergeant

The Streets of L.A.

The Dangerous Mission

Courage fuyons

The Two Lives of Carol Letner

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Highway 301

Double Indemnity

Gardenia

Casey's Shadow

The Movie Murderer

Shooting Stars

Every Man Is My Enemy

Getting Physical

Hauser's Memory

Death Steps in the Dark

Hysteria

The Stripper
TV Shows

The Fugitive

The Rockford Files

Quincy, M.E.

The Rifleman

Robert Montgomery Presents

Cannon

Studio One

The Name of the Game

Naked City

The Defenders

Moonlighting

Ben Casey

Police Woman

Route 66

Barnaby Jones

The Outer Limits

Kojak

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

One Step Beyond

Switch

Thriller

McCloud

No Hiding Place

The Streets of San Francisco

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Suspense

McMillan & Wife

Arrest and Trial

Banacek

The Manhunter

Espionage

The Rogues

Stoney Burke

Tales of Tomorrow

The Magician

Cover Up

Steptoe and Son

Sergeant Cork

Kaz

Hawkins

S.W.A.T.

Tenspeed and Brown Shoe

Darkroom

Banyon

Bret Maverick

The Investigators

New York Confidential

Search

San Francisco International Airport

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