Robert Webber
Acteur·rice
14 octobre 1924
Santa Ana, California, USA
Died 19 mai 1989
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
As an actor
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004 · Self (archive footage)
Something Is Out There
1988 · Commissioner Estabrook
Nuts
1987 · Francis MacMillan
The Ladies
1987 · Jerry
Assassin
1986 · Calvin Lantz
Wild Geese II
1985 · Robert McCann
Answers
1985 · Ted Talbot (Segment "Twinkle, Twinkle")
Half Nelson
1985 · Harrison
In Like Flynn
1985 · Col. Harper
Moonlighting
1985 · Alexander Hayes
Getting Physical
1984 · Hugh Gibley
No Man's Land
1984 · Will Blackfield
Cover Up
1984
Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
1983 · Felix
Shooting Stars
1983 · Woodrow Norton
Wrong Is Right
1982 · Harvey
Who Dares Wins
1982 · General Ira Potter
Don't Go to Sleep
1982 · Dr. Cole
Not Just Another Affair
1982 · Professor Wally Dawson
The Two Lives of Carol Letner
1981 · Ed Leemans
S.O.B.
1981 · Ben Coogan
Bret Maverick
1981 · Everest Sinclair
Darkroom
1981 · Greg Conway
Private Benjamin
1980 · Col. Clay Thornbush
All Stars
1980 · Harry Stabling
Sunday Lovers
1980 · Henry Morrison (segment "The French Method")
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
1980 · Herman LaCross
10
1979 · Hugh
Gardenia
1979 · Tony Caruso
The Streets of L.A.
1979 · Ralph Salkin
Courage fuyons
1979 · Charley
Revenge of the Pink Panther
1978 · Philippe Douvier
Casey's Shadow
1978 · Mike Marsh
The Young Runaways
1978 · Fred Lockhart
Kaz
1978
Death Steps in the Dark
1977 · Inspector
Madame Claude
1977 · Howard
The Choirboys
1977 · Deputy Chief Riggs
The Accuser
1977 · American executive
79 Park Avenue
1977 · John Hackson DeWitt
Midway
1976 · Admiral Jack Fletcher
Hit Squad
1976 · Mr. Douglas
Quincy, M.E.
1976 · Dr. John Franklin
Pacific Challenge
1975 · Narrator
The Dangerous Mission
1975 · Sergeant John Lewis
Death Stalk
1975 · Hugh Webster
Flatfoot in Hong Kong
1975 · Sam Accardo
Switch
1975 · Paul Sinclair
S.W.A.T.
1975
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
1974 · Sappensly
Murder or Mercy
1974 · Dr. Eric Stoneman
The Manhunter
1974
The Rockford Files
1974 · Sen. Evan Murdock, Bob Coleman, Roman Clementi, Harold Jack Coombs
Police Woman
1974 · Julian Lord
Double Indemnity
1973 · Edward Norton
Hawkins
1973 · Carl Vincent
Kojak
1973 · David Lawrence
The Magician
1973 · Arthur Zellman
Barnaby Jones
1973 · Gene Gates, Maxwell Strager
Cutter
1972 · Meredith
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
Search
1972
Banyon
1972
Banacek
1972 · Jerry Brinkman
$
1971 · Attorney
Thief
1971 · James Calendar
Macédoine
1971 · Sanderberg
Cannon
1971
McMillan & Wife
1971 · Charles Meridio
The Movie Murderer
1970 · Karel Kessler
The Great White Hope
1970 · Dixon
Hauser's Memory
1970 · Dorsey
McCloud
1970
San Francisco International Airport
1970 · Brigadier General Daniel Boyd Goodwin
The Big Bounce
1969 · Bob Rodgers
Love, American Style
1969 · Harris
Manon 70
1968 · Ravaggi
The Name of the Game
1968 · William McKendricks
The Dirty Dozen
1967 · General Denton
Don't Make Waves
1967 · Rod Prescott
Every Man Is My Enemy
1967 · Tony Costa
Ironside
1967 · Sam Burton
Mannix
1967 · Tom Carlson
The Silencers
1966 · Sam Gunther
Harper
1966 · Dwight Troy
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
1966 · Milo Stewart
The Hired Killer
1966 · Clint Harris
Mission: Impossible
1966 · Charles Rogan
Hysteria
1965 · Chris Smith
The Sandpiper
1965 · Ward Hendricks
The Third Day
1965 · Dom Guardiano
A Statue for "The Sandpiper"
1965 · Self
The Rogues
1964 · Guy Gabriel
The Stripper
1963 · Ricky Powers
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963 · Robert Burke
The Greatest Show on Earth
1963
The Fugitive
1963 · Harlan Guthrie
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
The Outer Limits
1963 · Ikar
Arrest and Trial
1963 · George Morrison
Espionage
1963 · Jack Hanley
The Nun and the Sergeant
1962 · Sgt. McGrath
Stoney Burke
1962
Ben Casey
1961
The Defenders
1961 · Douglas, Michael Hillyer, Father Phelps
The Investigators
1961 · Bert Crayne
Route 66
1960
Thriller
1960 · Arthur Henshaw
One Step Beyond
1959 · Andrew Courtney
No Hiding Place
1959
New York Confidential
1959
Naked City
1958 · Gordon Lanning
The Rifleman
1958 · Wes Carney
12 Angry Men
1957 · Juror 12
Our Miss Pemberton
1957 · Vicar
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · Paul Brett, Harrison Fell, Edward Gibson
Janet Dean, Registered Nurse
1954
Tales of Tomorrow
1951
Out There
1951
Highway 301
1950 · William "Bill" Phillips
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950 · Philip, George Lawrence
Suspense
1949 · James Forsythe
Studio One
1948 · Skeets - Henchman / Bodyguard, Chase