Robert Webber
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 14, 1924
- Died
- May 19, 1989 (aged 64)
- Birthplace
- Santa Ana, California, USA
Biography
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
Filmography
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Something Is Out There
TV · as Commissioner Estabrook · 2 eps
Nuts
Movie · as Francis MacMillan
The Ladies
Movie · as Jerry
Assassin
Movie · as Calvin Lantz
Wild Geese II
Movie · as Robert McCann
In Like Flynn
Movie · as Col. Harper
Answers
Movie · as Ted Talbot (Segment "Twinkle, Twinkle")
Half Nelson
Movie · as Harrison
Moonlighting
TV · as Alexander Hayes · 6 eps
Getting Physical
Movie · as Hugh Gibley
No Man's Land
Movie · as Will Blackfield
Cover Up
TV · 2 eps
Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
Movie · as Felix
Shooting Stars
Movie · as Woodrow Norton
Wrong Is Right
Movie · as Harvey
Who Dares Wins
Movie · as General Ira Potter
Don't Go to Sleep
Movie · as Dr. Cole
Not Just Another Affair
Movie · as Professor Wally Dawson
The Two Lives of Carol Letner
Movie · as Ed Leemans
S.O.B.
Movie · as Ben Coogan
Bret Maverick
TV · as Everest Sinclair · 2 eps
Darkroom
TV · as Greg Conway · 1 ep
Private Benjamin
Movie · as Col. Clay Thornbush
All Stars
Movie · as Harry Stabling
Sunday Lovers
Movie · as Henry Morrison (segment "The French Method")
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
TV · as Herman LaCross · 1 ep
10
Movie · as Hugh
Gardenia
Movie · as Tony Caruso
The Streets of L.A.
Movie · as Ralph Salkin
Courage fuyons
Movie · as Charley
Revenge of the Pink Panther
Movie · as Philippe Douvier
Casey's Shadow
Movie · as Mike Marsh
The Young Runaways
Movie · as Fred Lockhart
Kaz
TV · 1 ep
Death Steps in the Dark
Movie · as Inspector
Madame Claude
Movie · as Howard
The Choirboys
Movie · as Deputy Chief Riggs
The Accuser
Movie · as American executive
79 Park Avenue
TV · as John Hackson DeWitt · 1 ep
Midway
Movie · as Admiral Jack Fletcher
Hit Squad
Movie · as Mr. Douglas
Quincy, M.E.
TV · as Dr. John Franklin · 1 ep
Pacific Challenge
Movie · as Narrator
The Dangerous Mission
Movie · as Sergeant John Lewis
Death Stalk
Movie · as Hugh Webster
Flatfoot in Hong Kong
Movie · as Sam Accardo
Switch
TV · as Paul Sinclair · 1 ep
S.W.A.T.
TV · 2 eps
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Movie · as Sappensly
Murder or Mercy
Movie · as Dr. Eric Stoneman
The Manhunter
TV · 1 ep
The Rockford Files
TV · as Sen. Evan Murdock, Bob Coleman, Roman Clementi, Harold Jack Coombs · 1 ep
Police Woman
TV · as Julian Lord · 1 ep
Double Indemnity
Movie · as Edward Norton
Hawkins
TV · as Carl Vincent · 1 ep
Kojak
TV · as David Lawrence · 1 ep
The Magician
TV · as Arthur Zellman · 1 ep
Barnaby Jones
TV · as Gene Gates, Maxwell Strager · 2 eps
Cutter
Movie · as Meredith
The Streets of San Francisco
TV · 1 ep
Search
TV · 1 ep
Banyon
TV · 1 ep
Banacek
TV · as Jerry Brinkman · 1 ep
$
Movie · as Attorney
Thief
Movie · as James Calendar
Macédoine
Movie · as Sanderberg
Cannon
TV · 4 eps
McMillan & Wife
TV · as Charles Meridio · 1 ep
The Great White Hope
Movie · as Dixon
The Movie Murderer
Movie · as Karel Kessler
Hauser's Memory
Movie · as Dorsey
McCloud
TV · 2 eps
San Francisco International Airport
TV · as Brigadier General Daniel Boyd Goodwin · 1 ep
The Big Bounce
Movie · as Bob Rodgers
Love, American Style
TV · as Harris · 1 ep
Manon 70
Movie · as Ravaggi
The Name of the Game
TV · as William McKendricks · 1 ep
The Dirty Dozen
Movie · as General Denton
Don't Make Waves
Movie · as Rod Prescott
Every Man Is My Enemy
Movie · as Tony Costa
Ironside
TV · as Sam Burton · 1 ep
Mannix
TV · as Tom Carlson · 1 ep
The Silencers
Movie · as Sam Gunther
Harper
Movie · as Dwight Troy
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
Movie · as Milo Stewart
The Hired Killer
Movie · as Clint Harris
Mission: Impossible
TV · as Charles Rogan · 1 ep
Hysteria
Movie · as Chris Smith
The Sandpiper
Movie · as Ward Hendricks
The Third Day
Movie · as Dom Guardiano
A Statue for "The Sandpiper"
Movie · as Self
The Rogues
TV · as Guy Gabriel · 1 ep
The Stripper
Movie · as Ricky Powers
Kraft Suspense Theatre
TV · as Robert Burke · 1 ep
The Greatest Show on Earth
TV · 1 ep
The Fugitive
TV · as Harlan Guthrie · 1 ep
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV · 1 ep
The Outer Limits
TV · as Ikar · 1 ep
Arrest and Trial
TV · as George Morrison · 1 ep
Espionage
TV · as Jack Hanley · 1 ep
Sergeant Cork
TV · as Greeley · 1 ep
The Nun and the Sergeant
Movie · as Sgt. McGrath
Stoney Burke
TV · 1 ep
Steptoe and Son
TV · as Vicar · 1 ep
Ben Casey
TV · 1 ep
The Defenders
TV · as Michael Hillyer, Douglas, Father Phelps · 1 ep
The Investigators
TV · as Bert Crayne · 1 ep
Route 66
TV · 1 ep
Thriller
TV · as Arthur Henshaw · 1 ep
One Step Beyond
TV · as Andrew Courtney · 1 ep
No Hiding Place
TV · 1 ep
New York Confidential
TV · 2 eps
Naked City
TV · as Gordon Lanning · 1 ep
The Rifleman
TV · as Wes Carney · 1 ep
12 Angry Men
Movie · as Juror 12
Our Miss Pemberton
TV · as Vicar · 56 eps
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV · as Paul Brett, Harrison Fell, Edward Gibson · 1 ep
Janet Dean, Registered Nurse
TV · 1 ep
Tales of Tomorrow
TV · 1 ep
Out There
TV · 1 ep
Highway 301
Movie · as William "Bill" Phillips
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV · as Philip, George Lawrence · 2 eps
Suspense
TV · as James Forsythe · 1 ep
Studio One
TV · as Skeets - Henchman / Bodyguard, Chase · 1 ep