Robert Webber
Acting
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.
TV Shows(57)
Something Is Out There
Commissioner Estabrook
1988
Moonlighting
Alexander Hayes
1985
Cover Up
1984
Bret Maverick
Everest Sinclair
1981
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
Herman LaCross
1980
Kaz
1978
79 Park Avenue
John Hackson DeWitt
1977
Quincy, M.E.
1976
Switch
Paul Sinclair
1975
S.W.A.T.
1975
The Rockford Files
Sen. Evan Murdock
1974
Police Woman
Julian Lord
1974
The Manhunter
1974
Kojak
David Lawrence
1973
The Magician
Arthur Zellman
1973
Hawkins
Carl Vincent
1973
Barnaby Jones
Gene Gates
1973
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
Banyon
1972
Search
1972
Banacek
Jerry Brinkman
1972
McMillan & Wife
Charles Meridio
1971
Cannon
1971
San Francisco International Airport
Brigadier General Daniel Boyd Goodwin
1970
McCloud
1970
Love, American Style
Harris
1969
The Name of the Game
William McKendricks
1968
Mannix
Tom Carlson
1967
Ironside
1967
Mission: Impossible
Charles Rogan
1966
The Rogues
Guy Gabriel
1964
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Robert Burke
1963
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
Espionage
Jack Hanley
1963
The Greatest Show on Earth
1963
The Fugitive
Harlan Guthrie
1963
The Outer Limits
Ikar
1963
Arrest and Trial
George Morrison
1963
Stoney Burke
1962
The Investigators
Bert Crayne
1961
Ben Casey
1961
The Defenders
Douglas
1961
Route 66
1960
Thriller
Arthur Henshaw
1960
No Hiding Place
1959
One Step Beyond
Andrew Courtney
1959
New York Confidential
1959
Naked City
Gordon Lanning
1958
The Rifleman
Wes Carney
1958
Our Miss Pemberton
Vicar
1957
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Paul Brett
1955
Janet Dean, Registered Nurse
1954
Out There
1951
Tales of Tomorrow
1951
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Suspense
James Forsythe
1949
Studio One
1948
Movies(65)
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Self (archive footage)
2004
Nuts
Francis MacMillan
1987
The Ladies
Jerry
1987
Assassin
Calvin Lantz
1986
Wild Geese II
Robert McCann
1985
In Like Flynn
Col. Harper
1985
Answers
Ted Talbot (Segment "Twinkle, Twinkle")
1985
Half Nelson
Harrison
1985
No Man's Land
Will Blackfield
1984
Getting Physical
Hugh Gibley
1984
Shooting Stars
Woodrow Norton
1983
Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
Felix
1983
Don't Go to Sleep
Dr. Cole
1982
Not Just Another Affair
Professor Wally Dawson
1982
Who Dares Wins
General Ira Potter
1982
Wrong Is Right
Harvey
1982
The Two Lives of Carol Letner
Ed Leemans
1981
S.O.B.
Ben Coogan
1981
Sunday Lovers
Henry Morrison (segment "The French Method")
1980
Private Benjamin
Col. Clay Thornbush
1980
All Stars
Harry Stabling
1980
The Streets of L.A.
Ralph Salkin
1979
Courage fuyons
Charley
1979
10
Hugh
1979
Gardenia
Tony Caruso
1979
The Young Runaways
Fred Lockhart
1978
Revenge of the Pink Panther
Philippe Douvier
1978
Casey's Shadow
Mike Marsh
1978
The Choirboys
Deputy Chief Riggs
1977
The Accuser
American executive
1977
Madame Claude
Howard
1977
Death Steps in the Dark
Inspector
1977
Hit Squad
Mr. Douglas
1976
Midway
Admiral Jack Fletcher
1976
The Dangerous Mission
Sergeant John Lewis
1975
Flatfoot in Hong Kong
Sam Accardo
1975
Death Stalk
Hugh Webster
1975
Pacific Challenge
Narrator
1975
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Sappensly
1974
Murder or Mercy
Dr. Eric Stoneman
1974
Double Indemnity
Edward Norton
1973
Cutter
Meredith
1972
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Attorney
1971
Thief
James Calendar
1971
Macédoine
Sanderberg
1971
Hauser's Memory
Dorsey
1970
The Great White Hope
Dixon
1970
The Movie Murderer
Karel Kessler
1970
The Big Bounce
Bob Rodgers
1969
Manon 70
Ravaggi
1968
Don't Make Waves
Rod Prescott
1967
The Dirty Dozen
General Denton
1967
Every Man Is My Enemy
Tony Costa
1967
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
Milo Stewart
1966
The Hired Killer
Clint Harris
1966
Harper
Dwight Troy
1966
The Silencers
Sam Gunther
1966
The Third Day
Dom Guardiano
1965
The Sandpiper
Ward Hendricks
1965
A Statue for 'The Sandpiper'
Self
1965
Hysteria
Chris Smith
1965
The Stripper
Ricky Powers
1963
The Nun and the Sergeant
Sgt. McGrath
1962
12 Angry Men
Juror 12
1957
Highway 301
William "Bill" Phillips
1950