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.
Movie | Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | Self (archive footage) | 2004-07-25 |
Series | Something Is Out There | Commissioner Estabrook | 1988-05-08 |
Movie | The Ladies | Jerry | 1987-06-26 |
Movie | Nuts | Francis MacMillan | 1987-11-20 |
Movie | Assassin | Calvin Lantz | 1986-03-19 |
Movie | Answers | Ted Talbot (Segment "Twinkle, Twinkle") | 1985-01-01 |
Series | Moonlighting | Unknown | 1985-03-03 |
Movie | Wild Geese II | Robert McCann | 1985-10-18 |
Movie | Half Nelson | Harrison | 1985-03-24 |
Movie | In Like Flynn | Col. Harper | 1985-08-14 |
Movie | No Man's Land | Will Blackfield | 1984-05-27 |
Movie | Getting Physical | Hugh Gibley | 1984-03-20 |
Series | Cover Up | Unknown | 1984-09-22 |
Movie | Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land | Felix | 1983-02-27 |
Movie | Shooting Stars | Woodrow Norton | 1983-07-28 |
Movie | Who Dares Wins | General Ira Potter | 1982-08-26 |
Movie | Wrong Is Right | Harvey | 1982-04-16 |
Movie | Not Just Another Affair | Professor Wally Dawson | 1982-10-01 |
Movie | Don't Go to Sleep | Dr. Cole | 1982-12-10 |
Movie | S.O.B. | Ben Coogan | 1981-07-01 |
Movie | The Two Lives of Carol Letner | Ed Leemans | 1981-10-14 |
Movie | All Stars | Harry Stabling | 1980-01-16 |
Movie | Sunday Lovers | Henry Morrison (segment "The French Method") | 1980-10-31 |
Movie | Private Benjamin | Col. Clay Thornbush | 1980-10-06 |
Movie | 10 | Hugh | 1979-10-05 |
Movie | Gardenia | Tony Caruso | 1979-05-05 |
Movie | Courage fuyons | Charley | 1979-10-17 |
Movie | The Streets of L.A. | Ralph Salkin | 1979-11-13 |
Movie | Revenge of the Pink Panther | Philippe Douvier | 1978-01-08 |
Movie | Casey's Shadow | Mike Marsh | 1978-01-01 |
Movie | The Young Runaways | Fred Lockhart | 1978-05-28 |
Series | Kaz | Unknown | 1978-09-10 |
Movie | Madame Claude | Howard | 1977-05-11 |
Movie | Death Steps in the Dark | Inspector | 1977-02-17 |
Movie | The Accuser | Le cadre américain | 1977-09-07 |
Movie | The Choirboys | Deputy Chief Riggs | 1977-12-23 |
Series | Quincy, M.E. | Unknown | 1976-10-03 |
Movie | Midway | Admiral Jack Fletcher | 1976-06-18 |
Movie | Hit Squad | Mr. Douglas | 1976-10-29 |
Movie | Death Stalk | Hugh Webster | 1975-01-21 |
Series | S.W.A.T. | Unknown | 1975-02-24 |
Movie | Pacific Challenge | Narrator | 1975-01-01 |
Movie | The Dangerous Mission | Sergeant John Lewis | 1975-04-22 |
Series | Switch | Unknown | 1975-09-09 |
Movie | Flatfoot in Hong Kong | Sam Accardo | 1975-06-26 |
Movie | Amy Prentiss | Sam Burton | 1974-05-23 |
Movie | Murder or Mercy | Dr. Eric Stoneman | 1974-04-10 |
Movie | Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia | Sappensly | 1974-08-01 |
Series | Police Woman | Unknown | 1974-09-13 |
Series | The Rockford Files | Roman Clementi | 1974-09-13 |
Series | The Manhunter | Unknown | 1974-09-11 |
Movie | Double Indemnity | Edward Norton | 1973-10-13 |
Series | Kojak | Unknown | 1973-10-24 |
Movie | Cutter | Meredith | 1972-01-26 |
Series | Search | Unknown | 1972-09-13 |
Series | The Streets of San Francisco | Unknown | 1972-09-23 |
Series | Banyon | Unknown | 1972-09-15 |
Series | Cannon | Unknown | 1971-09-14 |
Movie | Macédoine | Sanderberg | 1971-01-01 |
Movie | Thief | James Calendar | 1971-10-09 |
Movie | $ | Attorney | 1971-12-15 |
Movie | The Movie Murderer | Karel Kessler | 1970-02-02 |
Series | McCloud | Unknown | 1970-02-17 |
Movie | The Great White Hope | Dixon | 1970-10-11 |
Movie | Hauser's Memory | Dorsey | 1970-11-24 |
Movie | The Big Bounce | Bob Rodgers | 1969-03-05 |
Movie | Manon 70 | Ravaggi | 1968-02-21 |
Movie | Every Man Is My Enemy | Tony Costa | 1967-01-01 |
Series | Ironside | Unknown | 1967-03-28 |
Movie | The Dirty Dozen | General Denton | 1967-06-15 |
Series | Mannix | Unknown | 1967-09-16 |
Movie | Don't Make Waves | Rod Prescott | 1967-06-20 |
Movie | The Silencers | Sam Gunther | 1966-02-18 |
Movie | Harper | Dwight Troy | 1966-02-22 |
Movie | Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round | Milo Stewart | 1966-10-12 |
Movie | The Hired Killer | Clint Harris | 1966-03-25 |
Series | Mission: Impossible | Unknown | 1966-09-17 |
Movie | A Statue for 'The Sandpiper' | Self | 1965-04-30 |
Movie | Hysteria | Chris Smith | 1965-04-01 |
Movie | The Sandpiper | Ward Hendricks | 1965-06-23 |
Movie | The Third Day | Dom Guardiano | 1965-08-04 |
Series | Arrest and Trial | Unknown | 1963-09-15 |
Movie | The Stripper | Ricky Powers | 1963-06-19 |
Series | The Greatest Show on Earth | Unknown | 1963-09-17 |
Series | The Outer Limits | Unknown | 1963-09-16 |
Series | The Fugitive | Unknown | 1963-09-17 |
Series | Kraft Suspense Theatre | Unknown | 1963-10-10 |
Series | Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | Unknown | 1963-10-04 |
Movie | The Nun and the Sergeant | Sgt. McGrath | 1962-01-01 |
Series | Stoney Burke | Unknown | 1962-10-01 |
Series | Ben Casey | Unknown | 1961-10-02 |
Series | Thriller | Unknown | 1960-09-13 |
Series | Route 66 | Unknown | 1960-10-07 |
Series | New York Confidential | Unknown | 1959-01-01 |
Series | One Step Beyond | Unknown | 1959-01-20 |
Series | No Hiding Place | Unknown | 1959-09-16 |
Series | The Rifleman | Unknown | 1958-09-30 |
Series | Naked City | Unknown | 1958-09-30 |
Movie | 12 Angry Men | Juror 12 | 1957-04-10 |
Series | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Unknown | 1955-10-02 |
Series | Tales of Tomorrow | Unknown | 1951-08-03 |
Series | Out There | Unknown | 1951-10-28 |
Series | Robert Montgomery Presents | Unknown | 1950-01-30 |
Movie | Highway 301 | William "Bill" Phillips | 1950-12-01 |
Series | Suspense | Unknown | 1949-01-06 |
Series | Studio One | Unknown | 1948-11-07 |