Robert Webber

Known for ActingBorn 1924-10-14Died 1989-05-19Santa 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Murder or Mercy

Espionage

New York Confidential

Out There

The Ladies

The Two Lives of Carol Letner

Cutter

Macédoine

Banacek

12 Angry Men

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

Arrest and Trial

All Stars

Banyon

The Rogues

Hawkins

Something Is Out There

The Outer Limits

Moonlighting

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The Rockford Files

Quincy, M.E.

The Dirty Dozen

Pacific Challenge

Mission: Impossible

The Greatest Show on Earth

Thief

A Statue for "The Sandpiper"

The Fugitive

Kojak

McCloud

S.W.A.T.

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

Search

The Streets of L.A.

The Young Runaways

Kaz

Cover Up

The Manhunter

The Streets of San Francisco

Barnaby Jones

San Francisco International Airport

The Name of the Game

The Rifleman

McMillan & Wife

Tenspeed and Brown Shoe

The Movie Murderer

The Magician