
Robert Webber
Department: Acting
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

The Dirty Dozen
1967

Don't Make Waves
1967

Private Benjamin
1980

Revenge of the Pink Panther
1978

Midway
1976

The Silencers
1966

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
1974

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1971

Wrong Is Right
1982

Harper
1966

10
1979

Nuts
1987

Highway 301
1950

Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
1983

Wild Geese II
1985

Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
1966

Who Dares Wins
1982

Hysteria
1965

Double Indemnity
1973

Don't Go to Sleep
1982

The Sandpiper
1965

Death Steps in the Dark
1977

The Third Day
1965

Madame Claude
1977

The Stripper
1963

Pacific Challenge
1975

Gardenia
1979

The Dangerous Mission
1975

Death Stalk
1975

Thief
1971

Not Just Another Affair
1982

The Hired Killer
1966

The Streets of L.A.
1979

Courage fuyons
1979

Every Man Is My Enemy
1967

Manon 70
1968

The Two Lives of Carol Letner
1981

The Choirboys
1977

The Nun and the Sergeant
1962

The Big Bounce
1969

The Movie Murderer
1970

The Great White Hope
1970

Hauser's Memory
1970

Macédoine
1971

Cutter
1972

Murder or Mercy
1974

Flatfoot in Hong Kong
1975

The Accuser
1977

Casey's Shadow
1978

All Stars
1980

Sunday Lovers
1980

S.O.B.
1981

Shooting Stars
1983

Getting Physical
1984

No Man's Land
1984

Answers
1985

Half Nelson
1985

In Like Flynn
1985

The Ladies
1987

The Young Runaways
1978

A Statue for 'The Sandpiper'
1965

Hit Squad
1976

Assassin
1986

12 Angry Men
1957

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004

Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963

Quincy, M.E.
1976

Route 66
1960

Moonlighting
1985

The Streets of San Francisco
1972

Hawkins
1973

Kaz
1978

Naked City
1958

Kojak
1973

Studio One
1948

Cannon
1971

Cover Up
1984

Ironside
1967

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

The Greatest Show on Earth
1963

The Fugitive
1963

Switch
1975

S.W.A.T.
1975

Thriller
1960

Search
1972

McCloud
1970

Banyon
1972

One Step Beyond
1959

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963

No Hiding Place
1959

Ben Casey
1961

Suspense
1949

Robert Montgomery Presents
1950

The Manhunter
1974

New York Confidential
1959

Tales of Tomorrow
1951

The Rogues
1964

Stoney Burke
1962

The Defenders
1961

The Defenders
1961

The Defenders
1961

The Outer Limits
1963

Out There
1951

The Magician
1973

Love, American Style
1969

Robert Montgomery Presents
1950

Something Is Out There
1988

The Name of the Game
1968

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

The Rockford Files
1974

The Rockford Files
1974

Studio One
1948

Ironside
1967

The Rockford Files
1974

McMillan & Wife
1971

Mission: Impossible
1966

Quincy, M.E.
1976

Barnaby Jones
1973

Banacek
1972

Police Woman
1974

The Rifleman
1958

79 Park Avenue
1977

The Rockford Files
1974

Bret Maverick
1981

Barnaby Jones
1973

The Investigators
1961

Mannix
1967

Robert Montgomery Presents
1950

Our Miss Pemberton
1957

Janet Dean, Registered Nurse
1954

Studio One
1948

Arrest and Trial
1963

San Francisco International Airport
1970

Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
1980