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.
65 movies · 59 shows
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004·8.0
Nuts
1987·6.3
The Ladies
1987·9.0
Assassin
1986·5.1
Wild Geese II
1985·4.9
In Like Flynn
1985·6.5
Answers
1985·0.0
Half Nelson
1985·0.0
No Man's Land
1984·6.5
Getting Physical
1984·4.3
Shooting Stars
1983·5.0
Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
1983·5.0
Don't Go to Sleep
1982·6.5
Not Just Another Affair
1982·5.4
Who Dares Wins
1982·6.3
Wrong Is Right
1982·5.6
The Two Lives of Carol Letner
1981·9.0
S.O.B.
1981·6.0
Sunday Lovers
1980·5.8
Private Benjamin
1980·5.9
All Stars
1980·8.0
The Streets of L.A.
1979·7.0
Courage fuyons
1979·6.1
10
1979·5.8
Gardenia
1979·6.1
The Young Runaways
1978·7.0
Revenge of the Pink Panther
1978·6.4
Casey's Shadow
1978·6.4
The Choirboys
1977·5.5
The Accuser
1977·6.2
Madame Claude
1977·4.9
Death Steps in the Dark
1977·5.0
Hit Squad
1976·6.6
Midway
1976·6.6
The Dangerous Mission
1975·4.8
Flatfoot in Hong Kong
1975·6.2
Death Stalk
1975·5.9
Pacific Challenge
1975·7.5
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
1974·7.1
Murder or Mercy
1974·10.0
Double Indemnity
1973·4.7
Cutter
1972·9.0
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1971·6.2
Thief
1971·7.4
Macédoine
1971·9.0
Hauser's Memory
1970·6.8
The Great White Hope
1970·6.3
The Movie Murderer
1970·6.9
The Big Bounce
1969·5.1
Manon 70
1968·5.4
Don't Make Waves
1967·5.2
The Dirty Dozen
1967·7.6
Every Man Is My Enemy
1967·3.5
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
1966·5.6
The Hired Killer
1966·5.5
Harper
1966·6.7
The Silencers
1966·6.0
The Third Day
1965·5.6
The Sandpiper
1965·6.4
A Statue for "The Sandpiper"
1965·7.3
Hysteria
1965·6.5
The Stripper
1963·4.6
The Nun and the Sergeant
1962·5.0
12 Angry Men
1957·8.6
Highway 301
1950·6.4