1924-10-14 Santa 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.
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Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | Self (archive footage) | 2004-07-25 |
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Nuts | Francis MacMillan | 1987-11-20 |
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The Ladies | Jerry | 1987-06-26 |
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Assassin | Calvin Lantz | 1986-03-19 |
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In Like Flynn | Col. Harper | 1985-08-14 |
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Answers | Ted Talbot (Segment "Twinkle, Twinkle") | 1985-01-01 |
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Wild Geese II | Robert McCann | 1985-10-18 |
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Half Nelson | Harrison | 1985-03-24 |
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No Man's Land | Will Blackfield | 1984-05-27 |
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Cover Up | Mason Carter | 1984-09-22 |
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Getting Physical | Hugh Gibley | 1984-03-20 |
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Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land | Felix | 1983-02-27 |
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Shooting Stars | Woodrow Norton | 1983-07-28 |
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Not Just Another Affair | Professor Wally Dawson | 1982-10-01 |
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Who Dares Wins | General Ira Potter | 1982-08-26 |
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Don't Go to Sleep | Dr. Cole | 1982-12-10 |
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Wrong Is Right | Harvey | 1982-04-16 |
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S.O.B. | Ben Coogan | 1981-07-01 |
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The Two Lives of Carol Letner | Ed Leemans | 1981-10-14 |
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Tous vedettes ! | Harry Stabling | 1980-01-16 |
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Les Séducteurs | Henry Morrison (segment "The French Method") | 1980-10-31 |
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Private Benjamin | Col. Clay Thornbush | 1980-10-06 |
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Courage fuyons | Charley | 1979-10-17 |
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The Streets of L.A. | Ralph Salkin | 1979-11-13 |
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10 | Hugh | 1979-10-05 |
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Gardenia, il giustiziere della mala | Tony Caruso | 1979-05-05 |
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The Young Runaways | Fred Lockhart | 1978-05-28 |
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Casey's Shadow | Mike Marsh | 1978-01-01 |
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Revenge of the Pink Panther | Philippe Douvier | 1978-01-08 |
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L'Imprécateur | Le cadre américain | 1977-09-07 |
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Passi di morte perduti nel buio | Inspector | 1977-02-17 |
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The Choirboys | Deputy Chief Riggs | 1977-12-23 |
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Madame Claude | Howard | 1977-05-11 |
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Midway | Admiral Jack Fletcher | 1976-06-18 |
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Squadra antifurto | Mr. Douglas | 1976-10-29 |
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Death Stalk | Hugh Webster | 1975-01-21 |
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Pacific Challenge | Narrator | 1975-01-01 |
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Piedone a Hong Kong | Sam Accardo | 1975-06-26 |
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Soldat Duroc, ça va être ta fête ! | Sergeant John Lewis | 1975-04-22 |
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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia | Sappensly | 1974-08-01 |
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Murder or Mercy | Dr. Eric Stoneman | 1974-04-10 |
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Amy Prentiss | Sam Burton | 1974-05-23 |
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Double Indemnity | Edward Norton | 1973-10-13 |
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Cutter | Meredith | 1972-01-26 |
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Thief | James Calendar | 1971-10-09 |
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$ | Attorney | 1971-12-15 |
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Macédoine | Sanderberg | 1971-01-01 |
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Hauser's Memory | Dorsey | 1970-11-24 |
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The Great White Hope | Dixon | 1970-10-11 |
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The Movie Murderer | Karel Kessler | 1970-02-02 |
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The Big Bounce | Bob Rodgers | 1969-03-05 |
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Manon 70 | Ravaggi | 1968-02-21 |
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Don't Make Waves | Rod Prescott | 1967-06-20 |
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The Dirty Dozen | General Denton | 1967-06-15 |
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Qualcuno ha tradito | Tony Costa | 1967-01-01 |
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The Silencers | Sam Gunther | 1966-02-18 |
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Harper | Dwight Troy | 1966-02-22 |
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Tecnica di un omicidio | Clint Harris | 1966-03-25 |
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Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round | Milo Stewart | 1966-10-12 |
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The Sandpiper | Ward Hendricks | 1965-06-23 |
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The Third Day | Dom Guardiano | 1965-08-04 |
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Hysteria | Chris Smith | 1965-04-01 |
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A Statue for 'The Sandpiper' | Self | 1965-04-30 |
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The Stripper | Ricky Powers | 1963-06-19 |
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The Nun and the Sergeant | Sgt. McGrath | 1962-01-01 |
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12 Angry Men | Juror 12 | 1957-04-10 |
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Highway 301 | William "Bill" Phillips | 1950-12-01 |
