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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The Ladies | Jerry | 1987-06-26 |
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Nuts | Francis MacMillan | 1987-11-20 |
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Assassin | Calvin Lantz | 1986-03-19 |
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Half Nelson | Harrison | 1985-03-24 |
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Answers | Ted Talbot (Segment "Twinkle, Twinkle") | 1985-04-30 |
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Wild Geese II | Robert McCann | 1985-10-18 |
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In Like Flynn | Col. Harper | 1985-08-14 |
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Getting Physical | Hugh Gibley | 1984-03-20 |
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No Man's Land | Will Blackfield | 1984-05-27 |
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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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Don't Go to Sleep | Dr. Cole | 1982-12-10 |
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Not Just Another Affair | Professor Wally Dawson | 1982-10-01 |
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Wrong Is Right | Harvey | 1982-04-16 |
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Who Dares Wins | General Ira Potter | 1982-08-26 |
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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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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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Tous vedettes ! | Harry Stabling | 1980-01-16 |
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Gardenia, il giustiziere della mala | Tony Caruso | 1979-05-05 |
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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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Revenge of the Pink Panther | Philippe Douvier | 1978-01-08 |
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Casey's Shadow | Mike Marsh | 1978-01-01 |
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The Young Runaways | Fred Lockhart | 1978-05-28 |
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L'Imprécateur | American executive | 1977-09-07 |
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The Choirboys | Deputy Chief Riggs | 1977-12-23 |
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Passi di morte perduti nel buio | Inspector | 1977-02-17 |
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Madame Claude | Howard | 1977-05-11 |
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Squadra antifurto | Mr. Douglas | 1976-10-29 |
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Midway | Admiral Jack Fletcher | 1976-06-18 |
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Piedone a Hong Kong | Sam Accardo | 1975-03-28 |
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Pacific Challenge | Narrator | 1975-01-01 |
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Soldat Duroc, ça va être ta fête ! | Sergeant John Lewis | 1975-04-22 |
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Death Stalk | Hugh Webster | 1975-01-21 |
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Murder or Mercy | Dr. Eric Stoneman | 1974-04-10 |
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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia | Sappensly | 1974-08-01 |
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Double Indemnity | Edward Norton | 1973-10-13 |
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Cutter | Meredith | 1972-01-26 |
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$ | Attorney | 1971-12-15 |
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Macédoine | Sanderberg | 1971-01-20 |
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Thief | James Calendar | 1971-10-09 |
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The Movie Murderer | Karel Kessler | 1970-02-02 |
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The Great White Hope | Dixon | 1970-10-11 |
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Hauser's Memory | Dorsey | 1970-11-24 |
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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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Qualcuno ha tradito | Tony Costa | 1967-01-01 |
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The Dirty Dozen | General Denton | 1967-06-15 |
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The Silencers | Sam Gunther | 1966-02-18 |
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Tecnica di un omicidio | Clint Harris | 1966-03-25 |
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Harper | Dwight Troy | 1966-02-22 |
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Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round | Milo Stewart | 1966-10-12 |
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Hysteria | Chris Smith | 1965-04-01 |
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The Third Day | Dom Guardiano | 1965-08-04 |
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A Statue for 'The Sandpiper' | Self | 1965-04-30 |
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The Sandpiper | Ward Hendricks | 1965-06-23 |
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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 |
