
Robert Webber
Acting
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.

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Self (archive footage)

Nuts
Francis MacMillan

The Ladies
Jerry

Assassin
Calvin Lantz

Wild Geese II
Robert McCann

In Like Flynn
Col. Harper

Answers
Ted Talbot (Segment "Twinkle, Twinkle")

Half Nelson
Harrison

No Man's Land
Will Blackfield

Getting Physical
Hugh Gibley

Shooting Stars
Woodrow Norton

Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
Felix

Don't Go to Sleep
Dr. Cole

Not Just Another Affair
Professor Wally Dawson

Who Dares Wins
General Ira Potter

Wrong Is Right
Harvey

The Two Lives of Carol Letner
Ed Leemans

S.O.B.
Ben Coogan

Sunday Lovers
Henry Morrison (segment "The French Method")

Private Benjamin
Col. Clay Thornbush

All Stars
Harry Stabling

The Streets of L.A.
Ralph Salkin

Courage fuyons
Charley

10
Hugh

Gardenia
Tony Caruso

The Young Runaways
Fred Lockhart

Revenge of the Pink Panther
Philippe Douvier

Casey's Shadow
Mike Marsh

The Choirboys
Deputy Chief Riggs

The Accuser
American executive

Madame Claude
Howard

Death Steps in the Dark
Inspector

Hit Squad
Mr. Douglas

Midway
Admiral Jack Fletcher

The Dangerous Mission
Sergeant John Lewis

Flatfoot in Hong Kong
Sam Accardo

Death Stalk
Hugh Webster
Pacific Challenge
Narrator

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Sappensly

Murder or Mercy
Dr. Eric Stoneman

Double Indemnity
Edward Norton

Cutter
Meredith

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Attorney

Thief
James Calendar
Macédoine
Sanderberg

Hauser's Memory
Dorsey

The Great White Hope
Dixon

The Movie Murderer
Karel Kessler

The Big Bounce
Bob Rodgers

Manon 70
Ravaggi

Don't Make Waves
Rod Prescott

The Dirty Dozen
General Denton

Every Man Is My Enemy
Tony Costa

Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
Milo Stewart

The Hired Killer
Clint Harris

Harper
Dwight Troy

The Silencers
Sam Gunther

The Third Day
Dom Guardiano

The Sandpiper
Ward Hendricks

A Statue for 'The Sandpiper'
Self

Hysteria
Chris Smith

The Stripper
Ricky Powers

The Nun and the Sergeant
Sgt. McGrath

12 Angry Men
Juror 12

Highway 301
William "Bill" Phillips







