Robert Webber
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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The Rifleman
1958 · Wes Carney
The Fugitive
1963 · Harlan Guthrie
Ironside
1967
Mannix
1967 · Tom Carlson
Love, American Style
1969 · Harris
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Mission: Impossible
1966 · Charles Rogan
The Rockford Files
1974 · Sen. Evan Murdock
Quincy, M.E.
1976
Studio One
1948
12 Angry Men
1957 · Juror 12
Naked City
1958 · Gordon Lanning
Suspense
1949 · James Forsythe
Moonlighting
1985 · Alexander Hayes
Cannon
1971
Thriller
1960 · Arthur Henshaw
The Defenders
1961 · Douglas
Route 66
1960
The Outer Limits
1963 · Ikar
Barnaby Jones
1973 · Gene Gates
Ben Casey
1961
One Step Beyond
1959 · Andrew Courtney
No Hiding Place
1959
Kojak
1973 · David Lawrence
Stoney Burke
1962
Police Woman
1974 · Julian Lord
The Name of the Game
1968 · William McKendricks
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · Paul Brett
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963 · Robert Burke
McCloud
1970
Tales of Tomorrow
1951
McMillan & Wife
1971 · Charles Meridio
Switch
1975 · Paul Sinclair
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
Arrest and Trial
1963 · George Morrison
Banacek
1972 · Jerry Brinkman
The Dirty Dozen
1967 · General Denton
Steptoe and Son
1962 · Vicar
Espionage
1963 · Jack Hanley
The Rogues
1964 · Guy Gabriel
The Manhunter
1974
The Magician
1973 · Arthur Zellman
S.W.A.T.
1975
Search
1972
Cover Up
1984
The Investigators
1961 · Bert Crayne
Darkroom
1981 · Greg Conway
Midway
1976 · Admiral Jack Fletcher
Hawkins
1973 · Carl Vincent
Banyon
1972
Kaz
1978
Bret Maverick
1981 · Everest Sinclair
New York Confidential
1959
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
1980 · Herman LaCross
Harper
1966 · Dwight Troy
Revenge of the Pink Panther
1978 · Philippe Douvier
10
1979 · Hugh
The Movie Murderer
1970 · Karel Kessler
Private Benjamin
1980 · Col. Clay Thornbush
Who Dares Wins
1982 · General Ira Potter
79 Park Avenue
1977 · John Hackson DeWitt
The Sandpiper
1965 · Ward Hendricks
San Francisco International Airport
1970 · Brigadier General Dani...
Assassin
1986 · Calvin Lantz
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
1974 · Sappensly
Manon 70
1968 · Ravaggi
Wild Geese II
1985 · Robert McCann
Don't Make Waves
1967 · Rod Prescott
The Silencers
1966 · Sam Gunther
S.O.B.
1981 · Ben Coogan
Madame Claude
1977 · Howard
The Choirboys
1977 · Deputy Chief Riggs
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
1966 · Milo Stewart
Hit Squad
1976 · Mr. Douglas
Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
1983 · Felix
Flatfoot in Hong Kong
1975 · Sam Accardo
The Great White Hope
1970 · Dixon
Answers
1985 · Ted Talbot (Segment "T...
Nuts
1987 · Francis MacMillan
Something Is Out There
1988 · Commissioner Estabrook
Wrong Is Right
1982 · Harvey
Sunday Lovers
1980 · Henry Morrison (segmen...
All Stars
1980 · Harry Stabling
The Nun and the Sergeant
1962 · Sgt. McGrath
Double Indemnity
1973 · Edward Norton
The Hired Killer
1966 · Clint Harris
The Young Runaways
1978 · Fred Lockhart
Not Just Another Affair
1982 · Professor Wally Dawson
No Man's Land
1984 · Will Blackfield
Getting Physical
1984 · Hugh Gibley
Courage fuyons
1979 · Charley
Hauser's Memory
1970 · Dorsey
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004 · Self (archive footage)
The Big Bounce
1969 · Bob Rodgers
Thief
1971 · James Calendar
The Two Lives of Carol Letner
1981 · Ed Leemans
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1971 · Attorney
Murder or Mercy
1974 · Dr. Eric Stoneman
The Stripper
1963 · Ricky Powers
The Third Day
1965 · Dom Guardiano
The Streets of L.A.
1979 · Ralph Salkin
A Statue for "The Sandpiper"
1965 · Self
The Accuser
1977 · American executive
Every Man Is My Enemy
1967 · Tony Costa
Shooting Stars
1983 · Woodrow Norton
Death Steps in the Dark
1977 · Inspector
Highway 301
1950 · William "Bill" Phillip...
Hysteria
1965 · Chris Smith
Gardenia
1979 · Tony Caruso
Don't Go to Sleep
1982 · Dr. Cole
Half Nelson
1985 · Harrison
The Dangerous Mission
1975 · Sergeant John Lewis
Casey's Shadow
1978 · Mike Marsh
Death Stalk
1975 · Hugh Webster
In Like Flynn
1985 · Col. Harper
The Ladies
1987 · Jerry
Cutter
1972 · Meredith