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