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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Santa Ana, California, USA , 1924-10-14

Died: 1989-05-19

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	Highway 301	William "Bill" Phillips	66
2	1957	12 Angry Men	Juror 12	85
3	1962	The Nun and the Sergeant	Sgt. McGrath	10
4	1963	The Stripper	Ricky Powers	47
5	1965	Hysteria	Chris Smith	64
6	1965	A Statue for 'The Sandpiper'	Self	60
7	1965	The Sandpiper	Ward Hendricks	64
8	1965	The Third Day	Dom Guardiano	58
9	1966	The Silencers	Sam Gunther	61
10	1966	Harper	Dwight Troy	67
11	1966	The Hired Killer	Clint Harris	54
12	1966	Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round	Milo Stewart	52
13	1967	Every Man Is My Enemy	Tony Costa	30
14	1967	The Dirty Dozen	General Denton	76
15	1967	Don't Make Waves	Rod Prescott	53
16	1968	Manon 70	Ravaggi	56
17	1969	The Big Bounce	Bob Rodgers	52
18	1970	The Movie Murderer	Karel Kessler	65
19	1970	The Great White Hope	Dixon	61
20	1970	Hauser's Memory	Dorsey	63
21	1971	Macédoine	Sanderberg	0
22	1971	Thief	James Calendar	68
23	1971	$	Attorney	61
24	1972	Cutter	Meredith	0
25	1973	Double Indemnity	Edward Norton	48
26	1974	Murder or Mercy	Dr. Eric Stoneman	0
27	1974	Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia	Sappensly	71
28	1975	Pacific Challenge	Narrator	60
29	1975	Death Stalk	Hugh Webster	59
30	1975	Flatfoot in Hong Kong	Sam Accardo	61
31	1975	The Dangerous Mission	Sergeant John Lewis	40
32	1976	Midway	Admiral Jack Fletcher	66
33	1976	Hit Squad	Mr. Douglas	65
34	1977	Death Steps in the Dark	Inspector	51
35	1977	Madame Claude	Howard	49
36	1977	The Accuser	American executive	57
37	1977	The Choirboys	Deputy Chief Riggs	53
38	1978	Casey's Shadow	Mike Marsh	64
39	1978	Revenge of the Pink Panther	Philippe Douvier	64
40	1978	The Young Runaways	Fred Lockhart	60
41	1979	Gardenia	Tony Caruso	48
42	1979	10	Hugh	57
43	1979	Courage fuyons	Charley	61
44	1979	The Streets of L.A.	Ralph Salkin	50
45	1980	All Stars	Harry Stabling	0
46	1980	Private Benjamin	Col. Clay Thornbush	60
47	1980	Sunday Lovers	Henry Morrison (segment "The French Method")	60
48	1981	S.O.B.	Ben Coogan	59
49	1981	The Two Lives of Carol Letner	Ed Leemans	0
50	1982	Wrong Is Right	Harvey	55
51	1982	Who Dares Wins	General Ira Potter	62
52	1982	Not Just Another Affair	Professor Wally Dawson	43
53	1982	Don't Go to Sleep	Dr. Cole	66
54	1983	Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land	Felix	48
55	1983	Shooting Stars	Woodrow Norton	35
56	1984	Getting Physical	Hugh Gibley	20
57	1984	No Man's Land	Will Blackfield	60
58	1984	Cover Up	Mason Carter	20
59	1985	Answers	Ted Talbot (Segment "Twinkle, Twinkle")	0
60	1985	Half Nelson	Harrison	0
61	1985	In Like Flynn	Col. Harper	0
62	1985	Wild Geese II	Robert McCann	49
63	1986	Assassin	Calvin Lantz	41
64	1987	The Ladies	Jerry	0
65	1987	Nuts	Francis MacMillan	63
66	2004	Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade	Self (archive footage)	74

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	Studio One		50
2	1948	Studio One	Skeets - Henchman / Bodyguard	50
3	1949	Suspense	James Forsythe	49
4	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents		56
5	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents	Philip	56
6	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents	George Lawrence	56
7	1951	Tales of Tomorrow		60
8	1951	Out There		0
9	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Paul Brett	77
10	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Harrison Fell	77
11	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Edward Gibson	77
12	1958	Naked City	Gordon Lanning	55
13	1958	The Rifleman	Wes Carney	70
14	1959	New York Confidential		0
15	1959	One Step Beyond	Andrew Courtney	56
16	1959	No Hiding Place		37
17	1960	Thriller	Arthur Henshaw	64
18	1960	Route 66		63
19	1961	The Defenders	Douglas	62
20	1961	The Defenders	Michael Hillyer	62
21	1961	The Defenders	Father Phelps	62
22	1961	Ben Casey		56
23	1961	The Investigators	Bert	50
24	1962	Stoney Burke		57
25	1963	Arrest and Trial		77
26	1963	The Outer Limits	Ikar	78
27	1963	The Greatest Show on Earth		50
28	1963	The Fugitive	Harlan Guthrie	72
29	1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre		57
30	1963	Kraft Suspense Theatre	Robert Burke	53
31	1964	The Rogues	Guy Gabriel	72
32	1966	Mission: Impossible	Charles Rogan	76
33	1967	Ironside		68
34	1967	Ironside	Sam Burton	68
35	1967	Mannix	Tom Carlson	67
36	1968	The Name of the Game	William McKendricks	68
37	1969	Love, American Style	Harris	61
38	1970	McCloud		71
39	1971	Cannon		65
40	1971	McMillan & Wife	Charles Meridio	69
41	1972	Search		69
42	1972	Banacek	Jerry Brinkman	86
43	1972	Banyon		70
44	1972	The Streets of San Francisco		69
45	1973	Barnaby Jones	Gene Gates	69
46	1973	Barnaby Jones	Maxwell Strager	69
47	1973	Hawkins	Carl Vincent	72
48	1973	The Magician	Arthur Zellman	67
49	1973	Kojak	David Lawrence	70
50	1974	The Manhunter		50
51	1974	The Rockford Files	Sen. Evan Murdock	75
52	1974	The Rockford Files	Bob Coleman	75
53	1974	The Rockford Files	Roman Clementi	75
54	1974	Police Woman	Julian Lord	63
55	1974	The Rockford Files	Harold Jack Coombs	75
56	1975	S.W.A.T.		70
57	1975	Switch	Paul Sinclair	67
58	1976	Quincy, M.E.		75
59	1976	Quincy, M.E.	Dr. John Franklin	75
60	1977	79 Park Avenue	John Hackson DeWitt	48
61	1978	Kaz		50
62	1981	Bret Maverick	Everest Sinclair	40
63	1984	Cover Up		66
64	1985	Moonlighting	Alexander Hayes	75
65	1988	Something Is Out There	Commissioner Estabrook	76

Robert Webber

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