Robert Webber
Acting
Born 1924-10-14
Died 1989-05-19
Santa Ana, California, USA
125 credits
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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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Filmography
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Acting
44 credits
The Fugitive
Ironside
Mission: Impossible
The Rifleman
Mannix
Love, American Style
The Rockford Files
12 Angry Men
Quincy, M.E.
Robert Montgomery Presents
Moonlighting
Thriller
Naked City
The Defenders
Studio One
Barnaby Jones
Police Woman
The Outer Limits
The Name of the Game
One Step Beyond
Kojak
Suspense
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Switch
McMillan & Wife
Arrest and Trial
The Dirty Dozen
Banacek
The Rogues
Espionage
The Magician
Midway
Sergeant Cork
Bret Maverick
Darkroom
Harper
Steptoe and Son
The Investigators
Hawkins
10
Private Benjamin
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
Revenge of the Pink Panther
Other credits
16 credits
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Cannon
Ben Casey
Route 66
McCloud
No Hiding Place
Tales of Tomorrow
The Streets of San Francisco
Stoney Burke
Cover Up
The Manhunter
Search
The Greatest Show on Earth
S.W.A.T.
Kaz
Banyon
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