Highest rated as cast or director
Biography
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 116
1980s
- 1988
Something Is Out There
Commissioner Estabrook · 2 episodes
- 1987
Nuts
Francis MacMillan
The Ladies
Jerry
- 1986
- 1985
In Like Flynn
Col. Harper
Answers
Ted Talbot (Segment "Twinkle, Twinkle")
Half Nelson
Harrison
- 1984
No Man's Land
Will Blackfield
Getting Physical
Hugh Gibley
- 1983
Shooting Stars
Woodrow Norton
- 1982
Don't Go to Sleep
Dr. Cole
Not Just Another Affair
Professor Wally Dawson
Wrong Is Right
Harvey
- 1981
Bret Maverick
Everest Sinclair · 2 episodes
The Two Lives of Carol Letner
Ed Leemans
S.O.B.
Ben Coogan
- 1980
Sunday Lovers
Henry Morrison (segment "The French Method")
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
Herman LaCross · 1 episode
All Stars
Harry Stabling
1970s
- 1979
The Streets of L.A.
Ralph Salkin
Courage fuyons
Charley
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Hugh
Gardenia
Tony Caruso
- 1978
The Young Runaways
Fred Lockhart
Casey's Shadow
Mike Marsh
- 1977
The Choirboys
Deputy Chief Riggs
79 Park Avenue
John Hackson DeWitt · 1 episode
The Accuser
American executive
Death Steps in the Dark
Inspector
- 1976
- 1975
The Dangerous Mission
Sergeant John Lewis
Death Stalk
Hugh Webster
- 1974
Murder or Mercy
Dr. Eric Stoneman
- 1973
Hawkins
Carl Vincent · 1 episode
- 1972
Cutter
Meredith
- 1971
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Attorney
Thief
James Calendar
- 1970
Hauser's Memory
Dorsey
San Francisco International Airport
Brigadier General Daniel Boyd Goodwin · 1 episode
The Great White Hope
Dixon
The Movie Murderer
Karel Kessler
1960s
- 1969
The Big Bounce
Bob Rodgers
- 1968
- 1967
Every Man Is My Enemy
Tony Costa
- 1966
- 1965
The Third Day
Dom Guardiano
Hysteria
Chris Smith
- 1964
- 1963
The Stripper
Ricky Powers
- 1962
The Nun and the Sergeant
Sgt. McGrath
- 1961
- 1960
1950s
- 1959
New York Confidential
TV
- 1958
- 1957
- 1955
- 1951
- 1950
Highway 301
William "Bill" Phillips
Appearances2
2000s
- 2004
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Self (archive footage)
1960s
- 1965
A Statue for "The Sandpiper"
Self