Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1924-10-14
Day of Death
1989-05-19
Place of Birth
Santa Ana, California, USA
Robert Webber
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.
Filmography (65)
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
Nuts
1987
The Ladies
1987
Assassin
1986
Wild Geese II
1985
In Like Flynn
1985
Answers
1985
Half Nelson
1985
No Man's Land
1984
Getting Physical
1984
Shooting Stars
1983
Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
1983
Don't Go to Sleep
1982
Not Just Another Affair
1982
