Robert Webber
Born October 14, 1924 (Age: 101)
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Santa Ana, California, USA
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.
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
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 79
Nuts
1987
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as Francis MacMillan
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Age: 63
The Ladies
1987
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as Jerry
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Age: 62
Wild Geese II
1985
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as Robert McCann
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Age: 61
In Like Flynn
1985
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as Col. Harper
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Age: 60
Answers
1985
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as Ted Talbot (Segment "Twinkle, Twinkle")
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Age: 60
Half Nelson
1985
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as Harrison
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Age: 60
The Two Lives of Carol Letner
1981
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as Ed Leemans
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Age: 57
S.O.B.
1981
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as Ben Coogan
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Age: 56
Sunday Lovers
1980
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as Henry Morrison (segment "The French Method")
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Age: 56
Private Benjamin
1980
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as Col. Clay Thornbush
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Age: 55
All Stars
1980
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as Harry Stabling
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Age: 55
10
1979
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as Hugh
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Age: 54
The Young Runaways
1978
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as Fred Lockhart
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Age: 53
Revenge of the Pink Panther
1978
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as Philippe Douvier
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Age: 53
Casey's Shadow
1978
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as Mike Marsh
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Age: 53
Midway
1976
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as Admiral Jack Fletcher
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Age: 51
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
1974
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as Sappensly
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Age: 49
Murder or Mercy
1974
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as Dr. Eric Stoneman
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Age: 49
Double Indemnity
1973
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as Edward Norton
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Age: 48
Cutter
1972
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as Meredith
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Age: 47
The Big Bounce
1969
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as Bob Rodgers
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Age: 44
Harper
1966
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as Dwight Troy
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Age: 41
The Silencers
1966
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as Sam Gunther
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Age: 41
The Third Day
1965
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as Dom Guardiano
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Age: 40
The Sandpiper
1965
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as Ward Hendricks
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Age: 40
A Statue for 'The Sandpiper'
1965
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as Self
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Age: 40
Hysteria
1965
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as Chris Smith
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Age: 40
The Stripper
1963
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as Ricky Powers
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Age: 38
The Nun and the Sergeant
1962
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as Sgt. McGrath
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Age: 37
Highway 301
1950
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as William "Bill" Phillips
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Age: 26