Robert Webber

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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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2004
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Movie Self (archive footage)
1988
Something Is Out There
TV show Commissioner Estabrook
1987
Nuts
Movie Francis MacMillan
1987
The Ladies
Movie Jerry
1986
Assassin
Movie Calvin Lantz
1985
Wild Geese II
Movie Robert McCann
1985
In Like Flynn
Movie Col. Harper
1985
Answers
Movie Ted Talbot (Segment "Twinkle, Twinkle")
1985
Half Nelson
Movie Harrison
1985
Moonlighting
TV show Alexander Hayes
1984
Cover Up
TV show
1984
No Man's Land
Movie Will Blackfield
1984
Getting Physical
Movie Hugh Gibley
1983
Shooting Stars
Movie Woodrow Norton
1983
Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
Movie Felix
1982
Don't Go to Sleep
Movie Dr. Cole