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, Californ...
12 Angry Men
1957
The Dirty Dozen
1967
Assassin
1986
Midway
1976
Harper
1966
Manon 70
1968
10
1979
Hit Squad
1976
The Accuser
1977
Revenge of the Pink Panther
1978
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
The Sandpiper
1965
Private Benjamin
1980
The Silencers
1966
Answers
1985
Who Dares Wins
1982
S.O.B.
1981
All Stars
1980
Nuts
1987
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1971
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
1974
Flatfoot in Hong Kong
1975
The Choirboys
1977
Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
1983
Sunday Lovers
1980
Hysteria
1965
The Big Bounce
1969
Courage fuyons
1979
The Third Day
1965
Casey's Shadow
1978
Wrong Is Right
1982
Highway 301
1950
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
1966
Double Indemnity
1973
Madame Claude
1977
Don't Go to Sleep
1982
Half Nelson
1985
Death Stalk
1975
Wild Geese II
1985
The Young Runaways
1978