🎬Robert Webber

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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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade (2004)	Self (archive footage)		6
2	Nuts (1987)	Francis MacMillan		7
3	Wild Geese II (1985)	Robert McCann		6
4	S.O.B. (1981)	Ben Coogan	-	-
5	The Two Lives of Carol Letner (1981)	Ed Leemans	-	-
6	Private Benjamin (1980)	Col. Clay Thornbush		6.5
7	10 (1979)	Hugh		6.5
8	Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)	Philippe Douvier		6.8
9	The Choirboys (1977)	Deputy Chief Riggs	-	-
10	Midway (1976)	Admiral Jack Fletcher		8
11	Flatfoot in Hong Kong (1975)	Sam Accardo		6
12	Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)	Sappensly		6
13	Double Indemnity (1973)	Edward Norton		6
14	The Great White Hope (1970)	Dixon	-	-
15	The Dirty Dozen (1967)	General Denton		7.7
16	Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966)	Milo Stewart	-	-
17	The Silencers (1966)	Sam Gunther	-	-
18	Harper (1966)	Dwight Troy		6.3
19	Hysteria (1965)	Chris Smith	-	-
20	The Sandpiper (1965)	Ward Hendricks	-	-
21	12 Angry Men (1957)	Juror 12		8.7
22	Highway 301 (1950)	William "Bill" Phillips		5