Robert Webber
Birthday: 1924-10-14
Place of Birth: 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.
Movies
The Dirty Dozen
12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy châtea...
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Don't Make Waves
Carlo Cofield vacations to Southern California, where he quickly becomes immersed in the easy-going ...
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Private Benjamin
A sheltered young high society woman joins the US Army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficu...
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Revenge of the Pink Panther
Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles Dreyfus—believ...
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Midway
This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a tu...
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The Silencers
Matt Helm is called out of retirement to stop the evil Big O organization who plan to explode an ato...
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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld...
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A bank security expert plots with a call girl to rob the safety deposit boxes of three very differen...
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Wrong Is Right
Political double-talk, dirty tricks, hidden microphones, spy satellites, bugging the Oval Office and...
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Harper
Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him...
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10
A Hollywood songwriter goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy blonde newl...
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Nuts
A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared...
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Highway 301
The "Tri-State" gang goes on a successful bank robbing streak causing local authorities to turn up t...
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Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
Starflight One, a commercial aircraft that can whisk passengers around the globe in a matter of hour...
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Wild Geese II
A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin....
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Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
A sophisticated con man mounts an intricate plan to rob an airport bank while the Soviet premier is ...
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Who Dares Wins
When SAS Captain Peter Skellen is thrown out of the service for gross misconduct due to unnecessary ...
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Hysteria
An American wakes up in an English hospital unable to remember anything of his life before a recent ...
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Double Indemnity
A scheming wife lures an insurance investigator into helping murder her husband and then declare it ...
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Don't Go to Sleep
One year after a young girl dies in a car accident, her sister begins seeing visions of her, while t...
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The Sandpiper
A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wedded headmaster of an Episcopalian board...
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Death Steps in the Dark
An Italian reporter is travelling on the Instabul-Athens train. A woman is murdered with the reporte...
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The Third Day
A man stumbles out of a car crash with no memory of what transpired. Everyone who he meets suggests ...
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Madame Claude
Based on a true story. Madame Claude, a well connected Parisienne with dark past, runs a network of ...
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The Stripper
An aging former movie starlet whose Hollywood career went nowhere, now reduced to dancing with a thi...
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Pacific Challenge
Documentary detailing the six-month crossing of the Pacific Ocean by a rafting expedition of 12 men ...
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Gardenia
A businessman comes into conflict with a gangster when he refuses to allow drugs to be sold through ...
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The Dangerous Mission
1944. A young French soldier is involved, without really wanting it, into American operations for Li...
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Death Stalk
The whitewater raft trip of two couples is interrupted by a visit from four prison escapees who take...
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Thief
A professional thief tries to break with his past but has to pull off one last job to pay off a gamb...
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Not Just Another Affair
A lady marine biologist, determined to save herself until marriage, meets a handsome attorney who is...
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The Hired Killer
Hit-man Clint Harris has one more job to do before he can retire. The corporation which hires him de...
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The Streets of L.A.
A woman embarks on a lone pursuit of three teenaged hoods in the Los Angeles barrio after becoming i...
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Courage fuyons
At forty years old, Martin Belhomme leads a quiet life with his wife and two children. One day, he f...
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Every Man Is My Enemy
When a heist goes wrong, a safe cracker (Robert Webber) looks for the person who's betrayed him......
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Manon 70
Manon is an amoral, free spirit who uses sex to surround herself in relatively luxurious surrounding...
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The Two Lives of Carol Letner
A former call-girl who has left the profession behind to pursue a college career is recruited by the...
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The Choirboys
A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in va...
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The Nun and the Sergeant
A weary sergeant in Korea commands military prisoners on a dangerous mission and is joined by a nun ...
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The Big Bounce
A Vietnam veteran and ex-con is persuaded by a shady woman to rob a $50,000 payroll account on a Cal...
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The Movie Murderer
An experienced arson investigator takes along his young associate as they try to find an arsonist wh...
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The Great White Hope
A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing est...
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Hauser's Memory
A scientist is persuaded by the government to inject himself with the brain fluid of a dying colleag...
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Macédoine
The tale of a young pretty girl's rise to a top model and her finding of emptiness in her life after...
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Murder or Mercy
An attorney comes out of retirement to defend a prominent doctor, who has been accused of the mercy ...
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Flatfoot in Hong Kong
Inspector Rizzo is accused of drug trafficking. In order to clear his name he has to find out who is...
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The Accuser
In this sardonic comedy, after an executive is killed in a mysterious automobile accident, the Frenc...
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Casey's Shadow
Young Casey comes from a family of racehorse trainers, and his best friend, a foal called Casey's Sh...
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Sunday Lovers
A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France, USA ...
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S.O.B.
A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic...
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Shooting Stars
Two television actors who play detectives are fired when the show's star gets upset that they are ge...
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Getting Physical
The world of female bodybuilding provides the backdrop for this tale of an aspiring young actress wh...
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No Man's Land
Sheriff Stella Stevens uses her wiles and the help of her three resourceful daughters -- one by each...
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Answers
Three of Ernest Thompson's short plays are presented, each involving a surprise visitor. In the firs...
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Half Nelson
Rocky Nelson is a New York cop, who after making a major bust and selling the rights of his story to...
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In Like Flynn
Life is one cliff-hanger after another for a bright and beautiful woman and the reluctant young man ...
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The Ladies
Sentimental drama in which, following her divorce, a middle-aged woman (Patricia Elliott) moves in w...
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The Young Runaways
Heartless parents C.L. Doyle and his wife take two of their older children, Rosebud & Joseph T. Doyl...
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Hit Squad
A gang of thieves are robbing luxury apartments in Rome, but after emptying the villa of the wealthy...
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Assassin
A retired agent from an Intelligence Agency is contacted by the Agency in order to stop an ultra-sec...
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12 Angry Men
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a...
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Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist...
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