Robert Webber

Date of Birth: October 14, 1924
Place of Birth: Santa Ana, California, USA

Robert Webber Biography

EasyEdit

(What's this?)

What's going on here?
Flixster members are collaborating to create the definitive resource for Robert Webber information on the Internet. We're adding all the images, info, and ideas that best tell this actor's unique story. To add your knowledge of Robert Webber, just log in and click the EasyEdit button at the top of the wiki pages. (Click here for help.)

Robert Webber mini-bio: 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 Dudley Moore's music assistant), 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.