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.

Filmography

• Something Is Out There — Commissioner Estabrook
• 1987Nuts — Francis MacMillan
• 1987The Ladies — Jerry
• 1986Assassin — Calvin Lantz
• 1985Answers — Ted Talbot (Segment "Twinkle, Twinkle")
• 1985Half Nelson — Harrison
• 1985In Like Flynn — Col. Harper
• Moonlighting — Alexander Hayes
• 1985Wild Geese II — Robert McCann
• Cover Up
• 1984Getting Physical — Hugh Gibley
• 1984No Man's Land — Will Blackfield
• 1983Shooting Stars — Woodrow Norton
• 1983Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land — Felix
• 1982Don't Go to Sleep — Dr. Cole
• 1982Not Just Another Affair — Professor Wally Dawson
• 1982Who Dares Wins — General Ira Potter
• 1982Wrong Is Right — Harvey
• Bret Maverick — Everest Sinclair
• Darkroom — Greg Conway
• 1981S.O.B. — Ben Coogan
• 1981The Two Lives of Carol Letner — Ed Leemans
• 1980All Stars — Harry Stabling
• 1980Private Benjamin — Col. Clay Thornbush
• 1980Sunday Lovers — Henry Morrison (segment "The French Method")
• Tenspeed and Brown Shoe — Herman LaCross
• 197910 — Hugh
• 1979Courage fuyons — Charley
• 1979Gardenia — Tony Caruso
• 1979The Streets of L.A. — Ralph Salkin
• 1978Casey's Shadow — Mike Marsh
• Kaz
• 1978Revenge of the Pink Panther — Philippe Douvier
• 1978The Young Runaways — Fred Lockhart
• 79 Park Avenue — John Hackson DeWitt
• 1977Death Steps in the Dark — Inspector
• 1977Madame Claude — Howard
• 1977The Accuser — American executive
• 1977The Choirboys — Deputy Chief Riggs
• 1976Hit Squad — Mr. Douglas
• 1976Midway — Admiral Jack Fletcher
• Quincy, M.E. — Dr. John Franklin
• 1975Death Stalk — Hugh Webster
• 1975Flatfoot in Hong Kong — Sam Accardo
• 1975Pacific Challenge — Narrator
• S.W.A.T.
• Switch — Paul Sinclair
• 1975The Dangerous Mission — Sergeant John Lewis
• 1974Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia — Sappensly
• 1974Murder or Mercy — Dr. Eric Stoneman
• Police Woman — Julian Lord
• The Manhunter
• The Rockford Files — Sen. Evan Murdock, Bob Coleman, Roman Clementi, Harold Jack Coombs
• Barnaby Jones — Gene Gates, Maxwell Strager
• 1973Double Indemnity — Edward Norton
• Hawkins — Carl Vincent
• Kojak — David Lawrence
• The Magician — Arthur Zellman
• Banacek — Jerry Brinkman
• Banyon
• 1972Cutter — Meredith
• Search
• The Streets of San Francisco
• 1971$ — Attorney
• Cannon
• 1971Macédoine — Sanderberg
• McMillan & Wife — Charles Meridio
• 1971Thief — James Calendar
• 1970Hauser's Memory — Dorsey
• McCloud
• San Francisco International Airport — Brigadier General Daniel Boyd Goodwin
• 1970The Great White Hope — Dixon
• 1970The Movie Murderer — Karel Kessler
• Love, American Style — Harris
• 1969The Big Bounce — Bob Rodgers
• 1968Manon 70 — Ravaggi
• The Name of the Game — William McKendricks
• 1967Don't Make Waves — Rod Prescott
• 1967Every Man Is My Enemy — Tony Costa
• Ironside — Sam Burton
• Mannix — Tom Carlson
• 1967The Dirty Dozen — General Denton
• 1966Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round — Milo Stewart
• 1966Harper — Dwight Troy
• Mission: Impossible — Charles Rogan
• 1966The Hired Killer — Clint Harris
• 1966The Silencers — Sam Gunther
• 1965Hysteria — Chris Smith
• 1965The Sandpiper — Ward Hendricks
• 1965The Third Day — Dom Guardiano
• The Rogues — Guy Gabriel
• Arrest and Trial — George Morrison
• Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
• Espionage — Jack Hanley
• Kraft Suspense Theatre — Robert Burke
• Sergeant Cork — Greeley
• The Fugitive — Harlan Guthrie
• The Greatest Show on Earth
• The Outer Limits — Ikar
• 1963The Stripper — Ricky Powers
• Steptoe and Son — Vicar
• Stoney Burke
• 1962The Nun and the Sergeant — Sgt. McGrath
• Ben Casey
• The Defenders — Douglas, Michael Hillyer, Father Phelps
• The Investigators — Bert Crayne
• Route 66
• Thriller — Arthur Henshaw
• New York Confidential
• No Hiding Place
• One Step Beyond — Andrew Courtney
• Naked City — Gordon Lanning
• The Rifleman — Wes Carney
• 195712 Angry Men — Juror 12
• Our Miss Pemberton — Vicar
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Paul Brett, Harrison Fell, Edward Gibson
• Janet Dean, Registered Nurse
• Out There
• Tales of Tomorrow
• 1950Highway 301 — William "Bill" Phillips
• Robert Montgomery Presents — Philip, George Lawrence
• Suspense — James Forsythe
• Studio One — Skeets - Henchman / Bodyguard, Chase

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2004Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade — Self (archive footage)
• 1965A Statue for "The Sandpiper" — Self