Robert Webber(1924-1989)
- Actor
- Soundtrack
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 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).
He bore a resemblance to character actor
Kevin McCarthy.
