Robert Webber
1924-10-14 ( 100 years old ) in Santa Ana, California, USA

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

Nuts 1987-11-20
The Ladies 1987-06-26
Assassin 1986-03-19
Wild Geese II 1985-10-18
In Like Flynn 1985-08-14
Half Nelson 1985-03-24
Answers 1985-01-01
Cover Up 1984-09-22
No Man's Land 1984-05-27
Shooting Stars 1983-07-28
Who Dares Wins 1982-08-26
Wrong Is Right 1982-04-16
S.O.B. 1981-07-01
Sunday Lovers 1980-10-31
All Stars 1980-01-16
Courage fuyons 1979-10-17
10 1979-10-05
Gardenia 1979-05-05
Casey's Shadow 1978-01-01
The Choirboys 1977-12-23
The Accuser 1977-09-07
Madame Claude 1977-05-11
Hit Squad 1976-10-29
Midway 1976-06-18
Death Stalk 1975-01-21
Cutter 1972-01-26
$ 1971-12-15
Thief 1971-10-09
Macédoine 1971-01-01
The Big Bounce 1969-03-05
Manon 70 1968-02-21
Harper 1966-02-22
The Silencers 1966-02-18
The Third Day 1965-08-04
The Sandpiper 1965-06-23
Hysteria 1965-04-01
The Stripper 1963-06-19
12 Angry Men 1957-04-10
Highway 301 1950-12-01