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Robert Webber
Known for: ActingOver 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.
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12 vrede mænd
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as Juror 12 
Det beskidte dusin
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as General Denton 
Slaget om Midway
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as Admiral Jack Fletcher 
Den lyserøde panter ta'r hævn
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as Philippe Douvier 
Rekrut Benjamin
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as Col. Clay Thornbush 
10
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as Hugh 
Ræk mig lyddæmperen
as Sam Gunther 
Harper, privatdetektiv
as Dwight Troy 
Bring mig Alfredo Garcias hoved
as Sappensly 
Madame Claude
as Howard 
Den sidste udvej
as General Ira Potter 
Strømeren rykker ud
as Sam Accardo 
The Sandpiper
as Ward Hendricks 
Don't Make Waves
as Rod Prescott 
Manon 70
as Ravaggi 
Storslem i Los Angeles
as Milo Stewart 
The Hired Killer
as Clint Harris 
Manden med det livsfarlige kamera
as Harvey 
Sprængstof
as Robert McCann 
Redningsaktion Starflight
as Felix 
Hit Squad
as Mr. Douglas 
Uropatruljen
as Deputy Chief Riggs 
Nuts
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as Francis MacMillan 
Caseys skygge
as Mike Marsh 
S.O.B.
as Ben Coogan 
Not Just Another Affair
as Professor Wally Dawson 
Skudsikkert kup
as Attorney 
Gardenia
as Tony Caruso 
The Nun and the Sergeant
as Sgt. McGrath 
Assassin
as Calvin Lantz 
The Big Bounce
as Bob Rodgers