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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 Angry Men
as Juror 12 
The Dirty Dozen
as General Denton 
Midway
as Admiral Jack Fletcher 
Revenge of the Pink Panther
as Philippe Douvier 
Private Benjamin
as Col. Clay Thornbush 
10
as Hugh 
The Silencers
as Sam Gunther 
Harper
as Dwight Troy 
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
as Sappensly 
Madame Claude
as Howard 
Who Dares Wins
as General Ira Potter 
Flatfoot in Hong Kong
as Sam Accardo 
The Sandpiper
as Ward Hendricks 
Don't Make Waves
as Rod Prescott 
Manon 70
as Ravaggi 
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
as Milo Stewart 
The Hired Killer
as Clint Harris 
Wrong Is Right
as Harvey 
Wild Geese II
as Robert McCann 
Hit Squad
as Mr. Douglas 
The Choirboys
as Deputy Chief Riggs 
Nuts
as Francis MacMillan 
Casey's Shadow
as Mike Marsh 
S.O.B.
as Ben Coogan 
Not Just Another Affair
as Professor Wally Dawson 
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as Attorney 
Gardenia
as Tony Caruso 
The Nun and the Sergeant
as Sgt. McGrath 
Assassin
as Calvin Lantz 
The Big Bounce
as Bob Rodgers