ROBERT WEBBER BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
Robert Webber was born on October 14th, 1924 in Santa Ana, California, born to Alice and Robert Webber. His career as an actor began as a stage performer appearing in a number of Broadway productions. He then took a brief break from his career to join the Marine Corps and fought during World War II. Upon completing his military service he then began to break into the film industry.
Webber began first with working as a television actor adding such credits to his resume as, "Starlight Theatre", "Out There", "Tales of Tomorrow", "The Rifleman" and "Suspense". Some of his first screen roles included, "12 Angry Men" (1957) starring alongside Henry Fonda, Martin Balsam, Jack Klugman, Ed Begley, Jack Warden, Edward Binns, E.G. Marshall and Lee J. Cobb and "The Nun and the Sergeant" (1962) starring Anna Sten, Hari Rhodes and Leo Gordon.
As his career progressed he alternated from film and television work with his more well known film roles including, "The Sandpiper" (1965) starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Charles Bronson and Eva Marie Saint, "Hysteria" (1965), "The Dirty Dozen" (1967) starring Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Ralph Meeker, George Kennedy, Richard Jaeckel, Donald Sutherland, Charles Bronson, Clint Walker, Telly Savalas, John Cassavetes, Jim Brown and Trini Lopez, "The Great White Hope" (1970) starring James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander, Chester Morris, Hal Holbrook, Beah Richards and Moses Gunn, "Midway" (1976) featuring an international cast of superstars including Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Hal Holbrook, Toshiro Mifune, Robert Mitchum, Cliff Robertson, Glenn Corbett, Robert Wagner, Tom Selleck, James Shigeta, Ed Nelson, Dabney Coleman, Christopher George, Pat Morita and Robert Ito, "Revenge of the Pink Panther" (1978) co-starring Peter Sellers, Dyan Cannon, Robert Loggia and Herbert Lom, "10" (1979) starring Bo Derek, Dudley Moore, Brian Dennehy and Julie Andrews, "Private Benjamin" (1980) starring Goldie Hawn, Armand Assante and Eileen Brennan, "Wild Geese II" (1985) starring Scott Glenn, Edward Cox, Barbara Carrera and Laurence Olivier and "Nuts" (1987) starring Barbra Streisand, Richard Dreyfuss, Maureen Stapleton, Eli Wallach, James Whitmore, Leslie Nielsen and Karl Malden.
Alongside his film work he also appeared on the television series, "Checkmate", "Thriller", "Arrest & Trial", "The Fugitive", "The Outer Limits", 'The Name of the Game", "Kojak", "Ironside", "Cannon", "Death Stalk" and most recently, he added to his resume, the television series, "Moonlighting" and the television movie, "Something is Out There" (1988).
Robert Webber married twice throughout his lifetime, first to Miranda Jones in 1953 however by 1958 this marriage ended in divorce. He then married Del Mertens in 1972 and they remained together until he passed away from Lou Gehrig's disease on May 19th, 1989 in Malibu, California.
Filmography
1989 Behind God's Back
1988 Something Is Out There
1986-1988 Moonlighting
1987 Nuts
1987 The Ladies
1986 Assassin
1985 In Like Flynn
1985 Wild Geese II
1985 Half Nelson
1984 Cover Up
1984 No Man's Land
1984 Getting Physical
1983 Shooting Stars
1983 Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
1982 Don't Go to Sleep
1982 Not Just Another Affair
1982 The Final Option
1982 Chicago Story
1982 Bret Maverick
1982 Wrong Is Right
1981 Darkroom
1981 The Two Lives of Carol Letner
1981 S.O.B.
1980 Sunday Lovers
1980 Private Benjamin
1980 Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
1980 All Stars
1979 The Streets of L.A.
1979 Courage fuyons
1979 10
1979 Gardenia
1975-1979 The Rockford Files
1978 Kaz
1978 Revenge of the Pink Panther
1978 Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
1978 Casey's Shadow
1975-1978 Barnaby Jones
1977 The Choirboys
1977 Harold Robbins' 79 Park Avenue
1977 The Accuser
1977 Quincy M.E.
1977 The French Woman
1977 Passi di morte perduti nel buio
1977 McMillan & Wife
1976 Squadra antifurto
1976 Midway
1975 Police Woman
1975 S.W.A.T.
1975 Switch
1975 Flatfoot in Hong Kong
1975 Soldat Duroc, ça va être ta fête!
1975 Death Stalk
1971-1975 McCloud
1974 The Streets of San Francisco
1974 The Manhunter
1971-1974 Cannon
1974 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
1973-1974 Ironside
1974 Murder or Mercy
1973 Tenafly
1973 Kojak
1973 The Magician
1973 Double Indemnity
1973 Griff
1973 Hawkins
1973 Search
1972 Banyon
1972 Love, American Style
1972 Mission: Impossible
1972 Banacek
1972 Cutter
1971 $
1971 Thief
1971 The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971 Mannix
1971 The Young Lawyers
1971 Macédoine
1970 Hauser's Memory
1970 San Francisco International Airport
1970 The Virginian
1970 The Great White Hope
1970 The Movie Murderer
1969 The Bold Ones: The Lawyers
1969 The Big Bounce
1968 The Name of the Game
1968 Manon 70
1967 Don't Make Waves
1967 The Dirty Dozen
1967 Every Man Is My Enemy
1966 Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
1966 Hired Killer
1966 Harper
1966 The Silencers
1965 The Third Day
1965 The Sandpiper
1965 Hysteria
1964-1965 Kraft Suspense Theatre
1965 The Rogues
1964 The Outer Limits
1964 Mr. Broadway
1964 Brenner
1964 Espionage
1964 The Fugitive
1963 Ben Casey
1963 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1962-1963 The Defenders
1963 Arrest and Trial
1963 The Doctors and the Nurses
1963 The Greatest Show on Earth
1963 The Stripper
1963 Naked City
1962 Route 66
1961-1962 The Dick Powell Theatre
1962 Stoney Burke
1959-1962 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1962 The Paradine Case
1962 The Nun and the Sergeant
1961 Thriller
1961 The Investigators
1961 Checkmate
1960 Art Carney Special
1960 Play of the Week
1959 Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond
1959 The Rifleman
1959 New York Confidential
1958 Playhouse 90
1955-1957 Kraft Theatre
1957 12 Angry Men
1956 The Phil Silvers Show
1954-1956 Robert Montgomery Presents
1953 Three Steps to Heaven
1951-1953 Suspense
1953 Eye Witness
1951-1952 Studio One in Hollywood
1952 Tales of Tomorrow
1951-1952 Out There
1950 Highway 301
1950 Starlight Theatre
1950 The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse
