Robert Webber

Robert Webber

出生 : 1924-10-14, Santa Ana, California, USA

死亡 : 1989-05-19

略歴

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.

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参加作品

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Self (archive footage)
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the Western genre forever.
Nuts
Francis MacMillan
A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.
The Ladies
Jerry
Sentimental drama in which, following her divorce, a middle-aged woman (Talia Balsam) moves in with her daughter (Patricia Elliot). But things do not run smoothly...
Assassin
Calvin Lantz
A retired agent from an Intelligence Agency is contacted by the Agency in order to stop an ultra-secret robot who is killing some government officials. That will be not an easy task, because the robot looks human and it was specifically built to be an efficient killer, not to mention that it is almost invulnerable.
Wild Geese II
Robert McCann
A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.
In Like Flynn
Col. Harper
Half Nelson
Harrison
Rocky Nelson is a New York cop, who after making a major bust and selling the rights of his story to Hollywood decides to try his luck out as an actor. However, when he gets there, the directors think that he is too short to be an actor. He is then approach by someone who offers him a job at a Hollywood security agency, cause he would fit in there being an ex-cop and while working there he could come in contact with some Hollywood heavy-weights who could give him the break he needs. And at the same he gets to live in Dean Martin's guest-house.
Answers
Ted Talbot (Segment "Twinkle, Twinkle")
Three of Ernest Thompson's short plays are presented, each involving a surprise visitor. In the first, "A Good Time," a vacationing California Highway Patrolman visits a young woman in New York who had told him if he ever came to New York, she'd show him a good time. In the second, "The Constituent," a United States Senator drops in on a constituent who has been sending him scathing and profane letters for decades. Lastly, in "Twinkle, Twinkle," a restless housewife who has been writing fan letters to a television soap opera star, receives a surprise visit by him on her husband's bowling night.
Cover Up
Mason Carter
In this feature-length pilot, Dani Reynolds thinks that she has the perfect life, a perfect job, she's a renowned fashion photographer, and has a loving husband. But things change for her when her husband is killed. She learns that her husband wasn't the mild mannered person she thought he was. It seems that he was a government agent who works with no official government backing. She then recruits Mac Harper an ex-Green Beret to help her find out what happened to her husband.
No Man's Land
Will Blackfield
Sheriff Stella Stevens uses her wiles and the help of her three resourceful daughters -- one by each of her previous husbands -- to rope in a notorious desperado and a band of foreign revolutionaries in this light-hearted Western.
Getting Physical
Hugh Gibley
The world of female bodybuilding provides the backdrop for this tale of an aspiring young actress who initially becomes interested in the sport as a means of self-defense following a physical attack by two men, but then finds that while concentrating on building up her body her relationship with her parents, with whom she is living, and her new-found boyfriend, a young cop, is breaking down. Several noted bodybuilders and iron-pumpers, male and female, put in appearances to give this production an added authenticity.
Shooting Stars
Woodrow Norton
Two television actors who play detectives are fired when the show's star gets upset that they are getting the better parts to play. So, they decide to try it for real.
Starflight One
Felix
Starflight One, a commercial aircraft that can whisk passengers around the globe in a matter of hours, embarks on its maiden voyage. The trip goes horribly awry, however, when the aircraft is forced out of the atmosphere and into outer space. As it is too dangerous to attempt reentry, Captain Cody Briggs, his passengers and his crew brave declining levels of oxygen while NASA scientists scramble to launch a rescue mission in a race against time.
Don't Go to Sleep
Dr. Cole
One year after a young girl dies in a car accident, her sister begins seeing visions of her, while the family home is plagued by strange happenings.
Not Just Another Affair
Professor Wally Dawson
A lady marine biologist, determined to save herself until marriage, meets a handsome attorney who is not used to being rejected sexually, and it becomes a battle of wills as to who will emerge the winner.
ファイナル・オプション
General Ira Potter
When SAS Captain Peter Skellen is thrown out of the service for gross misconduct due to unnecessary violence and bullying, he is soon recruited by The People's Lobby, a fanatical group aiming to hold several US dignitaries hostage. But Skellen's dismissal is a front to enable him to get close to the terrorist group. Can he get close enough to stop the Lobby from creating an international incident?
Wrong Is Right
Harvey
Political double-talk, dirty tricks, hidden microphones, spy satellites, bugging the Oval Office and a nuclear bomb for sale are all ingredients in this swift, funny and frightening look at the possibilities in today's political arenas. Sean Connery stars as TV Newsman Patrick Hale on an international chase to track two suitcase sized nuclear weapons and to uncover the twisting maze of apparent involvement of US Government agencies.
The Two Lives of Carol Letner
Ed Leemans
A former call-girl who has left the profession behind to pursue a college career is recruited by the police to turn one more trick in order to trap the person laundering syndicate money.
S.O.B.
Ben Coogan
A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.
Sunday Lovers
Henry Morrison (segment "The French Method")
A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France, USA and Italy). "An Englishman's Home" "The French Method" "Armando's Notebook" "Skippy"
プライベート・ベンジャミン
Col. Clay Thornbush
ジュディ・ベンジャミンは、甘やかされて育った良家のご令嬢。 だが、結婚初夜に夫に先立たれてからというもの、ツキに見放されてしまう。こともあろうに、人手不足に悩む軍隊の新兵集めの甘い言葉にだまされて、入隊させられてしまうのだ。そこから彼女の本当の災難が始まった。
All Stars
Harry Stabling
Three music students decide to create a science-fiction musical.
The Streets of L.A.
Ralph Salkin
A woman embarks on a lone pursuit of three teenaged hoods in the Los Angeles barrio after becoming incensed at their malicious tire-slashing on parked cars including hers.
Courage fuyons
Charley
At forty years old, Martin Belhomme leads a quiet life with his wife and two children. One day, he falls hopelessly in love with Eva, a cabaret singer. He decides to follow her to Amsterdam. From then on, his life becomes very eventful!
テン
Hugh
A Hollywood songwriter goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy blonde newlywed.
Gardenia
Tony Caruso
A businessman comes into conflict with a gangster when he refuses to allow drugs to be sold through his restaurant.
The Young Runaways
Fred Lockhart
Heartless parents C.L. Doyle and his wife take two of their older children, Rosebud & Joseph T. Doyle, on a family vacation to Alaska, but dump their younger ones, Freddy & Margaret Jean, in a Los Angeles foster home. Infuriated by this, Rosebud talks Joseph T. into running away with her so that they can break their younger siblings out of the system, which sparks a manhunt, and an outburst of sympathy among kids everywhere.
ピンク・パンサー4
Philippe Douvier
ニューヨークの組織にバカにされたフランス暗黒街のボスは、国民的英雄で世界中のスパイを返り討ちにしたクルーゾーを殺し、その力を誇示しようとする。が、クルーゾーと女装泥棒を間違えて暗殺。政府もそれを信じて国葬を発表してしまう。家へ帰ったクルーゾーは、助手のケイトーが家を東洋風の娼館に改造しているのを知りあきれ返るが、偶然出会ったドーヴィエの元秘書で愛人のシモーヌから、香港で大量の麻薬取引が行われることを知りケイトーを連れて香港へ飛ぶ。ニューヨークから来たイタリア人マフィアに変装したクルーゾーは秘密の取引現場潜入に成功する……。
Casey's Shadow
Mike Marsh
Casey's family raises and trains race horses, and their latest undersized foal named Casey's Shadow does not seem to have a lot going for it, but may turn out to be a champion.
クワイヤボーイズ
Deputy Chief Riggs
A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after-hours debauchery.
The Accuser
Le cadre américain
In this sardonic comedy, after an executive is killed in a mysterious automobile accident, the French offices of his multinational company is inundated with mysteriously threatening be-ribboned anti-capitalist tracts, delivered overnight to everyone's desks. Later, the executive's body is brought to company offices for an official wake -- only no one at the company has ordered that such a thing be done. A mysterious prankster, who is able to imitate the voice of the company's president, has arranged these things. When Americans from the head office get wind of these developments, they institute a search for the perpetrator which leads to mysterious subterranean passages under the company's skyscraper.
Madame Claude
Howard
Based on a true story. Madame Claude, a well connected Parisienne with dark past, runs a network of high-class call girls. She sends her girls to any place in the world to satisfy sexual desires of wealthy and powerful men. Claude's manipulations also involve big business and politics. Meanwhile, photographer David Evans is trying to clear his own criminal record by providing the authorities with pictures of Claude's girls with important clients in compromising positions. But powerful men can do anything to keep their secrets...
Death Steps in the Dark
Inspector
An Italian reporter is travelling on the Instabul-Athens train. A woman is murdered with the reporter's letter-opener so that makes him the main suspect. With the help of his Swedish girlfriend he starts investigating in order to prove his innocence.
Hit Squad
Mr. Douglas
A gang of thieves are robbing luxury apartments in Rome, but after emptying the villa of the wealthy Mr. Douglas, the thieves are beginning to die.
ミッドウェイ
Admiral Jack Fletcher
太平洋戦争が開戦して間もない1942年の4月18日。突如、米空母ホーネットより発艦したB25が日本に襲来し東京を初めとする主要都市が被害を受ける。被害は少なかったとはいえ連勝中の日本軍にとっては痛手であった。広島にいた山本五十六は急遽友永丈市や南雲忠一を召集し真珠湾攻撃で打ち漏らした敵空母を沈め、それに合わせてミッドウェー諸島を占領しハワイ攻略に結びつけるMI作戦(ミッドウェー海戦の略称)を発案。直ちに4隻の空母からなる機動部隊と戦艦を筆頭とする主力部隊を編成しミッドウェーに進撃した。
Flatfoot in Hong Kong
Sam Accardo
Inspector Rizzo is accused of drug trafficking. In order to clear his name he has to find out who is the person, from a Mafia ring, who has infiltrated his police department.
The Dangerous Mission
Sergeant John Lewis
1944. A young French soldier is involved, without really wanting it, into American operations for Liberation.
Death Stalk
Hugh Webster
The whitewater raft trip of two couples is interrupted by a visit from four prison escapees who take the women hostage to aid in their escape. The husbands break free from their bonds and raft down the river in hopes of rescuing their wives.
Pacific Challenge
Narrator
1975 documentary "Pacific Challenge", directed by Robert Amram.
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Sappensly
An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.
Murder or Mercy
Dr. Eric Stoneman
An attorney comes out of retirement to defend a prominent doctor, who has been accused of the mercy killing of his wife.
Double Indemnity
Edward Norton
A scheming wife lures an insurance investigator into helping murder her husband and then declare it an accident. The investigator's boss, not knowing his man is involved in it, suspects murder and sets out to prove it.
Cutter
Meredith
Private eye searches for a missing football quarterback in Chicago.
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Attorney
A bank security expert plots with a call girl to rob the safety deposit boxes of three very different criminals from a high-tech bank in Hamburg.
Thief
James Calendar
A professional thief tries to break with his past but has to pull off one last job to pay off a gambling debt.
Macédoine
Sanderberg
The tale of a young pretty girl's rise to a top model and her finding of emptiness in her life after success.
Hauser's Memory
Dorsey
A scientist is persuaded by the government to inject himself with the brain fluid of a dying colleague in order to preserve missile-defense secrets. However, he finds that he is now torn between his own wife and that of his dead colleague, who was a Nazi sympathizer.
The Great White Hope
Dixon
A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.
The Movie Murderer
Karel Kessler
An experienced arson investigator takes along his young associate as they try to find an arsonist who is burning down movie sets.
The Big Bounce
Bob Rodgers
A Vietnam veteran and ex-con is persuaded by a shady woman to rob a $50,000 payroll account on a California produce farm. But who is playing who?
Manon 70
Ravaggi
Manon is an amoral, free spirit who uses sex to surround herself in relatively luxurious surroundings.
Don't Make Waves
Rod Prescott
New Yorker Carlo Cofield goes on a vacation to Southern California, where he quickly becomes immersed in the easy-going local culture while getting entangled in two beachside romances.
特攻大作戦
General Denton
占領下のフランス、ドイツ軍司令部を壊滅させるため、12人の囚人による特殊部隊が組織された。目指すは鉄壁の防御を誇る古城。彼らは命を顧みず、敵地深く潜入するが……。 いずれ劣らぬクセ者俳優たちが、それぞれのプロフェッショナルぶりを発揮する傑作アクション。
Every Man Is My Enemy
Tony Costa
現金作戦
Milo Stewart
A sophisticated con man mounts an intricate plan to rob an airport bank while the Soviet premier is due to arrive.
The Hired Killer
Clint Harris
Hit-man Clint Harris has one more job to do before he can retire. The corporation which hires him demands that Harris "erase" an ex-employee who has become a snitch for the police. At first Harris refuses but when his own brother is assassinated he accepts the job.
動く標的
Dwight Troy
主人公ハーパー役をポール・ニューマンが演じた、ロス・マクドナルドのハードボイルド小説「動く標的」に基づく大ヒット作。それまでに23本の映画に出演していたニューマンが初めて探偵役に挑み、ハードボイルドジャンルを再燃させた画期的作品である。うだつの上がらない探偵が、ある入り組んだ誘拐殺人事件をきっかけに活躍のチャンスをつかむ。脚本家ウィリアム・ゴールドマンによって粋な会話と新天地ロサンゼルスが“ハーパー流”に見事に脚色されている。資産家の女(ローレン・バコール)、銃を忍ばせる弁護士(アーサー・ヒル)、プールサイドに陣取るジゴロ(ロバート・ワグナー)、酒びたりの元女優(シェリー・ウィンタース)、熱狂的なジャズファン(ジュリー・ハリス)、ハーパーの別居中の妻(ジャネット・リー)、そして(ストローザー・マーティン率いる)“雲の寺”という謎の宗教団体。それぞれが謎を解く鍵を握っているのか? あるいは、ハーパーに向かって引き金を引くのは誰なのか?
The Silencers
Sam Gunther
Matt Helm is called out of retirement to stop the evil Big O organization who plan to explode an atomic bomb over Alamagordo, NM, and start WW III.
The Third Day
Dom Guardiano
A man stumbles out of a car crash with no memory of what transpired. Everyone who he meets suggests that he is a ruthless man with an aggressive temper. Could he be deliberately blocking out memories of his past?
The Sandpiper
Ward Hendricks
A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wedded headmaster of an Episcopalian boarding school in Monterey, California.
A Statue for 'The Sandpiper'
Self
Promotional short for the film "The Sandpiper".
Hysteria
Chris Smith
An American wakes up in an English hospital unable to remember anything of his life before a recent car accident. With only a photograph torn from a newspaper to guide him, and an unknown benefactor, he attempts to unravel what looks increasingly like a bizarre murder.
The Stripper
Ricky Powers
An aging former movie starlet whose Hollywood career went nowhere, now reduced to dancing with a third-rate touring show, finds herself stranded in a small town where she's courted by an infatuated and naive local teenager.
The Nun and the Sergeant
Sgt. McGrath
A weary sergeant in Korea commands military prisoners on a dangerous mission and is joined by a nun and a group of schoolgirls in enemy territory.
十二人の怒れる男
Juror 12
既に法廷劇の代名詞となって久しい、アメリカ映画史に輝く傑作ドラマ。元々は高い評価を受けたTV作品で、その脚本・演出コンビによる映画版だが、そのいかにもTV向きの密室劇を上手くスクリーンに転化させた手腕は見事の一言。17歳の少年が起こした殺人事件に関する陪審員の討論が始まったが、誰が見ても有罪と思えたその状況下で、ひとりの陪審員が無罪を主張した事から物語は動き始める……。
Highway 301
William "Bill" Phillips
The "Tri-State" gang goes on a successful bank robbing streak causing local authorities to turn up the heat on the daring career criminals.