Robert Webber

Robert Webber

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

Morte : 1989-05-19

História

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.

Perfil

Robert Webber

Filmes

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.
Querem me Enlouquecer
Francis MacMillan
Claudia Draper é uma prostituta de luxo que, para se defender, mata seu 'cliente' Allen Green. Sua defesa alega insanidade, com o apoio de seus pais, pois acreditam que só assim ela terá chance de escapar da condenação. Entretanto, isto também significa que ela ficará numa instituição para doentes mentais por tempo indeterminado. Então ela entrega seu caso a Aaron Levinsky, um advogado que tem como função não provar que ela é inocente mas sim sua sanidade, pois assim poderá ser julgada em tribunal e então tentar provar sua inocência. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
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.
Não Adormeça
Dr. Cole
O filme tem foco em uma família suburbana americana com três filhos: um garotinho, Kevin, e duas garotas: Jennifer e Mary. A primeira, mais velha, morre em um acidente de carro. Uma tragédia que faz com que a família se mude para outro lugar. Todavia o fantasma da garotinha retorna e aparece para sua irmã Mary. Ela diz estar muito triste e irritada, já que seus pais, sua avó e seu irmão não se lembram mais dela e que apenas Mary ainda a ama. E pra demonstrar esse amor, Jennifer pede um favor para Mary para que só assim possam ficar juntas pra sempre.
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.
Who Dares Wins
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?
O Homem com a Lente Mortal
Harvey
Duas perigosas armas nucleares são roubadas e posteriormente vendidas a um grupo terrorista, fato que pode desencadear a próxima Grande Guerra. O repórter televisivo Patrick Hale precisa investigar o caso e acaba se envolvendo em toda a trama envolvendo a polícia, o governo e líderes de instituições religiosas e políticas, mas inesperadamente surge uma pista de que seu próprio governo pode estar envolvido no crime.
As Duas Vidas de 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.: Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
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"
A Recruta Benjamin
Col. Clay Thornbush
A Recruta Benjamin, traz a consagrada comediante Goldie Hawn no filme que lhe deu uma indicação ao OSCAR de melhor atriz de 1980. Ela é a jovem e bela viúva Judy Benjamin, que responde a um sedutor anúncio alistando-se no exército americano. O difícil treinamento, seus problemas de adaptação e seus conflitos com a inflexível Capitã Lewis (Eileen Breenan, indicada ao OSCAR de Melhor Atriz Coadjuvante por esta personagem), retratados com muito humor em um filme verdadeiramente hilariante.
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!
Mulher Nota 10
Hugh
George Webber (Dudley Moore) é um compositor de sucesso, que vê Jenny Hanley (Bo Derek), uma noiva, a caminho da igreja. Ela o deixa totalmente obcecado, sendo que deste instante em diante estar com ela passa a ser a meta da sua vida, apesar de ter uma sólida relação com Samantha Taylor (Julie Andrews), uma renomada cantora e atriz. Esta busca vai lhe provocar uma estranha reação.
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.
A Vingança da Pantera Cor-de-Rosa
Philippe Douvier
Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers), o famoso detetive, é pego em uma emboscada por Philippe Douvier, que decide matá-lo. Só que Clouseau é mais esperto e consegue escapar, porém sua morte é anunciada na mídia, o que leva a todos acharem que ele está realmente morto. O detetive francês passa a tirar vantagem dessa situação e arma um plano na encolha para saber quem armou pra cima dele.
Unidos Por um Ideal
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.
Garotos do Coro
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.
Brigada Antifurto
Mr. Douglas
O pouco convencional polícia infiltrado Nico Giraldi investiga o roubo de documentos sensíveis por parte de um antigo e corrupto agente da CIA.
A Batalha de Midway
Admiral Jack Fletcher
A batalha de Midway ocorreu em junho de 1942, apenas seis meses depois do fatídico ataque japonês a Pearl Harbor. Midway mostra as histórias dramáticas dos homens que lutaram bravamente na batalha dando suas vidas por sua pátria. O elenco estrelado por Charlton Heston (Ben-Hur) e Henry Fonda (Era uma vez no Oeste) é garantia de muita emoção e talento em cena. Imperdível.
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.
Tragam-me a Cabeça de Alfredo Garcia
Sappensly
Alfredo Garcia engravida a filha de um latifundiário mexicano que, revoltado, oferece 1 milhão de dólares por sua cabeça. Um músico arruinado descobre que o procurado já está morto e corta a cabeça do defunto para receber a recompensa.
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.
O Horror do Passado
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
A história imortal da bela Manon que, embora ela ame o tolerante De Grieux, leva muitos amantes para satisfazer sua sede de luxuria. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Não Faça Onda
Rod Prescott
Um vendedor de piscinas vai em busca de uma bela mulher que arruinou seu carro e se envolve com estranhas figuras. Carlo Cofield (Tony Curtis) é um vendedor de piscinas de Nova York em férias na costa oeste, que vai em busca de uma bela mulher que arruinou seu carro (Claudia Cardinale) e se envolve com as figuras das praias da Califórnia, entre elas uma linda pára-quedista e ginasta, Malibu (Sharon Tate) e um campeão de fisiculturismo, Harry Hollard (David Draper, então Mr.
Os Doze Condenados
General Denton
Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, um comandante do exército norte-americano tem a missão de treinar e liderar um grupo de doze condenados pela corte marcial em uma missão que envolve a morte de oficiais alemães. Se eles sobreviverem à missão suicida, terão suas penas relaxadas.
Every Man Is My Enemy
Tony Costa
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
Milo Stewart
A sophisticated con man mounts an intricate plan to rob an airport bank while the Soviet premier is due to arrive.
Técnica de Um Homicídio
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.
O Caçador de Aventuras
Dwight Troy
Lew Harper, um detetive particular descolado, é contratado por uma ricaça californiana para localizar seu marido sequestrado. Depois de algumas investigações, o que parecia um desaparecimento voluntário fica um pouco mais complicado.
O Agente Secreto Matt Helm
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?
Adeus às Ilusões
Ward Hendricks
Em uma pequena cidade da Califórnia Laura Reynolds (Elizabeth Taylor), uma artista com um jeito muito livre de viver, cria Danny (Morgan Mason), seu filho adolescente. Ela gostaria de educá-lo em casa mas as autoridades não permitem, então ela manda Danny para uma escola dirigida por Edward Hewitt (Richard Burton), um sacerdote episcopal que é casado com Claire (Eva Marie Saint). Porém, quando vai visitar o filho, Laura se apaixona por Edward e é correspondida.
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.
12 Homens e Uma Sentença
Juror 12
Um jovem porto-riquenho é acusado do brutal crime de ter matado o próprio pai. Quando ele vai a julgamento, doze jurados se reúnem para decidir a sentença, levando em conta que o réu deve ser considerado inocente até que se prove o contrário. Onze dos jurados têm plena certeza de que ele é culpado, e votam pela condenação, mas um jurado acha que é melhor investigar mais para que a sentença seja correta. Para isso ele terá que enfrentar diferentes interpretações dos fatos, e a má vontade dos outros jurados, que só querem ir logo para suas casas.
Estrada 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.