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Robert Webber
BornSeptember 14 1924(1924--)
Santa Ana, California, U.S.
DiedMay 19 1989 (aged 66) (Lou Gehrig's disease)
Malibu, California, U.S.
OccupationActor
Spouse(s)Miranda "Sammy Jones (?-?) (divorced)

Biography

Robert Webber (October 14, 1924 Santa Ana, California - May 19, 1989 Malibu, California) was an American actor who starred as Juror #12 in the 1957 movie 12 Angry Men.

Career

Webber led a forty year career as a character actor during which he also played with Dudley Moore in 10 (1979) and as Alexander Hayes, father of Maddie Hayes (Cybill Shepherd), in the hit series Moonlighting.Other notable turns were in the movies The Dirty Dozen where he played a general who bullied Lee Marvin and as one of the many LA low lifes Paul Newman encounters in the anti-hero saga, Harper. He died from Lou Gehrig's disease at age 64.

Personal life

He was married to actress and model Miranda "Sammy" Jones in the late 1950s and was divorced in the early '60s.

Filmography

Film

  • Highway 301 (1950) - William B. Phillips
  • 12 Angry Men (1957) - Juror#12
  • The Nun and the Sergeant (1962) - Sgt. McGrath
  • The Stripper (1963) - Ricky Powers
  • Hysteria (1965) - Chris Smith
  • The Sandpiper (1965) - Ward Hendricks
  • The Third Day (1965) - Dom Guardiano
  • The Silencers (1966) - Sam Gunther
  • Harper (1966) - Dwight Troy
  • Tecnica di un omicidio (1966) - Clint Harris
  • Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966) - Milo Stewart
  • Qualcuno ha tradito (1967) - Tony Costa
  • The Dirty Dozen (1967) - General Denton
  • Don't Make Waves (1967) - Rod Prescott
  • Manon 70 (1968) - Ravaggi
  • The Big Bounce (1969) - Bob Rodgers
  • The Great White Hope (1970) - Dixon
  • Macédoine (1971) - Sandeberg
  • $ (1971) - Attorney
  • Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) - Sappensly
  • Piedone a Hong Kong (1975) - Sam Accardo
  • Soldat Duroc, ça va être ta fête (1975) - Sergeant John Lewis
  • Midway (1976) - RAdm. Frank J. 'Jack' Fletcher
  • Squadra antifurto (1976) - Mr. Duglas
  • Passi di morte perduti nel buio (1977) - Inspector
  • Imprécateur, L' (1977) - Le cadre américain
  • Madame Claude (1977) - Howard
  • The Choirboys (1977) - Deputy Chief Riggs
  • Casey's Shadow (1978) - Mike Marsh
  • Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978) - Phillip Douvier
  • Gardenia, il giustiziere della mala (1979) - Caruso
  • 10 (1979) - Hugh
  • Courage fuyons (1979) - Charley
  • Tous vedettes (1980) - Harrt
  • Private Benjamin (1980) - Col. Clay Thornbush
  • Sunday Lovers (1980) - Henry Morrison
  • S.O.B. (1981) - Ben Coogan
  • Wrong Is Right (1982) - Harvey
  • Who Dares Wins (1982) - General Ira Potter
  • Wild Geese II (1985) - Robert McCann
  • Nuts (1987) - Francis MacMillan

Television/Radio Program

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13 April, 1957
Running time 96 minutes
Language English
Budget $340,000 (estimated)
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12 Angry Men is an American drama film produced in 1957 by first time director Sidney Lumet based on the play
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Dudley Moore

Birth name Dudley Stuart John Moore
Born March 19 1935(1935--)
Dagenham, London, England
Died March 27 2002 (aged 68)
Plainfield, New Jersey


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Cybill Shepherd

Cybill Shepherd at 42nd KVIFF
Birth name Cybill Lynne Shepherd
Born January 18 1950 (1950--) (age 57)
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Novel:
E.M. Nathanson
Screenplay:
Nunnally Johnson
Lukas Heller
Starring Lee Marvin
Ernest Borgnine
Charles Bronson
Jim Brown
Music by Frank De Vol
Distributed by MGM
Release date(s) June 15, 1967
Running time 150 min.
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Paul Newman

Paul Newman at Eugene McCarthy rally, 1968
Birth name Paul Leonard Newman
Born January 26 1925 (1925--) (age 82)
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Harper or Harpers may refer to:
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
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ICD-10 G 12.2
ICD-9 335.20

OMIM 105400
DiseasesDB 29148
MedlinePlus 000688
eMedicine neuro/14   emerg/24 pmr/10
MeSH D000690 Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
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Highway 301 was a 1950 crime drama/film noir directed and written by Andrew L. Stone.

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A gang of robbers are terrorizing and robbing banks and payrolls in North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland.
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United States:
13 April, 1957
Running time 96 minutes
Language English
Budget $340,000 (estimated)
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12 Angry Men is an American drama film produced in 1957 by first time director Sidney Lumet based on the play
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The Sandpiper is a 1965 film starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. It was directed by Vincente Minnelli. Taylor portrays a free-spirited, unwed single mother living with her young son in an isolated beach house on the California coast.
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The Silencers is the title of an American secret agent comedy motion picture produced in 1966 and starring Dean Martin as agent Matt Helm. It is only loosely based upon the novel of the same name by Donald Hamilton.
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Harper is a 1966 film written by William Goldman from a novel by Ross Macdonald. The movie starred Paul Newman as the eponymous Lew Harper (Lew Archer in the novel).
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Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round is a 1966 crime film written and directed by Bernard Girard. It stars James Coburn, Camilla Sparv, Aldo Ray, Nina Wayne, Todd Armstrong, and Rose Marie.
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Novel:
E.M. Nathanson
Screenplay:
Nunnally Johnson
Lukas Heller
Starring Lee Marvin
Ernest Borgnine
Charles Bronson
Jim Brown
Music by Frank De Vol
Distributed by MGM
Release date(s) June 15, 1967
Running time 150 min.
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