Robert L. Webber (October 14, 1924 - May 19, 1989) was an American actor who starred as Juror #12 in the 1957 movie 12 Angry Men.
Webber was born in Santa Ana, California, the son of Alice and Robert Webber, who was a merchant seaman. He was a U.S. Marine during World War II serving on Guam and Okinawa. 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 ...
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Robert L. Webber (October 14, 1924 - May 19, 1989) was an American actor who starred as Juror #12 in the 1957 movie 12 Angry Men.
Webber was born in Santa Ana, California, the son of Alice and Robert Webber, who was a merchant seaman. He was a U.S. Marine during World War II serving on Guam and Okinawa. 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 Nun and the Sergeant where he played the lead, The Dirty Dozen where he played a general who bullied Lee Marvin, one of the many LA low lifes Paul Newman encounters in the anti-hero saga, Harper, and a killer in The Silencers.
Webber was married to actress and model Miranda "Sammy" Jones in the late 1950s and was divorced in the early '60s. He died from Lou Gehrig's disease at age 64 in Malibu, California.
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