Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#20901
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Robert Webber works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Robert Webber appears in 7 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Robert. 12 Angry Men is the clearest case: a film rated 9.4 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for romance, comedy, mystery. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Blake Edwards, Jack Smight, Robert Aldrich and others, Robert Webber helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
12 Angry Men (1957) as Juror 12 · 12 Angry Men (1957) as Juror 12 · The Dirty Dozen (1967) as General Denton
Career snapshot
Ranked #20901 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
7
1957–1979
Career length
22 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.4
12 Angry Men
Average Nutevio score
7.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
9.0
12 Angry Men
Most frequent director
Blake Edwards
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Blake Edwards
Most common genre
Crime
3 titles
Average runtime
1h 57m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.3
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
7.1
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
1950s
9.1 average MV
The 1950s are where the work and the material meet. 12 Angry Men, 12 Angry Men — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1950s
9.1
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1950s
8.8
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1950s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. 12 Angry Men, 12 Angry Men.
Most productive era
1970s
3 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1950s | 1960s | 1970s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 9.12 films | — | 6.61 film |
| Action | — | 7.41 film | 6.61 film |
| Thriller | — | 6.61 film | — |
| Comedy | — | — | 6.32 films |
| Crime | 9.41 film | 6.61 film | 6.41 film |
| Romance | — | — | 6.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
195712 Angry Men
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Juror 12. The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.4 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
197910
The current state of the argument, as Hugh.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
7 of 7 films
as Juror 12
Directed by Sidney Lumet
as Juror 12
Directed by Sidney Lumet
as General Denton
Directed by Robert Aldrich
as Philippe Douvier
Directed by Blake Edwards
as Admiral Jack Fletcher
Directed by Jack Smight
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 8 of 8 titles · 8 total credits · active 1957–1985
The defining work
#1
Juror 12
12 Angry Men (1957)
Performance score9.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Juror 12 gives Robert Webber a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Juror 12
12 Angry Men (1957)
Performance score8.4
12 Angry Men asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Juror 12 is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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General Denton
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Performance score7.2
The Dirty Dozen asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. General Denton is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Philippe Douvier
Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)
Performance score6.6
Revenge of the Pink Panther asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Philippe Douvier is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Juror 12
Start here. 12 Angry Men is the clearest statement of what Robert Webber does — accessible, 96 minutes, and rated 9.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Robert at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
12 Angry Men (1957)
Same director as 12 Angry Men, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
A deliberate change of key after 12 Angry Men — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Midway (1976)
Keeps the war register of The Dirty Dozen but asks for a colder reading of it.
Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)
A deliberate change of key after Midway — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Sidney Lumet
Director
2 films together
Notably 12 Angry Men
Jack Smight
Director
2 films together
Notably Midway
Blake Edwards
Director
2 films together
Notably Revenge of the Pink Panther
Robert Aldrich
Director
1 film together
Notably The Dirty Dozen
Rudy Bond
Actor
1 film together
Notably 12 Angry Men
Martin Balsam
Actor
1 film together
Notably 12 Angry Men
John Fiedler
Actor
1 film together
Notably 12 Angry Men
Lee J. Cobb
Actor
1 film together
Notably 12 Angry Men
E.G. Marshall
Actor
1 film together
Notably 12 Angry Men
Jack Klugman
Actor
1 film together
Notably 12 Angry Men
Edward Binns
Actor
1 film together
Notably 12 Angry Men
Jack Warden
Actor
1 film together
Notably 12 Angry Men
Henry Fonda
Actor
1 film together
Notably 12 Angry Men
Joseph Sweeney
Actor
1 film together
Notably 12 Angry Men
Ed Begley
Actor
1 film together
Notably 12 Angry Men
George Voskovec
Actor
1 film together
Notably 12 Angry Men
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Sidney Lumet
Director
2 films together · 9.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
12 Angry MenJack Smight
Director
2 films together · 6.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
MidwayBlake Edwards
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Revenge of the Pink PantherRobert Aldrich
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Dirty DozenSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
12 Angry Men
as Juror 12
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
12 Angry Men
as Juror 12
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
12 Angry Men
as Juror 12
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
12 Angry Men
as Juror 12
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
12 Angry Men
as Juror 12
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Robert Webber has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.3 | 8.9 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #155 of 681 | #2 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 4 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 2 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 6 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.4 | 9.3 |
| Genres | Drama, Crime | Sci-Fi, Adventure, Drama, Thriller |
| Directors | Sidney Lumet | Christopher Nolan |
| Performance DNA | Quiet performance, Screen presence, Drama | Transformation, Screen presence, Rewatchability |
| Career timeline | 1957–1957 | 2006–2014 |
| Most iconic role | Juror 12 — 12 Angry Men | Professor Brand — Interstellar |
| Most rewatchable film | 12 Angry Men | The Dark Knight |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared collections
Crime Movies, Drama Movies
Michael Caine edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
22 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Crime Legend
Awarded
3 catalogue titles in crime, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
12 Angry Men
as Juror 12
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
12 Angry Men
as Juror 12
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
12 Angry Men
as Juror 12
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Harper
as Dwight Troy
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
12 Angry Men
as Juror 12
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Dirty Dozen
as General Denton
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
12 Angry Men
as Juror 12
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
12 Angry Men
as Juror 12
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 3 Nutevio collections
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