Peggy Webber

Acting

Peggy Webber

Born 1925-09-15 · Laredo, Texas, USA

Peggy Webber (September 15, 1925 – August 15, 2026) was an American actress and writer who worked in film, stage, television, and radio. Webber debuted on radio at age 12 on WOAI (AM) in San Antonio, Texas. Her vocal talents for radio were highlighted in Time magazine's August 5, 1946, issue. The Radio: Vocal Varieties article noted, "In three years, her latex voice has supplied radio with 150 different characters on some 2,500 broadcasts." Webber's screen debut came in the 1946 film Her Adventurous Night. In 1948, she played Lady Macduff in Orson Welles' adaptation of Macbeth. Her other notable roles include Submarine Command (1952), The Wrong Man (1956), and The Screaming Skull (1958). Radio pograms on which she was heard included The Dreft Star Playhouse, Dragnet, The Woman in My House,  Pete Kelly's Blues, Dr. Paul, The Damon Runyon Theater, and The Man Called X. In 1979, she played many characters on Sears Radio Theater. She is the founder of California Artists Radio Theatre. The September 8, 2019, episode of The Big Broadcast highlighted her career and included an interview in which she mentioned her projects at the time.

Acting credits

The Wrong Man poster
7.1

In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.

The Wrong Man

1956

Macbeth poster
7.3

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth commits a treasonous act and takes the throne for himself.

Macbeth

1948

The Smurfs: 'Tis the Season to Be Smurfy poster
6.7

The Smurfs learn the true meaning of Christmas when they put their own plans to the side in order to help out a poor man with a sick wife.

The Smurfs: 'Tis the Season to Be Smurfy

1987

Submarine Command poster
5.8

Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub during WW II. Subsequent years of meaningless navy ground assignments and the animosity of a former sailor, leave White (now a captain) feeling guilty and empty. His life spirals downward and his wife is about to leave him. Suddenly, he is forced into a dangerous rescue situation at the start of the Koren War.... reassigned to the same submarine where all of his problems began.

Submarine Command

1951

The Space Children poster
4.2

A glowing brain-like creature arrives on a beach near a rocket test site via a teleportation beam. The alien communicates telepathically with the children of scientists. The kids start doing the alien's bidding as the adults try to find out what's happening to their unruly offspring.

The Space Children

1958

Journey Into Light poster
6.5

John Burrows, an ordained minister from a small village in the East, envisions himself with a larger congregation. He is mortified when his wife drunkenly interrupts a sermon, then despondent after her suicide. Burrows travels to Los Angeles for a fresh start, but takes to the bottle himself and ends up arrested for public intoxication. A skid-row con man, Gandy, finds him a bed at a flop house, while a street preacher, Doc Thorssen, and daughter Christine take him to a local mission. Christine is blind. She falls in love with Burrows, enjoying his discussions of the spirit and the soul but knowing little of his past. One day she is struck by a streetcar and knocked unconscious, causing Burrows to once again question his faith. He ultimately accepts the Lord's will and is offered a better place to live and preach. Burrows decides he is better suited to the mission, with Christine by his side.

Journey Into Light

1951

Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists! poster
4.7

A comprehensive story of Hollywood's horror and science fiction films of the 1950s, told by the people who made them.

Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!

2021

The Screaming Skull poster
4.2

Newlyweds Eric and Jenni Whitlock retire to his desolate mansion, where Eric's first wife Marianne died from a mysterious freak accident. Jenni, who has a history of mental illness, begins to see strange things including a mysterious skull, which may or may not be a product of her imagination.

The Screaming Skull

1958

Little Miss Big poster
7.0

A wealthy eccentric women escapes from a mental institution and finds refuge with a financially strapped barber and his two daughters

Little Miss Big

1946

Little Miss Big poster
7.0

A wealthy eccentric women escapes from a mental institution and finds refuge with a financially strapped barber and his two daughters

Little Miss Big

1946

Her Adventurous Night poster
6.7

A boy's tall tale about a gun puts his parents and school principal in jail.

Her Adventurous Night

1946