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Yes the Webley has featured in a few movies, the iconic Pink Floyd movie "The Wall" has a sequence where Pink's father cleans his Webley and recharges the cylinder while in his bunker in the trenches. He is later killed in the trenches and then another sequence of Pink as a school boy home alone finding a box of 455 ammo amongst his fathers returned posessions. He takes some of the ammo and along with some school mates put a round on the railway tracks as a train approaches, the exploding 455 round is the cue for another great PF song in the movie.

I had my Webley at the time I saw the movie and also a box of the same ammo so these movie scenes have always stuck in my mind.

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I have to have a look for images from that movie too. Thanks.

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I actually have the movie on DVD but don't know how to take images from a DVD so it will be good to see them posted for posterity.

The old Webley featured and was used in the making of many movies, whereas the 1911 45 Colt Auto featured in many but was not actually used in firing scenes as it could not be made to operate with blanks.
Probably the most famous movie scene where the 1911 45 Colt Auto should have featured in action was the movie "Sergeant York" where the actor playing the part of Sgt York single handedly takes out a pile of Germans, uses a Luger because it could be made to fire blanks. The movie was based on actual events and York used a 1911 45 Auto to carry out his heroic deed. The use of a Luger in the movie must have grated somewhat with many veterans?

At least our anti-hero Blackadder used the real thing

Gun Digest 1985 features a very comprehensive article on the Webley revolver and the ammo for it.