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Royden Denslow Webb (October 3, 1888 – December 10, 1982) was an American film music composer. One of the charter members of ASCAP, Webb has hundreds of film music credits to his name, mainly with RKO Pictures. He is best known for film noir and horror film scores, in particular for the films of Val Lewton.
Jun 5, 2015 · Terry Teachout pays tribute to Roy Webb, a versatile and underrated composer who scored RKO’s horror and noir films. Learn about his style, his collaborations with Val Lewton and Alfred Hitchcock, and his main-title theme for Out of the Past.
Roy Webb (1888-1982) was a prolific and versatile film composer who worked at RKO for 20 years. He also composed music for Broadway shows, collaborated with Max Steiner and Bernard Herrmann, and created memorable themes for horror and noir films.
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Roy Webb. Composer: Notorious. Trained in classical music at Columbia University, Webb worked on Broadway by the time he was in his mid-20's, not only composing incidental music, but co-writing original plays with his older brother, the director Kenneth S. Webb.
- October 3, 1888
- December 10, 1982
Roy Webb was a Hollywood studio film composer, whose reputation as a dependable workhorse -- he scored in excess of 360 films and served as musical director on about 100 more -- has obscured the very…
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Roy Webb (1888-1982) was a prolific and versatile composer for RKO Pictures, especially for film noir and horror films. He received six Oscar nominations and wrote the fight song for Columbia University.
Webb is credited as composer or arranger on more than 200 films, and received Academy Award nominations for Quality Street (1937), My Favorite Wife (1940), I Married a Witch (1942), Joan of Paris (1942), The Fallen Sparrow (1943), The Fighting Seabees (1944), and The Enchanted Cottage (1945).
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