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Best Performance By an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
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As a film actor, he was nominated for three Academy Awards - Best Supporting Actor for Laura (1944) and The Razor's Edge (1946), and Best Actor in a Leading Role for Sitting Pretty (1948). Early life. Webb was born Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Golden Globes, USA. 1953 Nominee Golden Globe. Best Actor - Comedy or Musical. Stars and Stripes Forever. 1947 Winner Golden Globe. Best Supporting Actor. The Razor's Edge.
- November 19, 1889
- October 13, 1966
Clifton Webb. Actor: Laura. Already trained in dance and theater, he quit school at age 13 to study music and painting. By 19 he was a professional ballroom dancer in New York, and by his mid-twenties he was performing in musicals, dramas on Broadway and in London, and in silent movies.
- Actor, Soundtrack
- November 19, 1889
- 3 min
- October 13, 1966
His first real success in film came in middle age as the classy villain Waldo Lydecker in Laura (1944), followed by the part of Elliott Templeton in The Razor's Edge (1946) - both of which won him Oscar nominations.
- Actor, Soundtrack
- October 13, 1966
- November 19, 1889
A ballroom dancer and stage actor who contributed appearances to some silent and early sound films, Webb made a belated return to cinema with an Oscar-nominated performance in Otto Preminger's "Laura" (1944), as... Filmography. Read More. Satan Never Sleeps (1962) Father Bovard. Holiday for Lovers (1959) Robert Dean.
As a film actor, he was nominated for three Academy Awards - Best Supporting Actor for Laura (1944) and The Razor's Edge (1946), and Best Actor in a Leading Role for Sitting Pretty (1948).
Webb earned an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor for "Laura," in which he played the character Waldo Lydecker opposite Gene Tierney and Vincent Price. His Academy Award...