Roy Webb
Sign in to saveAmerican film music composer (1888-1982)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 11
Top works
- Super Mario Libro Di Attività
- Super Mario Libro de Actividades
- Super Mario Livre D'activités
- Pony Express, voyage of discovery
- Last Canyon Voyage
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1940-10-14
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Discography
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Roy Webb (October 3, 1888 – December 10, 1982) was a film music composer. Born in New York City, Webb has hundreds of credits to his name, mainly with RKO films working on dark horror and film noir scores. Several cues from RKO films, for which he had composed music, were used in the newsreel montage on Kane's life in Citizen Kane. As music composer for over 200 films, Webb scored Out of the Past (1947), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Love Affair (1939), Cat People (1942), The Leopard Man (1943) and
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Roy
- Family name
- Webb
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Place of death
- Santa Monica
- Occupation
- art director
- Educated at
- Columbia University
- Languages spoken
- English language
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- date of birth
- 1888-10-03
- date of death
- 1982-12-10
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- place of burial
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- manner of death
- natural causes
- related category
- Category:Films scored by Roy Webb
- Commons category
- Roy Webb
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