Roy Webb

Personal Info

Know For

Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

1888-10-03 (94 years old)

Deathday

1982-12-10

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Roy Webb

Biography

Roy Webb (né Royden Denslow Webb; October 3, 1888 – December 10, 1982) was an American film music composer. 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. Born in Manhattan, New York, Webb orchestrated and conducted for the Broadway stage, before moving to Hollywood in the late 1920s to work as music director for Radio Pictures, later RKO Pictures. He remained at RKO until 1955, then worked freelance for several years, including scoring several episodes of Wagon Train. Webb is credited as composer or arranger on mo...

Production

1946

Notorious

as Original Music Composer

1947

Out of the Past

as Original Music Composer

1944

Murder, My Sweet

as Original Music Composer

1938

Bringing Up Baby

as Original Music Composer

1943

The Seventh Victim

as Original Music Composer

1945

The Body Snatcher

as Original Music Composer

1943

Journey into Fear

as Original Music Composer

1953

Second Chance

as Original Music Composer

1936

The Last of the Mohicans

as Original Music Composer

1952

Clash by Night

as Original Music Composer

1946

Bedlam

as Original Music Composer

1949

The Window

as Original Music Composer

1942

I Married a Witch

as Original Music Composer

1938

The Law West of Tombstone

as Music Director

1947

Riff-Raff

as Original Music Composer

1935

Sylvia Scarlett

as Music Director

1942

Cat People

as Original Music Composer

1953

Split Second

as Original Music Composer

1947

Crossfire

as Original Music Composer

1936

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

as Original Music Composer

1946

The Spiral Staircase

as Original Music Composer

1938

1944

The Curse of the Cat People

as Original Music Composer

1943

The Ghost Ship

as Original Music Composer

1945

Cornered

as Original Music Composer

1940

Stranger on the Third Floor

as Original Music Composer

1946

The Locket

as Original Music Composer

1945

Two O'Clock Courage

as Original Music Composer

1945

Betrayal from the East

as Original Music Composer

1952

The Lusty Men

as Original Music Composer

1950

Gambling House

as Original Music Composer

1943

The Falcon in Danger

as Original Music Composer

1944

The Falcon Out West

as Original Music Composer

1943

The Falcon Strikes Back

as Original Music Composer

1942

The Falcon Takes Over

as Original Music Composer

1942

The Falcon's Brother

as Original Music Composer

1938

The Affairs of Annabel

as Music Director

1944

The Seventh Cross

as Original Music Composer

1948

Race Street

as Original Music Composer

1950

The Secret Fury

as Original Music Composer

1941

The Saint In Palm Springs

as Original Music Composer

1935

Becky Sharp

as Music Director

1939

Timber Stampede

as Original Music Composer

1939

Trouble in Sundown

as Original Music Composer

1954

Track of the Cat

as Original Music Composer

1949

Roughshod

as Original Music Composer

1954

Dangerous Mission

as Original Music Composer

1957

Top Secret Affair

as Original Music Composer

1940

Curtain Call

as Original Music Composer

1944

Rainbow Island

as Original Music Composer

1955

Blood Alley

as Original Music Composer

1937

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

as Music Supervisor

1939

Racketeers of the Range

as Music Director

1948

Blood on the Moon

as Original Music Composer

1946

The Well Groomed Bride

as Original Music Composer

1939

Timber Stampede

as Music Director

1956

The First Texan

as Original Music Composer

1936

Bunker Bean

as Music Director

1938

Go Chase Yourself

as Music Director

1947

Easy Come, Easy Go

as Original Music Composer

1939

Bachelor Mother

as Original Music Composer

1959

Return of the Fly

as Additional Music

1938

Having Wonderful Time

as Music Director

1934

La Cucaracha

as Music Director

1947

Magic Town

as Original Music Composer

1955

Bengazi

as Original Music Composer

1955

The Americano

as Original Music Composer

1951

Hard, Fast and Beautiful

as Original Music Composer

1948

Rachel and the Stranger

as Original Music Composer

1952

At Sword's Point

as Original Music Composer

1935

Sylvia Scarlett

as Original Music Composer

1939

The Rookie Cop

as Music Director

1939

Love Affair

as Original Music Composer

1929

The Delightful Rogue

as Original Music Composer

1955

Marty

as Original Music Composer

1940

Stage to Chino

as Original Music Composer

1943

Gangway for Tomorrow

as Original Music Composer

1938

1950

The White Tower

as Original Music Composer

1949

Mighty Joe Young

as Original Music Composer

1947

They Won't Believe Me

as Original Music Composer

1946

Badman's Territory

as Original Music Composer

1945

Sing Your Way Home

as Original Music Composer

1945

Love, Honor and Goodbye

as Original Music Composer

1944

The Master Race

as Original Music Composer

1944

Bride by Mistake

as Original Music Composer

1943

The Fallen Sparrow

as Original Music Composer

1943

Petticoat Larceny

as Original Music Composer

1943

Mr. Lucky

as Original Music Composer

1943

Bombardier

as Original Music Composer

1943

Flight for Freedom

as Original Music Composer

1943

Ladies' Day

as Original Music Composer

1943

Hitler's Children

as Original Music Composer

1942

The Navy Comes Through

as Original Music Composer

1942

Here We Go Again

as Original Music Composer

1942

Bandit Ranger

as Original Music Composer

1942

The Big Street

as Original Music Composer

1942

Obliging Young Lady

as Original Music Composer

1941

Parachute Battalion

as Original Music Composer

1941

Tom, Dick and Harry

as Original Music Composer

1940

Kitty Foyle

as Original Music Composer

1940

Mexican Spitfire Out West

as Original Music Composer

1940

I'm Still Alive

as Original Music Composer

1940

Millionaires in Prison

as Original Music Composer

1940

A Bill of Divorcement

as Original Music Composer

1940

Bullet Code

as Original Music Composer

1938

A Man to Remember

as Original Music Composer

1937

High Flyers

as Original Music Composer

1936

The Plough and the Stars

as Original Music Composer

1930

Inside the Lines

as Original Music Composer

1937

Breakfast for Two

as Additional Music

1930

The Life of the Party

as Music Director

1938

The Mad Miss Manton

as Original Music Composer

1940

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

as Original Music Composer

1934

By Your Leave

as Original Music Composer

1936

Two in the Dark

as Original Music Composer

1936

Silly Billies

as Original Music Composer

1929

Rio Rita

as Orchestrator

1935

Alice Adams

as Original Music Composer

1939

In Name Only

as Original Music Composer

1941

Look Who's Laughing

as Original Music Composer

1941

Weekend for Three

as Original Music Composer

1941

The Bandit Trail

as Original Music Composer

1941

Father Takes a Wife

as Music Director

1937

You Can't Buy Luck

as Original Music Composer

1933

Emergency Call

as Original Music Composer

1934

Cockeyed Cavaliers

as Original Music Composer

1934

This Man Is Mine

as Original Music Composer

1934

Hips, Hips, Hooray!

as Original Music Composer

1954

She Couldn't Say No

as Original Music Composer

1939

Trouble in Sundown

as Music Director

1953

Affair with a Stranger

as Original Music Composer

1958

Teacher's Pet

as Original Music Composer

1957

Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend

as Original Music Composer

1956

The Girl He Left Behind

as Original Music Composer

1956

The Search for Bridey Murphy

as Original Music Composer

1956

Our Miss Brooks

as Original Music Composer

1955

The Sea Chase

as Original Music Composer

1955

The Kentuckian

as Original Music Composer

1955

Underwater!

as Original Music Composer

1954

The Raid

as Original Music Composer

1954

Alaska Seas

as Original Music Composer

1953

Houdini

as Original Music Composer

1933

Our Betters

as Original Music Composer

1933

Blind Adventure

as Original Music Composer

1933

Ann Vickers

as Original Music Composer

1933

Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men

as Original Music Composer

1933

The Right To Romance

as Original Music Composer

1933

If I Were Free

as Original Music Composer

1934

Strictly Dynamite

as Original Music Composer

1934

Let's Try Again

as Original Music Composer

1934

Down to Their Last Yacht

as Original Music Composer

1934

Kentucky Kernels

as Original Music Composer

1929

Seven Keys to Baldpate

as Original Music Composer

1930

Alias French Gertie

as Original Music Composer

1942

My Favorite Spy

as Original Music Composer

1949

Holiday Affair

as Original Music Composer

1948

I Remember Mama

as Original Music Composer

1947

The Perfect Marriage

as Original Music Composer

1950

Branded

as Original Music Composer

1933

Topaze

as Original Music Composer

1930

Girl of the Port

as Original Music Composer

1930

Shooting Straight

as Original Music Composer

1930

Conspiracy

as Original Music Composer

1933

Diplomaniacs

as Original Music Composer

1949

My Friend Irma

as Original Music Composer

1940

My Favorite Wife

as Original Music Composer

1937

We're on the Jury

as Original Music Composer

1949

Easy Living

as Original Music Composer

1941

The Saint's Vacation

as Original Music Composer

1937

Living on Love

as Original Music Composer

1944

Action in Arabia

as Original Music Composer

1949

Bad Men of Tombstone

as Original Music Composer

1950

Where Danger Lives

as Original Music Composer

1920

The Fear Market

as Assistant Director

1945

Those Endearing Young Charms

as Original Music Composer

1945

The Enchanted Cottage

as Original Music Composer

1935

The Nitwits

as Original Music Composer

1935

The Arizonian

as Original Music Composer

1949

Make Mine Laughs

as Original Music Composer

1951

Fixed Bayonets!

as Original Music Composer

1938

Bringing Up Baby

as Music Director

1946

Without Reservations

as Original Music Composer

1937

Sea Devils

as Music Director

1942

Joan of Paris

as Original Music Composer

1937

New Faces of 1937

as Music Director

1936

The Lady Consents

as Music Director

1940

You Can't Fool Your Wife

as Original Music Composer

1938

Vivacious Lady

as Music Director

1942

Seven Miles from Alcatraz

as Original Music Composer

1945

Dick Tracy

as Original Music Composer

1939

The Saint Strikes Back

as Music Director

1944

Experiment Perilous

as Original Music Composer

1938

1939

Sued for Libel

as Music Director

1937

Stage Door

as Music Director

1939

Five Came Back

as Original Music Composer

1935

1936

Chatterbox

as Original Music Composer

1939

Panama Lady

as Music

1939

Panama Lady

as Music Director

1939

Bad Lands

as Original Music Composer

1939

1940

Irene

as Original Music Composer

1938

The Saint in New York

as Original Music Composer

1937

The Woman I Love

as Additional Music

1937

The Woman I Love

as Music Director

1944

1939

Twelve Crowded Hours

as Music Director

1944

1936

1943

A Lady Takes a Chance

as Original Music Composer

1938

Blond Cheat

as Original Music Composer

1938

Blond Cheat

as Music Director

1937

Quality Street

as Original Music Composer

1941

The Devil and Miss Jones

as Music Director

1936

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

as Music Director

1939

That's Right – You're Wrong

as Original Music Composer

1945

The Brighton Strangler

as Additional Music

1951

The Blue Veil

as Additional Music

1932

Lady with a Past

as Additional Music

1941

A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob

as Original Music Composer

1942

The Falcon Takes Over

as Additional Music

1950

Vendetta

as Original Music Composer

1933

Bed of Roses

as Additional Music

1920

The Truth About Husbands

as Art Direction

1943

The Leopard Man

as Original Music Composer

1947

Sinbad the Sailor

as Original Music Composer

1933

Professional Sweetheart

as Music Director

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