Roy Webb
Known For: Sound
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: October 3, 1888
Day of Death: December 10, 1982 (94 years old)
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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 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). His piano concerto from The Enchanted Cottage was performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Constantin Bakaleinikoff, in concert at the Hollywood Bowl in 1945. In 1961, a house fire destroyed Webb's manuscripts including film scores and unpublished concert music, after which Webb ceased composing. Webb died in 1982 from a heart attack at the age of 94. An alumnus of Columbia University, Webb wrote the fight song “Roar, Lion, Roar” for his alma mater in 1925. Several cues composed by Webb were used in the newsreel montage of Kane's life in Citizen Kane. Several cues composed by Webb replaced those by Bernard Herrmann in The Magnificent Ambersons after the film was re-edited. Webb also composed several cues (uncredited) for This is Cinerama, the first Cinerama production in 1952. The Christopher Palmer Collection of Roy Webb Scores is held at Syracuse University, New York.
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The Window
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A Dangerous Profession
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Roughshod
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Mighty Joe Young
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Holiday Affair
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My Friend Irma
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Easy Living
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Bad Men of Tombstone
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Make Mine Laughs
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1945
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The Body Snatcher
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Cornered
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Two O'Clock Courage
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Betrayal from the East
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Sing Your Way Home
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Love, Honor and Goodbye
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Those Endearing Young Charms
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The Enchanted Cottage
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Dick Tracy
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The Brighton Strangler
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Zombies on Broadway
1944
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Murder, My Sweet
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The Curse of the Cat People
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The Falcon Out West
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The Seventh Cross
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Rainbow Island
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The Master Race
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Bride by Mistake
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Action in Arabia
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Experiment Perilous
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Marine Raiders
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Tall in the Saddle
1943
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The Seventh Victim
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Journey into Fear
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The Ghost Ship
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The Falcon in Danger
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The Falcon Strikes Back
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Gangway for Tomorrow
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The Fallen Sparrow
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Petticoat Larceny
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Mr. Lucky
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Bombardier
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Flight for Freedom
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Ladies' Day
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Hitler's Children
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I Walked with a Zombie
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Behind the Rising Sun
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A Lady Takes a Chance
1942
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I Married a Witch
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Cat People
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The Falcon Takes Over
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The Falcon's Brother
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The Navy Comes Through
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Here We Go Again
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Bandit Ranger
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The Big Street
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Obliging Young Lady
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My Favorite Spy
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Joan of Paris
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Seven Miles from Alcatraz
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The Falcon Takes Over
1941
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The Saint In Palm Springs
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Parachute Battalion
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Tom, Dick and Harry
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Look Who's Laughing
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Weekend for Three
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The Bandit Trail
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Father Takes a Wife
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The Saint's Vacation
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The Devil and Miss Jones
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A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
1940
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Stranger on the Third Floor
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Curtain Call
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Stage to Chino
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Kitty Foyle
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Mexican Spitfire Out West
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I'm Still Alive
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Millionaires in Prison
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A Bill of Divorcement
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Bullet Code
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
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My Favorite Wife
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You Can't Fool Your Wife
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Irene
1939
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Timber Stampede
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Trouble in Sundown
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Racketeers of the Range
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Timber Stampede
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Bachelor Mother
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The Rookie Cop
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Love Affair
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In Name Only
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Trouble in Sundown
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The Saint Strikes Back
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The Fighting Gringo
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Sued for Libel
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Five Came Back
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Panama Lady
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Panama Lady
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Bad Lands
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The Spellbinder
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Twelve Crowded Hours
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That's Right – You're Wrong
1938
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Bringing Up Baby
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The Law West of Tombstone
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Condemned Women
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The Affairs of Annabel
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Go Chase Yourself
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Having Wonderful Time
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Lawless Valley
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A Man to Remember
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The Mad Miss Manton
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Bringing Up Baby
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Vivacious Lady
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Bringing Up Baby
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The Saint in New York
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Blond Cheat
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Blond Cheat
1937
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The Outcasts of Poker Flat
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High Flyers
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Breakfast for Two
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You Can't Buy Luck
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We're on the Jury
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Living on Love
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Sea Devils
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New Faces of 1937
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Stage Door
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The Woman I Love
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The Woman I Love
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Quality Street
1936
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The Last of the Mohicans
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The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
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Bunker Bean
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The Plough and the Stars
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Two in the Dark
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Silly Billies
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The Lady Consents
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Chatterbox
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A Woman Rebels
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The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
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La Cucaracha
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By Your Leave
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Cockeyed Cavaliers
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This Man Is Mine
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Hips, Hips, Hooray!
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Strictly Dynamite
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Let's Try Again
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Down to Their Last Yacht
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Kentucky Kernels
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Finishing School
1933
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Emergency Call
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Our Betters
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Blind Adventure
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Ann Vickers
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Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men
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The Right To Romance
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If I Were Free
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Topaze
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Diplomaniacs
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Bed of Roses
