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Roy Webb. Royden Denslow Webb (October 3, 1888 – December 10, 1982) was an American film music composer. One of the charter members of ASCAP, [1] Webb has hundreds of film music credits to his name, mainly with RKO Pictures.
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.
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 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).
Dec 21, 1982 · Roy Webb, who helped found the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers and wrote several musical scores for movies, died of a heart attack at St. John's Hospital Dec. 10, his...
Roy Webb (1888-1982) was a prolific and versatile composer who scored over 360 films and worked with Max Steiner at RKO. He is best known for his atmospheric music for Val Lewton's horror cycle and was nominated for five Oscars.
