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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. Composer: Notorious. Trained in classical music at Columbia University, Webb worked on Broadway by the time he was in his mid-20's, not only composing incidental music, but co-writing original plays with his older brother, the director Kenneth S. Webb.
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).
Mar 27, 2021 · Roy Webb was RKO's Music Director and chief composer during the heyday of that studio and he is best known today for his Val Lewton horror film scores as well as his soundtracks for...
Jun 9, 2019 · https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXCALJAH2Zp5VFHmVg-p4S1p2AYMP7MPy The Spiral Staircase 1946 music by Roy Webb ~ original film music extracted from th...
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...
Jun 5, 2015 · All 10 films were scored by Roy Webb, who served as RKO’s chief staff composer from 1936 to 1955. A kindly, soft-spoken craftsman who died in 1982 at the age of 94, Webb is the most obscure of the major film-music composers.
