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James Ruffin Webb (October 4, 1909 – September 27, 1974) was an American screenwriter. He was best known for writing the screenplay for the film How the West Was Won (1962), which garnered widespread critical acclaim and earned him an Academy Award .
Discover the science mission of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), from exoplanet atmospheres to the first light in the universe—and more!
Academy Award-winning writer James R. Webb’s credits include Rags to Riches (1941), Apache (1954), Trapeze (1956), The Big Country (1958), Cape Fear (1962), the Oscar-winning How the West Was Won (1962), They Call Me Mister Tibbs (1970), and The Organization (1970).
The James Webb Space Telescope (sometimes called Webb or JWST) is a large infrared telescope with a 6.5-meter primary mirror. Webb will be the premier observatory of the next decade, serving thousands of astronomers worldwide.
James R. Webb was born on 4 October 1910 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was a writer, known for How the West Was Won (1962), Cape Fear (1962) and Cape Fear (1991). He died on 27 September 1974 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Sep 29, 1974 · LOS ANGELES, Sept. 28 (AP) —James R. Webb, an Academy Award ‐winning screenwriter, died yesterday in Mount Sinai Hospital. He was 64 years old, Surviving are his widow, Susan; a son, James Cox,...
James R. Webb (October 4, 1909 – September 27, 1974) was an American writer. He won an Academy Award in 1963 for How the West Was Won.Webb was born in Denver, Colorado, and graduated from Stanford University in 1930.
