Roy Webb

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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…

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Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1940-10-14

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Roy Webb (October 3, 1888 – December 10, 1982) was a film music composer. Born in New York City, Webb has hundreds of credits to his name, mainly with RKO films working on dark horror and film noir scores. Several cues from RKO films, for which he had composed music, were used in the newsreel montage on Kane's life in Citizen Kane. As music composer for over 200 films, Webb scored Out of the Past (1947), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Love Affair (1939), Cat People (1942), The Leopard Man (1943) and

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Instance of

human

Given name

Roy

Family name

Webb

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

New York City

Place of death

Santa Monica

Occupation

art director

Educated at

Columbia University

Languages spoken

English language

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