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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. He is best known for film noir and horror film scores, in particular for the films of Val Lewton .
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.
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).
Roy Webb. The composer Roy Webb was born in New York City on October 3, 1888. The main musical influence in his life was his mother, who frequently took him as a boy to the Metropolitan Opera; and an uncle who was a well-known Gilbert and Sullivan favorite ensured that he had a thorough grounding in comic opera as well.
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.
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.
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...
