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Profile of Roy Webb
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Roy Webb |
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3rd October 1888 |
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New York, New York, USA |
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Composer |
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Roy Webb (October 3, 1888 - December 10, 1982) was a film music composer. Webb has hundereds of credits to his name, mainly with RKO films working on dark horror and film noir scores. He worked uncredited as a music arranger for Citizen Kane (stock music of his was used in this and many other films). 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 They Won't Believe Me (1947). He was nominated for seven Academy Awards in his long career from the 1920s through the 1950s. Educated at Columbia University, Webb first composed music for the stage.
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