Roy Webb Music Videos

Roy Webb (October 3, 1888 – December 10, 1982) was an American-born composer. Although a majority of his work was at RKO Pictures, where many of his scores were for films considered to be fairly light in content, he is better known today for the scores he composed for film noir and the horror genre, particularly those directed by Val Lewton. Webb was born in New York City, where he orchestrated and conducted for various Broadway shows. He relocated to Hollywood in the late 1920s to work under contract for Radio Pictures, later RKO Pictures. He remained at RKO until 1955, following which... MORE

Roy Webb (October 3, 1888 – December 10, 1982) was an American-born composer. Although a majority of his work was at RKO Pictures, where many of his scores were for films considered to be fairly light in content, he is better known today for the scores he composed for film noir and the horror genre, particularly those directed by Val Lewton. Webb was born in New York City, where he orchestrated and conducted for various Broadway shows. He relocated to Hollywood in the late 1920s to work under contract for Radio Pictures, later RKO Pictures. He remained at RKO until 1955, following which time he composed scores for several films at Warner Bros.. Webb is credited as a composer (or arranger) on more than 200 films. He received an 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). His piano concerto from The Enchanted Cottage was performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Constantin Bakalienikoff, in concert at the Hollywood Bowl in 1945. After a house fire in 1961 destroyed most of Webb's film scores LESS