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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, 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.
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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.
Mar 27, 2021 · Roy Webb was RKO's Music Director and chief composer during the heyday of that studio and he is best known today for his Val Lewton horror film scores as wel...
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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.
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Roy Webb (1888-1982) was a prolific and versatile composer for RKO Pictures, especially for film noir and horror films. He received six Oscar nominations and wrote the fight song for Columbia University.
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...
