Roy Webb

 

[1888 - 1982] American composer and one of the greats of the American Golden Age. If his name never had greater market exposure was due to natural projection "biggest stars" of the period as Max Steiner, Alfred Newman and Franz Waxman.

 

Classically trained, but with work focused on popular music, Webb wrote for various musical shows and worked among the likes of Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart and Busby Berkeley. In 1929 was invited to join the starting RKO studios. After composing for great productions as The Last Days of Pompeii (1935) stabilized at RKO studios where he specialized in soundtrack for films noir as Crossfire (1947), Journey Into Fear (1942) Murder My Sweet (1945) and Notorious (1946) always accentuating the tragic-romantic aspects of these movies. Webb was quite striking in his horror fantasies as Val Lewton´s Cat People (1942), The Seventh Victim (1943), Bedlam (1946) and The Body Snatcher (1946 ). In following years accept only occasional commissions as the music to Marty (1955) award-winning drama that would detach actor Ernest Bornigne.