Robert D. Webb

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Robert D. Webb (born January 8, 1903 in Kentucky , † April 18, 1990 in Orange County , California ) was an American assistant director and film director , who received the Oscar for best assistant director at the 1938 Academy Awards .

biography

Webb began as an assistant director in 1931 for the film Corsair and as such was involved in the creation of around 30 films in the course of his career until 1966. At the Academy Awards in 1938, he received the Oscar for best assistant director for his work in In Old Chicago (1937).

Other well-known films that he made with his assistance as assistant director were Signals to London (1936), Jesse James, Man Without a Law (1939), King of the Toreros (1941), The Captain of Castile (1947), The Hero of Mindanao ( 1950), Frogmen (1951), David and Bathsheba (1951), Rommel, the desert fox (1951), The Fire Jumpers of Montana (1951), The Commodore (1963) and Michelangelo - Inferno and Ecstasy (1965). He worked with the directors Henry King , Rouben Mamoulian , Fritz Lang , Lloyd Bacon , Henry Hathaway , Joseph M. Newman , Delbert Mann and Carol Reed .

After the Second World War he worked as a director himself and made almost twenty other films and episodes of television series such as Cowboys , Temple Houston and Daniel Boone after The Caribbean Mystery (1945) . His best-known works as a director were The Hell's Reef (1953), The White Feather (1955), Gunpowder Steam and Hot Songs (1956), The Fearless (1956), The Pirates of Tortuga (1961) and The Cape Town Affair (1967).

He was nominated for the Grand Festival Prize at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1954 for The Hell's Reef .

Filmography (selection)

As a director

  • 1953: The Höllenriff (Beneath the 12-Mile Reef)
  • 1955: The White Feather
  • 1955: Seven Cities of Gold
  • 1956: Testpiloten (On the Threshold of Space)
  • 1956: The Proud Ones
  • 1956: Gunpowder Steam and Hot Songs (Love Me Tender)
  • 1957: The Way to the Gold
  • 1960: He came, saw and won (Guns of the Timberland)
  • 1961: Pirates of Tortuga (Pirates of Tortuga)
  • 1961: Seven Women from Hell

As a producer

  • 1952: Lure of the Wilderness
  • 1955: Seven Cities of Gold
  • 1967: The Cape Town Affair
  • 1967: The Jackals

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Portrait of Robert D. Webb in: The New York Times
personal data
SURNAME Webb, Robert D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American assistant director and film director
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Kentucky
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1990
Place of death Orange County , California