Richard Webb


Actor

About

Also Known As
John Richard Webb
Birth Place
Bloomington, Illinois, USA
Born
September 09, 1915
Died
June 19, 1993
Cause of Death
Suicide

Biography

Richard Webb was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Webb's earliest roles were in film, including "I Wanted Wings" (1941) with Ray Milland, "American Empire" (1942) and the dramatic adventure "Sullivan's Travels" (1942) with Joel McCrea. He also appeared in the spy picture "O.S.S." (1946) with Alan Ladd, the musical "Variety Girl" (1947) with Mary Hatcher and the suspen...

Biography

Richard Webb was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Webb's earliest roles were in film, including "I Wanted Wings" (1941) with Ray Milland, "American Empire" (1942) and the dramatic adventure "Sullivan's Travels" (1942) with Joel McCrea. He also appeared in the spy picture "O.S.S." (1946) with Alan Ladd, the musical "Variety Girl" (1947) with Mary Hatcher and the suspenseful adaptation "Out of the Past" (1947) with Robert Mitchum. He continued to act in productions like the Frank Lovejoy spy thriller "I Was a Communist For the FBI" (1951), the Janice Rule musical "Starlift" (1951) and the Gary Cooper adventure "Distant Drums" (1951). He also appeared in "This Woman Is Dangerous" (1952) with Joan Crawford. In the latter part of his career, he tackled roles in "Town Tamer" (1965), "Hell Raiders" (1968) and "The Gay Deceivers" (1969). He also appeared in the sci-fi motion picture "Beware the Blob" (1972) with Godfrey Cambridge and "The West Is Still Wild" (1975). Webb was most recently credited in the Harrison Ford box office smash action film "Air Force One" (1997). Webb was nominated for an Outstanding Sound Editing For a Series Primetime Emmy Award for "Strange Luck" in 1996. Webb passed away in June 1993 at the age of 78.

Filmography

 

Cast (Feature Film)

Time Travelers (1976)
The West Is Still Wild (1975)
Beware! the Blob (1972)
Sheriff Jones
The Gay Deceivers (1969)
Mr. Devlin
Hillbillys in a Haunted House (1967)
The Cat (1966)
Sheriff Vern
Git! (1965)
Andrew Garrett
Town Tamer (1965)
Kevin
Attack of the Mayan Mummy (1963)
The Phantom Stagecoach (1957)
Tom Bradley
Artists and Models (1956)
Secret Service Agent Peters
Count Three and Pray (1955)
Big
Prince Valiant (1954)
Sir Galahad
Three Hours to Kill (1954)
Carter Mastin
The Black Dakotas (1954)
Frank Gibbs
Jubilee Trail (1954)
Capt. Brown
A Star Is Born (1954)
Wallace
The Nebraskan (1953)
Ace Eliot
This Woman Is Dangerous (1952)
Franklin
Carson City (1952)
Alan Kincaid
Mara Maru (1952)
Distant Drums (1951)
Lt. Richard Tufts
I Was a Communist for the F.B.I. (1951)
Ken Crowley
Starlift (1951)
Col. Callan
The Invisible Monster (1950)
My Own True Love (1949)
A corporal
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949)
Sir Galahad
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
Pfc. Dan Shipley
Bride of Vengeance (1949)
Prisoner
The Big Clock (1948)
Nat Sperling
Isn't It Romantic (1948)
Benjamin Logan
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)
Peter Vinson
Variety Girl (1947)
Out of the Past (1947)
Jim
O.S.S. (1946)
Parker
This Gun for Hire (1942)
Young man
The Lady Has Plans (1942)
Information clerk at hotel
Sullivan's Travels (1942)
Radio man
The Remarkable Andrew (1942)
Randall Stevens
American Empire (1942)
Crane
Night in New Orleans (1942)
Photographer
Pacific Blackout (1941)
Interne
West Point Widow (1941)
Intern
I Wanted Wings (1941)
Cadet captain
Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
Actor
Among the Living (1941)
Hotel clerk

Visual Effects (Feature Film)

Air Force One (1997)
Mechanical Special Effects
Poor Devil (1973)
Special Effects

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Animal handler

Cast (Special)

The Republic Pictures Story (1991)
The Adventure of the Clapham Cook (1990)
Mr Cameron
Anything For Money (1957)
Madden (Guest)

Cast (Short)

We Learn About the Telephone (1965)

Life Events

Bibliography