Harry S. Webb
Born: 1892-10-15 in Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 1959-07-04
Known For: Directing
Biography
Harry S. Webb (October 15, 1892 – July 4, 1959) was an American film producer, director and screenwriter. He produced 100 films between 1924 and 1940. He also directed 55 films between 1924 and 1940. He was the brother of "B"-film producer and director Ira S. Webb and the husband of screenwriter Rose Gordon, who wrote many of his films. In 1933 Webb and Bernard B. Ray created Reliable Pictures Corporation with a studio at Beachwood and Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Reliable produced and released many Westerns, starting with Girl Trouble (1933), until the company closed in 1937. Its final release was The Silver Trail.[1] Webb and Ray then started Metropolitan Pictures Corporation in 1938, which produced and released several films until 1940, its last being Pinto Canyon.[1] Webb then produced Westerns for Monogram Pictures. He was born in Pennsylvania and died in Hollywood, from a heart attack
Filmography
1957
- The Parson and the Outlaw ... (Assistant Director)
1940
- Pioneer Days ... (Director)
- Wild Horse Range ... (Producer)
- Land of the Six Guns ... (Producer)
- The Kid from Santa Fe ... (Producer)
- Riders from Nowhere ... (Producer)
- Covered Wagon Trails ... (Producer)
1939
- Mesquite Buckaroo ... (Director)
- Feud of the Range ... (Director)
- Riders of the Sage ... (Director)
- Port of Hate ... (Director)
- The Pal from Texas ... (Director)
1938
- The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok ... (Producer)
- It's All in Your Mind ... (Producer)
1936
- Santa Fe Bound ... (Director)
- Roamin' Wild ... (Producer)
- The Speed Reporter ... (Story)
- Ridin' On ... (Associate Producer)
- Caryl of the Mountains ... (Associate Producer)
- Fast Bullets ... (Director)
- Step on It ... (Director)
- Pinto Rustlers ... (Associate Producer)
- The Crime at Midnight ... (Associate Producer)
1935
- The Cactus Kid ... (Director)
- North of Arizona ... (Director)
- The Live Wire ... (Director)
- Skull and Crown ... (Associate Producer)
- Never Too Late ... (Associate Producer)
- Wolf Riders ... (Associate Producer)
- Born to Battle ... (Director)
- The Laramie Kid ... (Director)
- Unconquered Bandit ... (Director)
- Coyote Trails ... (Producer)
- Texas Jack ... (Associate Producer)
- Trigger Tom ... (Director)
- Loser's End ... (Story)
- Tracy Rides ... (Director)
1934
- Fighting Hero ... (Director)
- Ridin' Thru ... (Director)
- Terror of the Plains ... (Director)
- Mystery Ranch ... (Producer)
1933
- Riot Squad ... (Director)
1931
- The Sign of the Wolf ... (Director)
- Swanee River ... (Producer)
- West of Cheyenne ... (Director)
- Hell's Valley ... (Co-Producer)
- The Mystery Trooper ... (Producer)
1930
- Ridin' Law ... (Director)
- Phantom of the Desert ... (Director)
- Beyond the Rio Grande ... (Director)
- Westward Bound ... (Director)
- Bar-L Ranch ... (Director)
- Breed of the West ... (Producer)
1929
- Dark Skies ... (Director)
- The Phantom of the North ... (Director)
1927
- The Golden Stallion ... (Director)
- Heroes of the Wild ... (Director)
- The Isle of Sunken Gold ... (Director)
1926
- The Thunderbolt Strikes ... (Director)
- The Man from Oklahoma ... (Director)
1925
- Border Vengeance ... (Director)
- The Knockout Kid ... (Producer)
- Starlight, the Untamed ... (Director)
- Silent Sheldon ... (Director)