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)
- Covered Wagon Trails ... (Producer)
- The Kid from Santa Fe ... (Producer)
- Land of the Six Guns ... (Producer)
- Riders from Nowhere ... (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
- It's All in Your Mind ... (Producer)
- The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok ... (Producer)
1936
- The Speed Reporter ... (Story)
- Santa Fe Bound ... (Director)
- Caryl of the Mountains ... (Associate Producer)
- Ridin' On ... (Associate Producer)
- Fast Bullets ... (Director)
- Roamin' Wild ... (Producer)
- Step on It ... (Director)
- Pinto Rustlers ... (Associate Producer)
- The Crime at Midnight ... (Associate Producer)
1935
- The Live Wire ... (Director)
- Skull and Crown ... (Associate Producer)
- The Laramie Kid ... (Director)
- Coyote Trails ... (Producer)
- Unconquered Bandit ... (Director)
- Never Too Late ... (Associate Producer)
- North of Arizona ... (Director)
- The Cactus Kid ... (Director)
- Loser's End ... (Story)
- Born to Battle ... (Director)
- Tracy Rides ... (Director)
- Texas Jack ... (Associate Producer)
- Wolf Riders ... (Associate Producer)
- Trigger Tom ... (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)
- West of Cheyenne ... (Director)
- Swanee River ... (Producer)
- Hell's Valley ... (Co-Producer)
- The Mystery Trooper ... (Producer)
1930
- Beyond the Rio Grande ... (Director)
- Phantom of the Desert ... (Director)
- Ridin' Law ... (Director)
- Westward Bound ... (Director)
- Bar-L Ranch ... (Director)
- Breed of the West ... (Producer)
1929
- Dark Skies ... (Director)
- The Phantom of the North ... (Director)
1927
- Heroes of the Wild ... (Director)
- The Isle of Sunken Gold ... (Director)
- The Golden Stallion ... (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)