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)
- Riders from Nowhere ... (Producer)
- Land of the Six Guns ... (Producer)
- Covered Wagon Trails ... (Producer)
- Wild Horse Range ... (Producer)
- The Kid from Santa Fe ... (Producer)
1939
- Riders of the Sage ... (Director)
- Feud of the Range ... (Director)
- Mesquite Buckaroo ... (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
- Caryl of the Mountains ... (Associate Producer)
- Fast Bullets ... (Director)
- Roamin' Wild ... (Producer)
- The Speed Reporter ... (Story)
- Ridin' On ... (Associate Producer)
- Pinto Rustlers ... (Associate Producer)
- The Crime at Midnight ... (Associate Producer)
- Santa Fe Bound ... (Director)
- Step on It ... (Director)
1935
- The Laramie Kid ... (Director)
- The Cactus Kid ... (Director)
- Unconquered Bandit ... (Director)
- North of Arizona ... (Director)
- Texas Jack ... (Associate Producer)
- Wolf Riders ... (Associate Producer)
- Coyote Trails ... (Producer)
- Trigger Tom ... (Director)
- Tracy Rides ... (Director)
- Skull and Crown ... (Associate Producer)
- Never Too Late ... (Associate Producer)
- Loser's End ... (Story)
- Born to Battle ... (Director)
- The Live Wire ... (Director)
1934
- Ridin' Thru ... (Director)
- Mystery Ranch ... (Producer)
- Terror of the Plains ... (Director)
- Fighting Hero ... (Director)
1933
- Riot Squad ... (Director)
1931
- West of Cheyenne ... (Director)
- Hell's Valley ... (Co-Producer)
- The Mystery Trooper ... (Producer)
- Swanee River ... (Producer)
- The Sign of the Wolf ... (Director)
1930
- Bar-L Ranch ... (Director)
- Beyond the Rio Grande ... (Director)
- Westward Bound ... (Director)
- Phantom of the Desert ... (Director)
- Breed of the West ... (Producer)
- Ridin' Law ... (Director)
1929
- The Phantom of the North ... (Director)
- Dark Skies ... (Director)
1927
- The Isle of Sunken Gold ... (Director)
- Heroes of the Wild ... (Director)
- The Golden Stallion ... (Director)
1926
- The Man from Oklahoma ... (Director)
- The Thunderbolt Strikes ... (Director)
1925
- Border Vengeance ... (Director)
- Silent Sheldon ... (Director)
- The Knockout Kid ... (Producer)
- Starlight, the Untamed ... (Director)