Harry S. Webb

Birthday: 1892-10-15
Deathday: 1959-07-04
Birthplace: Pennsylvania, USA
Gender: Male

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

Credits

Year Title
1940-01-25 Pioneer Days
1939-11-01 The Pal from Texas
1939-08-21 Port of Hate
1939-08-01 Riders of the Sage
1939-04-30 Mesquite Buckaroo
1939-01-15 Feud of the Range
1936-08-14 Santa Fe Bound
1936-05-14 Pinto Rustlers
1936-01-01 Fast Bullets
1936-01-01 Step on It
1935-12-14 Trigger Tom
1935-11-01 The Live Wire
1935-06-01 The Laramie Kid
1935-04-01 Born to Battle
1935-02-26 Tracy Rides
1935-02-02 North of Arizona
1935-02-02 Wolf Riders
1935-01-04 The Cactus Kid
1934-11-22 Terror of the Plains
1934-03-15 Ridin' Thru
1933-07-25 Riot Squad
1931-05-01 The Sign of the Wolf
1931-03-01 West of Cheyenne
1930-12-01 Westward Bound
1930-11-01 Phantom of the Desert
1930-08-04 Bar-L Ranch
1930-05-24 Ridin' Law
1930-04-12 Beyond the Rio Grande
1929-05-27 The Phantom of the North
1927-11-01 Heroes of the Wild
1927-08-31 The Isle of Sunken Gold
1927-01-15 The Golden Stallion
1926-12-01 The Man from Oklahoma
1926-01-29 The Thunderbolt Strikes
1925-10-07 Silent Sheldon
1925-08-12 Border Vengeance