Ira S. Webb
Ira S. Webb ( born May 12, 1899 in Scottdale, Pennsylvania, † December 9, 1971 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American film producer, director, art director and production designer, who in 1944 won the Academy Award for Best Production Design and two more times was nominated for the Oscar.
Life
Webb began his career in the film industry in Hollywood in 1935 as an art director, production manager, production designer and assistant director in films like Skull and Crown, Midnight Phantom, The Live Wire and Never Too Late. Later, he also worked as a film producer and screenwriter and worked throughout his career in the production of over eighty films.
At the Academy Awards in 1943, he was first nominated along with Alexander Golitzen, Jack Otterson and Russell A. Gausman for the Academy Award for Best Production Design, and indeed for the color film Arabian Nights (1942 ), one arising under the direction of John Rawlins adventure film starring Jon Hall, Sabu and Maria Montez in the lead roles.
In 1944, he won jointly with Golitzen, John B. Goodman and Gausman an Oscar in this category for the color film Phantom of the Opera (1943 ) based on the novel by Gaston Leroux, which was staged by director Arthur Lubin with Claude Rains, Susanna Foster and Nelson Eddy been.
Another nomination for the Academy Award for Best Production Design, he finally received in 1945 again with Goodman, Golitzen and Gausman for color film, The Climax (1944 ), a shot by George Waggner horror film with Boris Karloff, Susanna Foster and Turhan Bey in the lead roles.
Ira Webb was a younger brother of the producer, director and screenwriter Harry S. Webb and uncle of his sons, the assistant director and production manager Gordon A. Webb and Robert Melvin Webb.