Paul Francis Webster


Birthday: December 20, 2007

This brilliant and prolific lyricist led an interesting life before becoming a renown writer of song texts for films and recording artists. Educated at N.Y.U. and Cornell before 1935, he made his living as a seaman onboard a freighter trading between the States and China, and at another extreme he was employed as a dance instructor at the Arthur Murray Dance Studios. Moving to Hollywood, he was ...more
  • 1976
  • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
  • Best Song
  • Half a House
  • nom
  • 1972
  • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
  • Best Song
  • The Stepmother
  • nom
  • 1965
  • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
  • Best Song
  • The Sandpiper
  • win
  • 1965
  • Hollywood Foreign Press Association
  • Best Original Song
  • The Sandpiper
  • nom


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