Career
Educated at Bramcote School, Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire and Registered Nurse Colleges Osborne and Dartmouth. He served in the Royal Navy. Webb"s early days were spent performing with the Lena Ashwell Players (1924-1926), J.B. Fagan"s Oxford Players (1926-1928), the Croydon Repertory Company (1932-1933) and the Old Vic-Sadler"s Wells Company (1934-1935).
In 1936 he starred in Noël Coward"s Tonight at 8:30 and directed Coward"s Peace In Our Time in 1947.
In 1960 he appeared in the role of "Dudard" in Eugène Ionesco"s Rhinoceros, directed by Orson Welles and co-starring Laurence Olivier, at the Royal Court Theatre. He made his film debut in, and went onto appear in such films as.
,,, Entertaining Mr. Sloane (1970), and He appeared several times on the British Broadcasting Corporation Play of the Month, Hallmark Hall of Fame and Play for Today, as well as popular television series Z-Cars, The Protectors, and Public Eye.
In 1963, he was offered the role of the First Doctor in the British Broadcasting Corporation"s new science fiction series Doctor Who but declined.