Film Editor. He received recognition as an American film editor of the 20th century, along with being the past President and Board Chairman of Shelburne Museum, historian, art collector, and philanthropist. He was a descendant and heir of both "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt of the New York Central Railroad fortune and Henry Osborne Havemeyer, the creator and President of the American Sugar Refining Company. One of five children of J. Watson Webb, and Electra Havemeyer Webb, who founded 1947 the Shelburne Museum in Vermont, he was a 1938 graduate of Yale University. He started his film career in the cutting department at 20th Century Fox the same year. He was made chief film editor for Darryl F. Zanuck in 1944. From 1941 through 1952 he cut over thirty feature films including "With A Song In My Heart," "Cheaper By The Dozen," "Mother Wore Tights," Broken Arrow," "State Fair," "A Letter To Three Wives," and his favorite, "The Razor's Edge," which he considered his most important film, starring a professional colleague and personal friend, Tyrone Power. He was a charter member of American Cinema Editors (A.C.E.); becoming a Life Member in 1971. After his mother died in 1960, he followed his mother's vision, serving as President of the Shelburne Museum from that year through 1977, and as Chairman of the Board from 1978 through 1996. He inherited a vast amount of art from his parents. The Shelburne Museum specialized in a collection of Americana Folk Art. His Vermont residence, "The Brick House," is now part of Shelburne Museum. According to his "New York Times" obituary, he is credited with finishing the Shelburne Museum with some 80,000 objects housed in 37 historic buildings on 45 acres. He never married. His papers are archived at Yale University.