---
name: "Paul Webb"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/paul-webb"
fi1m_id: "paul-webb"
imdb_id: "nm2298096"
tmdb_id: 194586
wikidata_id: "Q18818521"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "16 January 1962"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:53:10.413270+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Paul Webb

## Identity

Paul Webb

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/paul-webb
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** paul-webb
- **IMDb ID:** nm2298096
- **TMDB ID:** 194586
- **Wikidata ID:** Q18818521
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18818521, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2298096/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/194586

Writer. Born 16 January 1962.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 16 January 1962
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18818521, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2298096/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/194586

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Selma*](https://film.one/film/selma.md) (84)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Paul Webb is a British screenwriter and playwright. He is known for writing the screenplay for the 2014 film *Selma*.

Webb previously worked as a teacher in Reading, Berkshire, and as a consultant in the petrochemical industry before turning to writing in his fifties. He wrote the play *Four Knights in Knaresborough*, staged in London in 1999.

Webb also contributed to the 2017 BET miniseries *Madiba*. For *Selma*, he received the Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Screenplay and a nomination for the Satellite Award for Best Original Screenplay.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, bbc.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Selma* (2014), Fi1m 84, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/selma.md)

## Complete filmography (3)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Selma* (2014), Writer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/selma.md)
- *Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man -  Paleo 2003* (2003), as Rustin Man
- *Talk Talk - ZDF Rock Pop in Concert* (1984), as Bass

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/paul-webb