Clifton Webb, de son vrai nom Webb Parmalee Hollenbeck, est un acteur américain né à Indianapolis le 11 novembre 1889 et décédé d'une crise cardiaque le 13 octobre 1966 à Beverly Hills. Interprète d'une parfaite élégance, il s'illustra souvent dans des rôles de gentleman détaché, avec une ironie et une finesse qui furent sa marque de fabrique.

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Webb never married and had no children. He lived with his mother until her death at age 91 in 1960, leading Noël Coward to remark, apropos Webb's grieving, "It must be terrible to be orphaned at 71."

Actor Robert Wagner, who co-starred with Webb in the films Stars and Stripes Forever and Titanic and considered the actor one of his mentors, stated in his memoirs, Pieces of My Heart: A Life, that "Clifton Webb was gay, of course, but he never made a pass at me, not that he would have."

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