William Axt

Personal Info

Know For

Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

1888-04-19 (71 years old)

Deathday

1959-02-13

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

William Axt

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William Axt (April 19, 1888 – February 13, 1959) was an American composer of nearly two hundred film scores. Born in New York City, Axt graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in The Bronx and studied at the National Conservatory of Music of America. He served as an assistant conductor for the Hammerstein Grand Opera Company and was the musical director for the Capitol Theatre in Manhattan before joining the music department at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1919. He earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Chicago in 1922.

Production

1934

Hide-Out

as Music

1932

Blondie of the Follies

as Original Music Composer

1925

1925

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

as Original Music Composer

1928

West of Zanzibar

as Original Music Composer

1933

Penthouse

as Original Music Composer

1928

Our Dancing Daughters

as Original Music Composer

1933

Midnight Mary

as Original Music Composer

1933

The Secret of Madame Blanche

as Original Music Composer

1939

1928

The Wind

as Music

1936

Three Godfathers

as Original Music Composer

1935

Woman Wanted

as Music

1930

1929

Navy Blues

as Music

1929

1932

1934

1936

Suzy

as Music

1937

Espionage

as Music

1929

The Pagan

as Music

1934

This Side of Heaven

as Original Music Composer

1936

1932

The Mask of Fu Manchu

as Original Music Composer

1933

1924

The Navigator

as Original Music Composer

1938

Fast Company

as Music

1934

Goofy Movies Number Two

as Original Music Composer

1933

Menu

as Original Music Composer

1928

The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg

as Original Music Composer

1933

Storm at Daybreak

as Original Music Composer

1933

Reunion in Vienna

as Original Music Composer

1934

Men in White

as Original Music Composer

1934

Operator 13

as Original Music Composer

1923

Scaramouche

as Original Music Composer

1926

Don Juan

as Original Music Composer

1926

La Bohème

as Original Music Composer

1928

Show People

as Original Music Composer

1930

Chasing Rainbows

as Original Music Composer

1939

Miracles for Sale

as Original Music Composer

1939

The Kid From Texas

as Original Music Composer

1936

Three Live Ghosts

as Original Music Composer

1936

Tough Guy

as Original Music Composer

1931

1936

Petticoat Fever

as Original Music Composer

1935

Whipsaw

as Original Music Composer

1936

The Garden Murder Case

as Original Music Composer

1935

Last of the Pagans

as Original Music Composer

1936

Libeled Lady

as Original Music Composer

1937

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

as Original Music Composer

1934

Straight Is the Way

as Original Music Composer

1924

Greed

as Original Music Composer

1937

Big City

as Original Music Composer

1936

1926

Bardelys the Magnificent

as Original Music Composer

1929

Speedway

as Original Music Composer

1935

It's in the Air

as Original Music Composer

1937

Beg, Borrow or Steal

as Original Music Composer

1919

1933

Gabriel Over the White House

as Original Music Composer

1935

The Murder Man

as Original Music Composer

1934

Stamboul Quest

as Original Music Composer

1935

Buried Loot

as Original Music Composer

1933

Bombshell

as Original Music Composer

1927

Camille

as Original Music Composer

1937

Between Two Women

as Original Music Composer

1937

Under Cover of Night

as Original Music Composer

1939

Sergeant Madden

as Original Music Composer

1939

Stand Up and Fight

as Original Music Composer

1929

1938

Listen, Darling

as Original Music Composer

1934

Death on the Diamond

as Original Music Composer

1938

Everybody Sing

as Original Music Composer

1937

Thoroughbreds Don't Cry

as Original Music Composer

1936

Old Shep

as Music

1934

A Wicked Woman

as Original Music Composer

1938

Rich Man, Poor Girl

as Original Music Composer

1938

The First Hundred Years

as Music Score Producer

1949

Adam's Rib

as Additional Music

1932

The Washington Masquerade

as Music Score Producer

1936

The Unguarded Hour

as Music Score Producer

1934

You Can't Buy Everything

as Original Music Composer

1938

Yellow Jack

as Original Music Composer

1940

Untamed

as Music

1934

The Girl from Missouri

as Original Music Composer

1934

The Thin Man

as Original Music Composer

1931

Mata Hari

as Music

1930

Romance

as Music

1931

1929

Untamed

as Music

1932

Faithless

as Original Music Composer

1929

Spite Marriage

as Additional Music

1929

The Unholy Night

as Original Music Composer

1931

1935

1932

Letty Lynton

as Original Music Composer

1934

Manhattan Melodrama

as Original Music Composer

1932

Sea Spiders

as Music

1930

1930

Doughboys

as Music

1928

While the City Sleeps

as Original Music Composer

1934

Forsaking All Others

as Original Music Composer

1933

Fast Workers

as Original Music Composer

1939

1928

1936

Mad Holiday

as Original Music Composer

1933

Today We Live

as Original Music Composer

1929

1937

Parnell

as Original Music Composer

1935

Rendezvous

as Original Music Composer

1938

Spring Madness

as Music Score Producer

1930

1934

Sadie McKee

as Original Music Composer

1933

Hold Your Man

as Additional Music

1933

Dinner at Eight

as Original Music Composer

1939

Fast and Loose

as Music Director

1931

Inspiration

as Original Music Composer

1932

The Wet Parade

as Original Music Composer

1928

The Viking

as Original Music Composer

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