Max Steiner

Personal Info

Know For

Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

1888-05-10 (83 years old)

Deathday

1971-12-28

Place of Birth

Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

Max Steiner

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Maximilian Raoul "Max" Steiner (May 10, 1888 – December 28, 1971) was an Austrian-born American composer of music for theatre and films. He was a child prodigy who conducted his first operetta when he was twelve and became a full-time professional, either composing, arranging or conducting, when he was fifteen. Steiner composed over 300 film scores with RKO and Warner Brothers, and was nominated for 24 Academy Awards, winning three: The Informer (1935), Now, Voyager (1942), and Since You Went Away (1944). Besides his Oscar-winning scores, some of Steiner's popular works include King Kong (1933), Little ...

Acting

2019

Max Steiner: Maestro of Movie Music

as Self (archive footage)

Production

1933

King Kong

as Original Music Composer

1943

Casablanca

as Original Music Composer

1940

Santa Fe Trail

as Original Music Composer

1939

Gone with the Wind

as Original Music Composer

1946

The Big Sleep

as Original Music Composer

1938

Jezebel

as Original Music Composer

1932

The Most Dangerous Game

as Original Music Composer

1954

The Caine Mutiny

as Original Music Composer

1956

The Searchers

as Original Music Composer

1945

Mildred Pierce

as Original Music Composer

1943

1940

City for Conquest

as Original Music Composer

1949

The Fountainhead

as Original Music Composer

1950

The Flame and the Arrow

as Original Music Composer

1931

The Gay Diplomat

as Music Director

1936

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

as Original Music Composer

1938

1938

Angels with Dirty Faces

as Original Music Composer

1939

Dark Victory

as Original Music Composer

1949

Beyond the Forest

as Original Music Composer

1950

Caged

as Original Music Composer

1948

The Woman in White

as Original Music Composer

1957

Band of Angels

as Original Music Composer

1956

Death of a Scoundrel

as Original Music Composer

1949

Without Honor

as Original Music Composer

1946

A Stolen Life

as Original Music Composer

1933

Christopher Strong

as Original Music Composer

1936

The Charge of the Light Brigade

as Original Music Composer

1934

Of Human Bondage

as Original Music Composer

1948

Johnny Belinda

as Original Music Composer

1946

Cloak and Dagger

as Original Music Composer

1949

White Heat

as Original Music Composer

1947

Deep Valley

as Original Music Composer

1955

Illegal

as Original Music Composer

1940

The Letter

as Original Music Composer

1938

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

as Original Music Composer

1933

After Tonight

as Music Director

1944

Passage to Marseille

as Original Music Composer

1950

The Glass Menagerie

as Original Music Composer

1941

1937

Kid Galahad

as Original Music Composer

1934

Bachelor Bait

as Music Director

1951

Lightning Strikes Twice

as Original Music Composer

1955

Hell on Frisco Bay

as Original Music Composer

1961

The Sins of Rachel Cade

as Original Music Composer

1942

The Gay Sisters

as Original Music Composer

1940

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

as Original Music Composer

1944

The Adventures of Mark Twain

as Original Music Composer

1933

Before Dawn

as Music Director

1964

Youngblood Hawke

as Original Music Composer

1948

My Girl Tisa

as Music

1931

Cimarron

as Original Music Composer

1930

Dixiana

as Original Music Composer

1932

Is My Face Red?

as Original Music Composer

1937

Submarine D-1

as Original Music Composer

1959

The FBI Story

as Original Music Composer

1932

Bird of Paradise

as Original Music Composer

1963

Spencer's Mountain

as Original Music Composer

1959

A Summer Place

as Original Music Composer

1959

John Paul Jones

as Original Music Composer

1959

The Hanging Tree

as Original Music Composer

1937

God's Country and the Woman

as Original Music Composer

1964

A Distant Trumpet

as Original Music Composer

1940

Virginia City

as Original Music Composer

1939

Four Wives

as Original Music Composer

1947

The Voice of the Turtle

as Original Music Composer

1945

The Corn Is Green

as Original Music Composer

1942

Captains of the Clouds

as Original Music Composer

1941

Sergeant York

as Original Music Composer

1949

Mrs. Mike

as Music

1942

Now, Voyager

as Original Music Composer

1941

Dive Bomber

as Original Music Composer

1960

Cash McCall

as Original Music Composer

1951

Raton Pass

as Music

1951

Come Fill the Cup

as Additional Music

1932

The Conquerors

as Original Music Composer

1939

Intermezzo: A Love Story

as Original Music Composer

1934

1931

Way Back Home

as Original Music Composer

1938

The Sisters

as Original Music Composer

1965

Two on a Guillotine

as Original Music Composer

1964

Those Calloways

as Original Music Composer

1945

San Antonio

as Original Music Composer

1939

The Old Maid

as Original Music Composer

1942

In This Our Life

as Original Music Composer

1940

All This, and Heaven Too

as Original Music Composer

1941

The Great Lie

as Original Music Composer

1943

Watch on the Rhine

as Original Music Composer

1948

Winter Meeting

as Original Music Composer

1932

What Price Hollywood?

as Original Music Composer

1937

First Lady

as Music

1932

The Lost Squadron

as Original Music Composer

1942

Busses Roar

as Music

1937

That Certain Woman

as Original Music Composer

1957

1932

The Animal Kingdom

as Original Music Composer

1931

Bachelor Apartment

as Original Music Composer

1931

Beau Ideal

as Original Music Composer

1931

Fanny Foley Herself

as Original Music Composer

1931

The Runaround

as Original Music Composer

1931

Consolation Marriage

as Original Music Composer

1929

The Delightful Rogue

as Original Music Composer

1931

The Public Defender

as Original Music Composer

1931

Peach-o-Reno

as Original Music Composer

1931

High Stakes

as Original Music Composer

1931

The Gay Diplomat

as Original Music Composer

1931

Kept Husbands

as Original Music Composer

1932

Girl of the Rio

as Original Music Composer

1931

Transgression

as Original Music Composer

1931

Are These Our Children?

as Original Music Composer

1931

Friends and Lovers

as Original Music Composer

1931

Secret Service

as Original Music Composer

1931

Cracked Nuts

as Original Music Composer

1932

Symphony of Six Million

as Original Music Composer

1932

State's Attorney

as Original Music Composer

1932

Thirteen Women

as Original Music Composer

1932

Roar of the Dragon

as Music Director

1933

Lucky Devils

as Original Music Composer

1933

The Monkey's Paw

as Original Music Composer

1933

The Cheyenne Kid

as Original Music Composer

1932

The Half-Naked Truth

as Original Music Composer

1933

Scarlet River

as Music Director

1947

Dark Passage

as Additional Music

1946

My Reputation

as Original Music Composer

1952

Mara Maru

as Original Music Composer

1948

Key Largo

as Original Music Composer

1956

Come Next Spring

as Original Music Composer

1949

Flamingo Road

as Original Music Composer

1951

Sugarfoot

as Original Music Composer

1961

Susan Slade

as Original Music Composer

1950

Dallas

as Original Music Composer

1941

The Bride Came C.O.D.

as Original Music Composer

1929

Side Street

as Original Music Composer

1944

Arsenic and Old Lace

as Original Music Composer

1951

Close to My Heart

as Original Music Composer

1948

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

as Original Music Composer

1934

The Fountain

as Original Music Composer

1934

Where Sinners Meet

as Music Director

1948

Silver River

as Original Music Composer

1941

Shining Victory

as Original Music Composer

1946

Tomorrow Is Forever

as Original Music Composer

1952

The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima

as Original Music Composer

1950

Rocky Mountain

as Original Music Composer

1947

Pursued

as Original Music Composer

1939

They Made Me a Criminal

as Original Music Composer

1948

The Decision of Christopher Blake

as Original Music Composer

1939

Dust Be My Destiny

as Original Music Composer

1934

Murder on the Blackboard

as Original Music Composer

1939

Dodge City

as Original Music Composer

1937

Slim

as Original Music Composer

1934

The Lost Patrol

as Original Music Composer

1935

She

as Original Music Composer

1934

Stingaree

as Original Music Composer

1937

Tovarich

as Original Music Composer

1937

A Star Is Born

as Original Music Composer

1936

The Garden of Allah

as Original Music Composer

1938

The Dawn Patrol

as Original Music Composer

1940

1940

1961

Portrait of a Mobster

as Original Music Composer

1952

This Woman Is Dangerous

as Additional Music

1956

Helen of Troy

as Original Music Composer

1937

Breakfast for Two

as Additional Music

1940

An Angel from Texas

as Additional Music

1942

Spy Ship

as Additional Music

1942

I Was Framed

as Additional Music

1939

The Oklahoma Kid

as Original Music Composer

1949

A Kiss in the Dark

as Original Music Composer

1929

Rio Rita

as Orchestrator

1960

Ice Palace

as Original Music Composer

1953

So Big

as Original Music Composer

1960

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

as Original Music Composer

1949

Mrs. Mike

as Original Music Composer

1947

The Beast with Five Fingers

as Original Music Composer

1957

Escapade in Japan

as Original Music Composer

1957

China Gate

as Original Music Composer

1955

The Last Command

as Original Music Composer

1955

The Violent Men

as Original Music Composer

1962

Rome Adventure

as Original Music Composer

1957

All Mine to Give

as Original Music Composer

1955

Battle Cry

as Original Music Composer

1954

The Boy from Oklahoma

as Original Music Composer

1958

Fort Dobbs

as Original Music Composer

1956

Bandido!

as Original Music Composer

1954

King Richard and the Crusaders

as Original Music Composer

1953

So This Is Love

as Original Music Composer

1958

Marjorie Morningstar

as Original Music Composer

1958

Darby's Rangers

as Original Music Composer

1955

The McConnell Story

as Original Music Composer

1953

The Jazz Singer

as Original Music Composer

1952

The Lion and the Horse

as Original Music Composer

1952

Room for One More

as Original Music Composer

1946

One More Tomorrow

as Original Music Composer

1944

The Conspirators

as Original Music Composer

1941

They Died with Their Boots On

as Original Music Composer

1951

Force of Arms

as Original Music Composer

1961

A Majority of One

as Original Music Composer

1949

The Lady Takes a Sailor

as Original Music Composer

1940

A Dispatch from Reuters

as Original Music Composer

1951

On Moonlight Bay

as Original Music Composer

1951

Operation Pacific

as Original Music Composer

1944

Since You Went Away

as Original Music Composer

1952

Springfield Rifle

as Original Music Composer

1951

Jim Thorpe – All-American

as Original Music Composer

1948

Fighter Squadron

as Original Music Composer

1947

Life with Father

as Original Music Composer

1945

Roughly Speaking

as Original Music Composer

1933

The Right To Romance

as Original Music Composer

1933

Melody Cruise

as Original Music Composer

1942

Desperate Journey

as Original Music Composer

1934

The Age of Innocence

as Original Music Composer

1947

Cheyenne

as Original Music Composer

1945

Saratoga Trunk

as Original Music Composer

1934

The Life of Vergie Winters

as Original Music Composer

1933

The Son of Kong

as Original Music Composer

1949

South of St. Louis

as Original Music Composer

1945

Rhapsody in Blue

as Original Music Composer

1943

Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain

as Original Music Composer

1953

Trouble Along the Way

as Original Music Composer

1947

The Unfaithful

as Original Music Composer

1951

Distant Drums

as Original Music Composer

1963

FBI Code 98

as Original Music Composer

1953

The Desert Song

as Original Music Composer

1948

April Showers

as Original Music Composer

1943

Mission to Moscow

as Original Music Composer

1935

The Informer

as Original Music Composer

1934

The Little Minister

as Original Music Composer

1933

Little Women

as Original Music Composer

1952

This Is Cinerama

as Original Music Composer

1950

The Breaking Point

as Original Music Composer

1953

The Charge at Feather River

as Original Music Composer

1952

The Iron Mistress

as Original Music Composer

1951

I Was a Communist for the FBI

as Original Music Composer

1982

The Letter

as Original Music Composer

1947

Love and Learn

as Original Music Composer

1933

Morning Glory

as Original Music Composer

1933

Sweepings

as Original Music Composer

1935

I Dream Too Much

as Original Music Composer

1935

The Three Musketeers

as Original Music Composer

1933

The Silver Cord

as Original Music Composer

1936

Little Lord Fauntleroy

as Original Music Composer

1933

Diplomaniacs

as Original Music Composer

1934

Wednesday's Child

as Music Director

1961

Parrish

as Original Music Composer

1933

Headline Shooter

as Music Director

1938

Crime School

as Original Music Composer

1929

The Bondman

as Music

1950

Backfire

as Additional Music

1937

The Life of Emile Zola

as Original Music Composer

1939

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

as Original Music Composer

1935

Alice Adams

as Original Music Composer

1933

The Past of Mary Holmes

as Music Director

1939

Each Dawn I Die

as Original Music Composer

1937

Green Light

as Original Music Composer

1942

Murder in the Big House

as Original Music Composer

1951

Storm Warning

as Additional Music

1935

Star of Midnight

as Music Director

1933

Cross Fire

as Sound

1938

Gold Is Where You Find It

as Original Music Composer

1931

Everything’s Rosie

as Music Director

1941

Nine Lives Are Not Enough

as Music Score Producer

1947

My Wild Irish Rose

as Original Music Composer

1931

The Royal Bed

as Music Director

1935

Break of Hearts

as Music Director

1934

Spitfire

as Music Director

1934

Two Alone

as Music Director

1944

Up in Arms

as Original Music Composer

1916

The Bondman

as Music

1932

A Bill of Divorcement

as Music Director

1933

Flying Down to Rio

as Music Director

1936

Follow the Fleet

as Music Director

1933

Blind Adventure

as Music Director

1934

This Man Is Mine

as Music Director

1933

Bed of Roses

as Music Director

1950

The Damned Don't Cry

as Additional Music

1934

Of Human Bondage

as Conductor

1936

Chatterbox

as Original Music Composer

1934

Finishing School

as Music Director

1932

The Penguin Pool Murder

as Music Director

1933

Chance at Heaven

as Music Director

1932

The Phantom of Crestwood

as Music Director

1932

A Bill of Divorcement

as Original Music Composer

1938

1939

1934

The Gay Divorcee

as Music Director

1935

Roberta

as Music Director

1932

Lady with a Past

as Music Director

1934

Anne of Green Gables

as Music Director

1935

Top Hat

as Music Director

1932

Westward Passage

as Music Director

1934

Their Big Moment

as Music Director

1932

What Price Hollywood?

as Music Director

1933

Bed of Roses

as Additional Music

1939

Invisible Stripes

as Additional Music

1938

White Banners

as Original Music Composer

1946

The Man I Love

as Additional Music

1934

Let's Try Again

as Music Director

1931

The Lady Refuses

as Music Director

1932

Carnival Boat

as Music Director

1933

Rafter Romance

as Music Director

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