Max Steiner

Max Steiner

  • Birthday: 1888-05-10
  • Deathday: 1971-12-28
  • Place of birth: Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
  • Also know as: Maximilian Raoul Walter 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 Women (1933), Jezebel (1938), Casablanca (1942), The Searchers (1956), A Summer Place (1959), and the film score for which he is possibly best known, Gone with the Wind (1939). He was also the first recipient of the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, which he won for his score to Life with Father. Steiner was a frequent collaborator with some of the most famous film directors in history, including Michael Curtiz, John Ford, Howard Hawks, William Dieterle, William Wyler, Raoul Walsh, John Huston, Irving Pichel, King Vidor, and Frank Capra.

Filmography

Max Steiner: Maestro of Movie Music

2019

As Self (archive footage)

Production

Dark Passage

1947

As Additional Music

This Woman Is Dangerous

1952

As Additional Music

Breakfast for Two

1937

As Additional Music

An Angel from Texas

1940

As Additional Music

Spy Ship

1942

As Additional Music

I Was Framed

1942

As Additional Music

Come Fill the Cup

1951

As Additional Music

Storm Warning

1951

As Additional Music

King Kong

1933

As Original Music Composer

Casablanca

1943

As Original Music Composer

Gone with the Wind

1939

As Original Music Composer

The Big Sleep

1946

As Original Music Composer

Santa Fe Trail

1940

As Original Music Composer

Jezebel

1938

As Original Music Composer

The Most Dangerous Game

1932

As Original Music Composer

The Caine Mutiny

1954

As Original Music Composer

The Searchers

1956

As Original Music Composer

Mildred Pierce

1945

As Original Music Composer

City for Conquest

1940

As Original Music Composer

The Fountainhead

1949

As Original Music Composer

The Flame and the Arrow

1950

As Original Music Composer

Dark Victory

1939

As Original Music Composer

Angels with Dirty Faces

1938

As Original Music Composer

Beyond the Forest

1949

As Original Music Composer

Caged

1950

As Original Music Composer

The Woman in White

1948

As Original Music Composer

Band of Angels

1957

As Original Music Composer

Without Honor

1949

As Original Music Composer

A Stolen Life

1946

As Original Music Composer

Christopher Strong

1933

As Original Music Composer

The Charge of the Light Brigade

1936

As Original Music Composer

Of Human Bondage

1934

As Original Music Composer

Johnny Belinda

1948

As Original Music Composer

Cloak and Dagger

1946

As Original Music Composer

White Heat

1949

As Original Music Composer

Death of a Scoundrel

1956

As Original Music Composer

Deep Valley

1947

As Original Music Composer

Illegal

1955

As Original Music Composer

The Letter

1940

As Original Music Composer

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

1938

As Original Music Composer

Passage to Marseille

1944

As Original Music Composer

The Glass Menagerie

1950

As Original Music Composer

Kid Galahad

1937

As Original Music Composer

Lightning Strikes Twice

1951

As Original Music Composer

Hell on Frisco Bay

1955

As Original Music Composer

The Sins of Rachel Cade

1961

As Original Music Composer

The Gay Sisters

1942

As Original Music Composer

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

1940

As Original Music Composer

The Adventures of Mark Twain

1944

As Original Music Composer

Youngblood Hawke

1964

As Original Music Composer

Roar of the Dragon

1932

As Music Director

Scarlet River

1933

As Music Director

Cimarron

1931

As Original Music Composer

Dixiana

1930

As Original Music Composer

Is My Face Red?

1932

As Original Music Composer

God's Country and the Woman

1937

As Original Music Composer

A Distant Trumpet

1964

As Original Music Composer

The FBI Story

1959

As Original Music Composer

Submarine D-1

1937

As Original Music Composer

Spencer's Mountain

1963

As Original Music Composer

John Paul Jones

1959

As Original Music Composer

A Summer Place

1959

As Original Music Composer

Bird of Paradise

1932

As Original Music Composer

The Hanging Tree

1959

As Original Music Composer

Virginia City

1940

As Original Music Composer

Four Wives

1939

As Original Music Composer

Sergeant York

1941

As Original Music Composer

The Voice of the Turtle

1947

As Original Music Composer

Captains of the Clouds

1942

As Original Music Composer

The Corn Is Green

1945

As Original Music Composer

Now, Voyager

1942

As Original Music Composer

Dive Bomber

1941

As Original Music Composer

Cash McCall

1960

As Original Music Composer

Star of Midnight

1935

As Original Music Composer

State's Attorney

1932

As Original Music Composer

Where Sinners Meet

1934

As Music Director

They Made Me a Criminal

1939

As Original Music Composer

The Conquerors

1932

As Original Music Composer

Way Back Home

1931

As Original Music Composer

The Sisters

1938

As Original Music Composer

Winter Meeting

1948

As Original Music Composer

The Old Maid

1939

As Original Music Composer

San Antonio

1945

As Original Music Composer

Watch on the Rhine

1943

As Original Music Composer

Those Calloways

1965

As Original Music Composer

The Great Lie

1941

As Original Music Composer

In This Our Life

1942

As Original Music Composer

Two on a Guillotine

1965

As Original Music Composer

All This, and Heaven Too

1940

As Original Music Composer

What Price Hollywood?

1932

As Original Music Composer

The Lost Squadron

1932

As Original Music Composer

That Certain Woman

1937

As Original Music Composer

The Animal Kingdom

1932

As Original Music Composer

Secret Service

1931

As Original Music Composer

Kept Husbands

1931

As Original Music Composer

The Public Defender

1931

As Original Music Composer

The Gay Diplomat

1931

As Original Music Composer

Fanny Foley Herself

1931

As Original Music Composer

Peach-o-Reno

1931

As Original Music Composer

Girl of the Rio

1932

As Original Music Composer

Beau Ideal

1931

As Original Music Composer

Friends and Lovers

1931

As Original Music Composer

Cracked Nuts

1931

As Original Music Composer

Consolation Marriage

1931

As Original Music Composer

Symphony of Six Million

1932

As Original Music Composer

Bachelor Apartment

1931

As Original Music Composer

The Delightful Rogue

1929

As Original Music Composer

High Stakes

1931

As Original Music Composer

Transgression

1931

As Original Music Composer

The Runaround

1931

As Original Music Composer

Are These Our Children?

1931

As Original Music Composer

The Monkey's Paw

1933

As Original Music Composer

Lucky Devils

1933

As Original Music Composer

The Half-Naked Truth

1932

As Original Music Composer

The Cheyenne Kid

1933

As Original Music Composer

Thirteen Women

1932

As Original Music Composer

My Reputation

1946

As Original Music Composer

Close to My Heart

1951

As Original Music Composer

Flamingo Road

1949

As Original Music Composer

Stingaree

1934

As Original Music Composer

Tomorrow Is Forever

1946

As Original Music Composer

Side Street

1929

As Original Music Composer

Sugarfoot

1951

As Original Music Composer

Shining Victory

1941

As Original Music Composer

Arsenic and Old Lace

1944

As Original Music Composer

Come Next Spring

1956

As Original Music Composer

Mara Maru

1952

As Original Music Composer

The Bride Came C.O.D.

1941

As Original Music Composer

Tovarich

1937

As Original Music Composer

Dodge City

1939

As Original Music Composer

Key Largo

1948

As Original Music Composer

Silver River

1948

As Original Music Composer

Dallas

1950

As Original Music Composer

Pursued

1947

As Original Music Composer

A Star Is Born

1937

As Original Music Composer

Susan Slade

1961

As Original Music Composer

Dust Be My Destiny

1939

As Original Music Composer

Murder on the Blackboard

1934

As Original Music Composer

The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima

1952

As Original Music Composer

Rocky Mountain

1950

As Original Music Composer

The Decision of Christopher Blake

1948

As Original Music Composer

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

1948

As Original Music Composer

She

1935

As Original Music Composer

Slim

1937

As Original Music Composer

The Fountain

1934

As Original Music Composer

The Lost Patrol

1934

As Original Music Composer

The Dawn Patrol

1938

As Original Music Composer

The Garden of Allah

1936

As Original Music Composer

It All Came True

1940

As Music

Helen of Troy

1956

As Original Music Composer

Murder in the Air

1940

As Music

Portrait of a Mobster

1961

As Original Music Composer

The Oklahoma Kid

1939

As Original Music Composer

A Kiss in the Dark

1949

As Original Music Composer

Wednesday's Child

1934

As Music Director

Parrish

1961

As Original Music Composer

Ice Palace

1960

As Original Music Composer

Room for One More

1952

As Original Music Composer

Rhapsody in Blue

1945

As Original Music Composer

The Right To Romance

1933

As Original Music Composer

So This Is Love

1953

As Original Music Composer

The Iron Mistress

1952

As Original Music Composer

Mrs. Mike

1949

As Original Music Composer

Up in Arms

1944

As Original Music Composer

Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain

1943

As Original Music Composer

Sweepings

1933

As Original Music Composer

Battle Cry

1955

As Original Music Composer

King Richard and the Crusaders

1954

As Original Music Composer

Operation Pacific

1951

As Original Music Composer

They Died with Their Boots On

1941

As Original Music Composer

I Dream Too Much

1935

As Original Music Composer

The Age of Innocence

1934

As Original Music Composer

The Silver Cord

1933

As Original Music Composer

Trouble Along the Way

1953

As Original Music Composer

Love and Learn

1947

As Original Music Composer

The Life of Vergie Winters

1934

As Original Music Composer

FBI Code 98

1963

As Original Music Composer

Morning Glory

1933

As Original Music Composer

Escapade in Japan

1957

As Original Music Composer

Bandit!

1956

As Original Music Composer

Jim Thorpe – All-American

1951

As Original Music Composer

A Majority of One

1961

As Original Music Composer

The Lady Takes a Sailor

1949

As Original Music Composer

One More Tomorrow

1946

As Original Music Composer

Diplomaniacs

1933

As Original Music Composer

So Big

1953

As Original Music Composer

Follow the Fleet

1936

As Original Music Composer

Marjorie Morningstar

1958

As Original Music Composer

The Jazz Singer

1953

As Original Music Composer

This Is Cinerama

1952

As Original Music Composer

On Moonlight Bay

1951

As Original Music Composer

The Letter

1982

As Original Music Composer

Little Lord Fauntleroy

1936

As Original Music Composer

The Little Minister

1934

As Original Music Composer

Darby's Rangers

1958

As Original Music Composer

The Charge at Feather River

1953

As Original Music Composer

Distant Drums

1951

As Original Music Composer

I Was a Communist for the FBI

1951

As Original Music Composer

April Showers

1948

As Original Music Composer

The Unfaithful

1947

As Original Music Composer

Saratoga Trunk

1945

As Original Music Composer

Mission to Moscow

1943

As Original Music Composer

A Dispatch from Reuters

1940

As Original Music Composer

The Three Musketeers

1935

As Original Music Composer

China Gate

1957

As Original Music Composer

The Boy from Oklahoma

1954

As Original Music Composer

The Breaking Point

1950

As Original Music Composer

Rome Adventure

1962

As Original Music Composer

Cheyenne

1947

As Original Music Composer

The Conspirators

1944

As Original Music Composer

Since You Went Away

1944

As Original Music Composer

Fort Dobbs

1958

As Original Music Composer

The Desert Song

1953

As Original Music Composer

Springfield Rifle

1952

As Original Music Composer

Force of Arms

1951

As Original Music Composer

The Son of Kong

1933

As Original Music Composer

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

1960

As Original Music Composer

The Lion and the Horse

1952

As Original Music Composer

Melody Cruise

1933

As Original Music Composer

The Violent Men

1955

As Original Music Composer

Roughly Speaking

1945

As Original Music Composer

The McConnell Story

1955

As Original Music Composer

The Last Command

1955

As Original Music Composer

Life with Father

1947

As Original Music Composer

The Beast with Five Fingers

1947

As Original Music Composer

All Mine to Give

1957

As Original Music Composer

South of St. Louis

1949

As Original Music Composer

Fighter Squadron

1948

As Original Music Composer

Desperate Journey

1942

As Original Music Composer

The Informer

1935

As Original Music Composer

Little Women

1933

As Original Music Composer

The Bondman

1929

As Music

The Past of Mary Holmes

1933

As Music Director

Green Light

1937

As Original Music Composer

Each Dawn I Die

1939

As Original Music Composer

Gold Is Where You Find It

1938

As Original Music Composer

Cross Fire

1933

As Sound

Everything’s Rosie

1931

As Music Director

Nine Lives Are Not Enough

1941

As Music Score Producer

Young Donovan's Kid

1931

As Music

The Royal Bed

1931

As Music Director

Break of Hearts

1935

As Music Director

Top Hat

1935

As Music

Two Alone

1934

As Music Director

The Bondman

1916

As Music

A Bill of Divorcement

1932

As Music Director

Spitfire

1934

As Music Director

Young Man with a Horn

1950

As Music

Blind Adventure

1933

As Music Director

This Man Is Mine

1934

As Music Director

Bed of Roses

1933

As Music Director

Of Human Bondage

1934

As Conductor

Chatterbox

1936

As Original Music Composer

Finishing School

1934

As Music Director

Penguin Pool Murder

1932

As Music Director

Chance at Heaven

1933

As Music Director

The Phantom of Crestwood

1932

As Music Director

A Bill of Divorcement

1932

As Original Music Composer

Four Daughters

1938

As Music

Daughters Courageous

1939

As Music

The Mad Empress

1939

As Music

The Gay Divorcee

1934

As Music Director

Alice Adams

1935

As Music

Roberta

1935

As Music Director

Anne of Green Gables

1934

As Music Director

Top Hat

1935

As Music Director

Lady with a Past

1932

As Music Director

Their Big Moment

1934

As Music Director

Westward Passage

1932

As Music Director

The Gay Diplomat

1931

As Music Director

After Tonight

1933

As Music Director

One Foot in Heaven

1941

As Music

Bachelor Bait

1934

As Music Director

Before Dawn

1933

As Music Director

Crime School

1938

As Music

My Girl Tisa

1948

As Music

Mrs. Mike

1949

As Music

The Crime Doctor

1934

As Music

First Lady

1937

As Music

Busses Roar

1942

As Music

The Giant Claw

1957

As Music

Northern Pursuit

1943

As Music

Condemned Women

1938

As Music

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

1936

As Original Music Composer

Raton Pass

1951

As Music

Intermezzo: A Love Story

1939

As Original Music Composer

Rio Rita

1929

As Orchestrator

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