Sound
Max Steiner
EN, XX cinema · 311 credits
Born
10 May 1888
Died
28 December 1971 (aged 83)
Birthplace
Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
Also known as Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner · Maximilian Raoul Steiner · Max R. Steiner
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.
Known for
Filmography
Max Steiner: Maestro of Movie Music
as Self (archive footage)
Two on a Guillotine
Original Music Composer
Youngblood Hawke
Original Music Composer
A Distant Trumpet
Original Music Composer
Those Calloways
Original Music Composer
Spencer's Mountain
Original Music Composer
FBI Code 98
Original Music Composer
Rome Adventure
Original Music Composer
The Sins of Rachel Cade
Original Music Composer
Susan Slade
Original Music Composer
Portrait of a Mobster
Original Music Composer
A Majority of One
Original Music Composer
Parrish
Original Music Composer
Cash McCall
Original Music Composer
Ice Palace
Original Music Composer
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Original Music Composer
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
Additional Music
A Summer Place
Original Music Composer
The Hanging Tree
Original Music Composer
The FBI Story
Original Music Composer
John Paul Jones
Original Music Composer
Marjorie Morningstar
Original Music Composer
Fort Dobbs
Original Music Composer
Darby's Rangers
Original Music Composer
Band of Angels
Original Music Composer
Escapade in Japan
Original Music Composer
China Gate
Original Music Composer
All Mine to Give
Original Music Composer
The Searchers
Original Music Composer
Death of a Scoundrel
Original Music Composer
Come Next Spring
Original Music Composer, Songs
Helen of Troy
Original Music Composer
Bandido!
Original Music Composer
Illegal
Original Music Composer
Hell on Frisco Bay
Original Music Composer
The McConnell Story
Original Music Composer
The Last Command
Original Music Composer
Battle Cry
Original Music Composer
The Violent Men
Original Music Composer
The Caine Mutiny
Original Music Composer
King Richard and the Crusaders
Original Music Composer
The Boy from Oklahoma
Original Music Composer
So Big
Original Music Composer
So This Is Love
Original Music Composer
The Charge at Feather River
Original Music Composer
The Desert Song
Original Music Composer
Trouble Along the Way
Original Music Composer
The Jazz Singer
Original Music Composer
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
Original Music Composer
Mara Maru
Original Music Composer
This Woman Is Dangerous
Additional Music
The Iron Mistress
Original Music Composer
Springfield Rifle
Original Music Composer
This Is Cinerama
Original Music Composer
The Lion and the Horse
Original Music Composer
Room for One More
Original Music Composer
Lightning Strikes Twice
Original Music Composer
Come Fill the Cup
Additional Music
Close to My Heart
Original Music Composer
Sugarfoot
Original Music Composer
Distant Drums
Original Music Composer
Jim Thorpe – All-American
Original Music Composer
Force of Arms
Original Music Composer
On Moonlight Bay
Original Music Composer
I Was a Communist for the FBI
Original Music Composer
Operation Pacific
Original Music Composer
The Flame and the Arrow
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Caged
Original Music Composer
The Glass Menagerie
Original Music Composer
Dallas
Original Music Composer
Rocky Mountain
Original Music Composer
The Breaking Point
Original Music Composer
Backfire
Additional Music
The Damned Don't Cry
Additional Music
The Fountainhead
Original Music Composer
Beyond the Forest
Original Music Composer
Without Honor
Original Music Composer
White Heat
Original Music Composer
Mrs. Mike
Music, Original Music Composer
Flamingo Road
Original Music Composer
A Kiss in the Dark
Original Music Composer
The Lady Takes a Sailor
Original Music Composer
South of St. Louis
Original Music Composer
The Woman in White
Original Music Composer
Johnny Belinda
Original Music Composer
Winter Meeting
Original Music Composer
The Decision of Christopher Blake
Original Music Composer
Key Largo
Original Music Composer
Silver River
Original Music Composer
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Original Music Composer
Fighter Squadron
Original Music Composer
April Showers
Original Music Composer
Deep Valley
Original Music Composer
The Voice of the Turtle
Original Music Composer
Dark Passage
Additional Music
Pursued
Original Music Composer
Life with Father
Original Music Composer
Cheyenne
Original Music Composer
The Unfaithful
Original Music Composer
Love and Learn
Original Music Composer
The Beast with Five Fingers
Original Music Composer
My Wild Irish Rose
Original Music Composer
The Big Sleep
Original Music Composer
A Stolen Life
Original Music Composer
Cloak and Dagger
Original Music Composer
My Reputation
Original Music Composer
Tomorrow Is Forever
Original Music Composer
One More Tomorrow
Original Music Composer
The Man I Love
Additional Music
Night and Day
Additional Music
Mildred Pierce
Original Music Composer
The Corn Is Green
Original Music Composer
San Antonio
Original Music Composer
Saratoga Trunk
Original Music Composer
Rhapsody in Blue
Original Music Composer
Roughly Speaking
Original Music Composer
Passage to Marseille
Original Music Composer, Music Arranger
The Adventures of Mark Twain
Original Music Composer
Arsenic and Old Lace
Original Music Composer
The Conspirators
Original Music Composer
Since You Went Away
Original Music Composer
Up in Arms
Original Music Composer
Casablanca
Original Music Composer, Music Arranger
Watch on the Rhine
Original Music Composer, Music Arranger
Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain
Original Music Composer
Mission to Moscow
Original Music Composer
The Gay Sisters
Original Music Composer
Captains of the Clouds
Original Music Composer
Now, Voyager
Original Music Composer
In This Our Life
Original Music Composer
Spy Ship
Additional Music
I Was Framed
Additional Music
Desperate Journey
Original Music Composer
Murder in the Big House
Original Music Composer
Sergeant York
Original Music Composer
Dive Bomber
Original Music Composer
The Great Lie
Original Music Composer
The Bride Came C.O.D.
Original Music Composer
Shining Victory
Original Music Composer
They Died with Their Boots On
Original Music Composer
Nine Lives Are Not Enough
Music Score Producer
Santa Fe Trail
Original Music Composer
City for Conquest
Original Music Composer
The Letter
Original Music Composer
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Original Music Composer
Virginia City
Original Music Composer
All This, and Heaven Too
Original Music Composer
An Angel from Texas
Additional Music
A Dispatch from Reuters
Original Music Composer
Gone with the Wind
Original Music Composer
Dark Victory
Original Music Composer
Four Wives
Original Music Composer
Intermezzo: A Love Story
Original Music Composer
The Old Maid
Original Music Composer
Dust Be My Destiny
Original Music Composer
Dodge City
Original Music Composer
They Made Me a Criminal
Original Music Composer
The Oklahoma Kid
Original Music Composer
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Original Music Composer
Each Dawn I Die
Original Music Composer
Invisible Stripes
Additional Music
Jezebel
Original Music Composer
Angels with Dirty Faces
Original Music Composer
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Original Music Composer
The Sisters
Original Music Composer
The Dawn Patrol
Original Music Composer
Crime School
Original Music Composer
Gold Is Where You Find It
Original Music Composer
White Banners
Original Music Composer
Kid Galahad
Original Music Composer
God's Country and the Woman
Music, Original Music Composer
Submarine D-1
Original Music Composer
That Certain Woman
Original Music Composer
Tovarich
Original Music Composer
Slim
Original Music Composer
A Star Is Born
Original Music Composer
Breakfast for Two
Additional Music
The Life of Emile Zola
Original Music Composer
Green Light
Original Music Composer
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Original Music Composer
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Original Music Composer
The Garden of Allah
Original Music Composer
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Original Music Composer
Follow the Fleet
Music Director
Chatterbox
Original Music Composer
She
Original Music Composer
I Dream Too Much
Original Music Composer
The Three Musketeers
Original Music Composer
The Informer
Original Music Composer, Music Arranger
Alice Adams
Original Music Composer
Star of Midnight
Music Director
Break of Hearts
Music Director
Roberta
Music Director
Top Hat
Music Director
Of Human Bondage
Original Music Composer
Bachelor Bait
Music Director
Where Sinners Meet
Music Director
The Fountain
Original Music Composer
The Lost Patrol
Original Music Composer
Stingaree
Original Music Composer
Murder on the Blackboard
Original Music Composer, Music Director
The Little Minister
Original Music Composer
The Age of Innocence
Original Music Composer
The Life of Vergie Winters
Original Music Composer
Wednesday's Child
Music Director
Spitfire
Music Director
Two Alone
Music Director
This Man Is Mine
Music Director
Finishing School
Music Director
The Gay Divorcee
Music Director
Anne of Green Gables
Music Director
Their Big Moment
Music Director
Let's Try Again
Music Director
We're Rich Again
Music Director
Christopher Strong
Original Music Composer
After Tonight
Music Director
Before Dawn
Music Director
The Monkey's Paw
Original Music Composer
The Cheyenne Kid
Original Music Composer
Lucky Devils
Original Music Composer
Scarlet River
Music Director
The Son of Kong
Original Music Composer
The Right To Romance
Original Music Composer
Little Women
Original Music Composer
Morning Glory
Original Music Composer
Melody Cruise
Original Music Composer
The Silver Cord
Original Music Composer
Diplomaniacs
Original Music Composer
Sweepings
Original Music Composer
Headline Shooter
Music Director
The Past of Mary Holmes
Music Director
Flying Down to Rio
Music Director
Blind Adventure
Music Director
Bed of Roses
Music Director, Additional Music
Chance at Heaven
Music Director
Rafter Romance
Music Director
King Kong
Original Music Composer
The Most Dangerous Game
Original Music Composer
Is My Face Red?
Original Music Composer
Bird of Paradise
Original Music Composer
The Conquerors
Original Music Composer
What Price Hollywood?
Original Music Composer, Music Director
The Lost Squadron
Original Music Composer
The Animal Kingdom
Original Music Composer
Girl of the Rio
Original Music Composer
Symphony of Six Million
Original Music Composer
State's Attorney
Original Music Composer
Thirteen Women
Original Music Composer
Roar of the Dragon
Music Director
The Half-Naked Truth
Original Music Composer
A Bill of Divorcement
Music Director, Original Music Composer
The Penguin Pool Murder
Music Director, Original Music Composer
The Phantom of Crestwood
Music Director
Lady with a Past
Music Director
Westward Passage
Music Director
Carnival Boat
Music Director
Secrets of the French Police
Music Director
Little Orphan Annie
Original Music Composer
The Gay Diplomat
Music Director, Original Music Composer
Cimarron
Original Music Composer
Way Back Home
Original Music Composer
Beau Ideal
Original Music Composer
Kept Husbands
Original Music Composer
Cracked Nuts
Original Music Composer
Bachelor Apartment
Original Music Composer
Transgression
Original Music Composer
The Public Defender
Original Music Composer
High Stakes
Original Music Composer
The Runaround
Original Music Composer
Friends and Lovers
Original Music Composer
Fanny Foley Herself
Original Music Composer
Consolation Marriage
Original Music Composer
Are These Our Children?
Original Music Composer
Secret Service
Original Music Composer
Peach-o-Reno
Original Music Composer
Everything’s Rosie
Music Director
The Royal Bed
Music Director
The Lady Refuses
Music Director
Dixiana
Original Music Composer
The Delightful Rogue
Original Music Composer
Side Street
Original Music Composer
Rio Rita
Orchestrator
