Max Steiner
Personal Info
Known for
Sound
Gender
Male
Birthday
1888-05-10
Day of Death
1971-12-28 (83 years old)
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 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
Acting
(2019)
Max Steiner: Maestro of Movie Music
as Self (archive footage)
(1976)
Hollywood's Musical Moods
as Self
Crew
(1982)
The Letter
Original Music Composer
(1965)
Two on a Guillotine
Original Music Composer
(1965)
Those Calloways
Original Music Composer
(1964)
Youngblood Hawke
Original Music Composer
(1964)
A Distant Trumpet
Original Music Composer
(1963)
Spencer's Mountain
Original Music Composer
(1963)
FBI Code 98
Original Music Composer
(1962)
Rome Adventure
Original Music Composer
(1961)
The Sins of Rachel Cade
Original Music Composer
(1961)
Susan Slade
Original Music Composer
(1961)
Portrait of a Mobster
Original Music Composer
(1961)
A Majority of One
Original Music Composer
(1961)
Parrish
Original Music Composer
(1960)
Cash McCall
Original Music Composer
(1960)
Ice Palace
Original Music Composer
(1960)
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Original Music Composer
(1959)
The FBI Story
Original Music Composer
(1959)
A Summer Place
Original Music Composer
(1959)
John Paul Jones
Original Music Composer
(1959)
The Hanging Tree
Original Music Composer
(1958)
Fort Dobbs
Original Music Composer
(1958)
Marjorie Morningstar
Original Music Composer
(1958)
Darby's Rangers
Original Music Composer
(1957)
Band of Angels
Original Music Composer
(1957)
The Giant Claw
Music
(1957)
Escapade in Japan
Original Music Composer
(1957)
China Gate
Original Music Composer
(1957)
All Mine to Give
Original Music Composer
(1956)
The Searchers
Original Music Composer
(1956)
Death of a Scoundrel
Original Music Composer
(1956)
Come Next Spring
Original Music Composer
(1956)
Helen of Troy
Original Music Composer
(1956)
Bandido!
Original Music Composer
(1955)
Illegal
Original Music Composer
(1955)
Hell on Frisco Bay
Original Music Composer
(1955)
The Last Command
Original Music Composer
(1955)
The Violent Men
Original Music Composer
(1955)
Battle Cry
Original Music Composer
(1955)
The McConnell Story
Original Music Composer
(1954)
The Caine Mutiny
Original Music Composer
(1954)
The Boy from Oklahoma
Original Music Composer
(1954)
King Richard and the Crusaders
Original Music Composer
(1953)
(1953)
So Big
Original Music Composer
(1953)
So This Is Love
Original Music Composer
(1953)
The Jazz Singer
Original Music Composer
(1953)
Trouble Along the Way
Original Music Composer
(1953)
The Desert Song
Original Music Composer
(1953)
The Charge at Feather River
Original Music Composer
(1952)
Mara Maru
Original Music Composer
(1952)
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
Original Music Composer
(1952)
This Woman Is Dangerous
Additional Music
(1952)
The Lion and the Horse
Original Music Composer
(1952)
Room for One More
Original Music Composer
(1952)
Springfield Rifle
Original Music Composer
(1952)
This Is Cinerama
Original Music Composer
(1952)
The Iron Mistress
Original Music Composer
(1951)
Lightning Strikes Twice
Original Music Composer
(1951)
Raton Pass
Music
(1951)
Come Fill the Cup
Additional Music
(1951)
Sugarfoot
Original Music Composer
(1951)
Close to My Heart
Original Music Composer
(1951)
Force of Arms
Original Music Composer
(1951)
On Moonlight Bay
Original Music Composer
(1951)
Operation Pacific
Original Music Composer
(1951)
Jim Thorpe – All-American
Original Music Composer
(1951)
Distant Drums
Original Music Composer
(1951)
I Was a Communist for the FBI
Original Music Composer
(1951)
Storm Warning
Additional Music
(1950)
The Flame and the Arrow
Original Music Composer
(1950)
Caged
Original Music Composer
(1950)
The Glass Menagerie
Original Music Composer
(1950)
Dallas
Original Music Composer
(1950)
Rocky Mountain
Original Music Composer
(1950)
The Breaking Point
Original Music Composer
(1950)
Backfire
Additional Music
(1950)
(1950)
The Damned Don't Cry
Additional Music
(1949)
The Fountainhead
Original Music Composer
(1949)
Beyond the Forest
Original Music Composer
(1949)
Without Honor
Original Music Composer
(1949)
White Heat
Original Music Composer
(1949)
Mrs. Mike
Music, Original Music Composer
(1949)
Flamingo Road
Original Music Composer
(1949)
A Kiss in the Dark
Original Music Composer
(1949)
The Lady Takes a Sailor
Original Music Composer
(1949)
South of St. Louis
Original Music Composer
(1948)
The Woman in White
Original Music Composer
(1948)
Johnny Belinda
Original Music Composer
(1948)
My Girl Tisa
Music
(1948)
Winter Meeting
Original Music Composer
(1948)
Key Largo
Original Music Composer
(1948)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Original Music Composer
(1948)
Silver River
Original Music Composer
(1948)
The Decision of Christopher Blake
Original Music Composer
(1948)
Fighter Squadron
Original Music Composer
(1948)
April Showers
Original Music Composer
(1948)
(1947)
Deep Valley
Original Music Composer
(1947)
The Voice of the Turtle
Original Music Composer
(1947)
Dark Passage
Additional Music
(1947)
Pursued
Original Music Composer
(1947)
The Beast with Five Fingers
Original Music Composer
(1947)
Life with Father
Original Music Composer
(1947)
Cheyenne
Original Music Composer
(1947)
The Unfaithful
Original Music Composer
(1947)
Love and Learn
Original Music Composer
(1947)
My Wild Irish Rose
Original Music Composer
(1946)
The Big Sleep
Original Music Composer
(1946)
A Stolen Life
Original Music Composer
(1946)
Cloak and Dagger
Original Music Composer
(1946)
My Reputation
Original Music Composer
(1946)
Tomorrow Is Forever
Original Music Composer
(1946)
One More Tomorrow
Original Music Composer
(1946)
The Man I Love
Additional Music
(1945)
Mildred Pierce
Original Music Composer
(1945)
The Corn Is Green
Original Music Composer
(1945)
San Antonio
Original Music Composer
(1945)
Roughly Speaking
Original Music Composer
(1945)
Saratoga Trunk
Original Music Composer
(1945)
Rhapsody in Blue
Original Music Composer
(1944)
Passage to Marseille
Original Music Composer
(1944)
The Adventures of Mark Twain
Original Music Composer
(1944)
Arsenic and Old Lace
Original Music Composer
(1944)
The Conspirators
Original Music Composer
(1944)
Since You Went Away
Original Music Composer
(1944)
Up in Arms
Original Music Composer
(1943)
Casablanca
Original Music Composer
(1943)
Northern Pursuit
Music
(1943)
Watch on the Rhine
Original Music Composer
(1943)
Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain
Original Music Composer
(1943)
Mission to Moscow
Original Music Composer
(1942)
The Gay Sisters
Original Music Composer
(1942)
Captains of the Clouds
Original Music Composer
(1942)
Now, Voyager
Original Music Composer
(1942)
In This Our Life
Original Music Composer
(1942)
Busses Roar
Music
(1942)
Spy Ship
Additional Music
(1942)
I Was Framed
Additional Music
(1942)
Desperate Journey
Original Music Composer
(1942)
Murder in the Big House
Original Music Composer
(1941)
One Foot in Heaven
Music
(1941)
Sergeant York
Original Music Composer
(1941)
Dive Bomber
Original Music Composer
(1941)
The Great Lie
Original Music Composer
(1941)
The Bride Came C.O.D.
Original Music Composer
(1941)
Shining Victory
Original Music Composer
(1941)
They Died with Their Boots On
Original Music Composer
(1941)
Nine Lives Are Not Enough
Music Score Producer
(1940)
Santa Fe Trail
Original Music Composer
(1940)
City for Conquest
Original Music Composer
(1940)
The Letter
Original Music Composer
(1940)
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Original Music Composer
(1940)
Virginia City
Original Music Composer
(1940)
All This, and Heaven Too
Original Music Composer
(1940)
Murder in the Air
Music
(1940)
It All Came True
Music
(1940)
An Angel from Texas
Additional Music
(1940)
A Dispatch from Reuters
Original Music Composer
(1939)
Gone with the Wind
Original Music Composer
(1939)
Dark Victory
Original Music Composer
(1939)
Four Wives
Original Music Composer
(1939)
Intermezzo: A Love Story
Original Music Composer
(1939)
The Old Maid
Original Music Composer
(1939)
They Made Me a Criminal
Original Music Composer
(1939)
Dust Be My Destiny
Original Music Composer
(1939)
Dodge City
Original Music Composer
(1939)
The Oklahoma Kid
Original Music Composer
(1939)
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Original Music Composer
(1939)
Each Dawn I Die
Original Music Composer
(1939)
Daughters Courageous
Music
(1939)
The Mad Empress
Music
(1939)
Invisible Stripes
Additional Music
(1938)
Jezebel
Original Music Composer
(1938)
Condemned Women
Music
(1938)
Angels with Dirty Faces
Original Music Composer
(1938)
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Original Music Composer
(1938)
The Sisters
Original Music Composer
(1938)
The Dawn Patrol
Original Music Composer
(1938)
Crime School
Original Music Composer
(1938)
Gold Is Where You Find It
Original Music Composer
(1938)
Four Daughters
Music
(1938)
(1938)
White Banners
Original Music Composer
(1937)
Kid Galahad
Original Music Composer
(1937)
God's Country and the Woman
Music, Original Music Composer
(1937)
Submarine D-1
Original Music Composer
(1937)
First Lady
Music
(1937)
That Certain Woman
Original Music Composer
(1937)
Slim
Original Music Composer
(1937)
Tovarich
Original Music Composer
(1937)
A Star Is Born
Original Music Composer
(1937)
Breakfast for Two
Additional Music
(1937)
The Life of Emile Zola
Original Music Composer
(1937)
Green Light
Original Music Composer
(1937)
(1936)
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Original Music Composer
(1936)
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Original Music Composer
(1936)
The Garden of Allah
Original Music Composer
(1936)
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Original Music Composer
(1936)
Follow the Fleet
Music Director
(1936)
Chatterbox
Original Music Composer
(1935)
She
Original Music Composer
(1935)
The Informer
Original Music Composer
(1935)
I Dream Too Much
Original Music Composer
(1935)
The Three Musketeers
Original Music Composer
(1935)
Alice Adams
Original Music Composer
(1935)
Star of Midnight
Music Director
(1935)
Break of Hearts
Music Director
(1935)
Roberta
Music Director
(1935)
Top Hat
Music Director
(1934)
Of Human Bondage
Original Music Composer, Conductor
(1934)
Bachelor Bait
Music Director
(1934)
The Crime Doctor
Music
(1934)
The Fountain
Original Music Composer
(1934)
Where Sinners Meet
Music Director
(1934)
Murder on the Blackboard
Original Music Composer
(1934)
The Lost Patrol
Original Music Composer
(1934)
Stingaree
Original Music Composer
(1934)
The Age of Innocence
Original Music Composer
(1934)
The Life of Vergie Winters
Original Music Composer
(1934)
The Little Minister
Original Music Composer
(1934)
Wednesday's Child
Music Director
(1934)
Spitfire
Music Director
(1934)
Two Alone
Music Director
(1934)
This Man Is Mine
Music Director
(1934)
Finishing School
Music Director, Additional Music
(1934)
The Gay Divorcee
Music Director
(1934)
Anne of Green Gables
Music Director
(1934)
Their Big Moment
Music Director
(1934)
Let's Try Again
Music Director
(1933)
King Kong
Original Music Composer
(1933)
Christopher Strong
Original Music Composer
(1933)
After Tonight
Music Director
(1933)
Before Dawn
Music Director
(1933)
Lucky Devils
Original Music Composer
(1933)
The Monkey's Paw
Original Music Composer
(1933)
The Cheyenne Kid
Original Music Composer
(1933)
Scarlet River
Music Director
(1933)
The Right To Romance
Original Music Composer
(1933)
Melody Cruise
Original Music Composer
(1933)
The Son of Kong
Original Music Composer
(1933)
Little Women
Original Music Composer
(1933)
Morning Glory
Original Music Composer
(1933)
Sweepings
Original Music Composer
(1933)
The Silver Cord
Original Music Composer
(1933)
Diplomaniacs
Original Music Composer
(1933)
Headline Shooter
Music Director
(1933)
The Past of Mary Holmes
Music Director
(1933)
Cross Fire
Sound
(1933)
Flying Down to Rio
Music Director
(1933)
Blind Adventure
Music Director
(1933)
Bed of Roses
Music Director, Additional Music
(1933)
Chance at Heaven
Music Director
(1932)
The Most Dangerous Game
Original Music Composer
(1932)
Is My Face Red?
Original Music Composer
(1932)
Bird of Paradise
Original Music Composer
(1932)
The Conquerors
Original Music Composer
(1932)
What Price Hollywood?
Original Music Composer, Music Director
(1932)
The Lost Squadron
Original Music Composer
(1932)
The Animal Kingdom
Original Music Composer
(1932)
Girl of the Rio
Original Music Composer
(1932)
Symphony of Six Million
Original Music Composer
(1932)
State's Attorney
Original Music Composer
(1932)
Thirteen Women
Original Music Composer
(1932)
Roar of the Dragon
Music Director
(1932)
The Half-Naked Truth
Original Music Composer
(1932)
A Bill of Divorcement
Music Director, Original Music Composer
(1932)
The Penguin Pool Murder
Music Director
(1932)
The Phantom of Crestwood
Music Director
(1932)
Lady with a Past
Music Director
(1932)
Westward Passage
Music Director
(1931)
The Gay Diplomat
Music Director, Original Music Composer
(1931)
Cimarron
Original Music Composer
(1931)
Way Back Home
Original Music Composer
(1931)
Bachelor Apartment
Original Music Composer
(1931)
Beau Ideal
Original Music Composer
(1931)
Fanny Foley Herself
Original Music Composer
(1931)
The Runaround
Original Music Composer
(1931)
Consolation Marriage
Original Music Composer
(1931)
The Public Defender
Original Music Composer
(1931)
Peach-o-Reno
Original Music Composer
(1931)
High Stakes
Original Music Composer
(1931)
Kept Husbands
Original Music Composer
(1931)
Transgression
Original Music Composer
(1931)
Are These Our Children?
Original Music Composer
(1931)
Friends and Lovers
Original Music Composer
(1931)
Secret Service
Original Music Composer
(1931)
Cracked Nuts
Original Music Composer
(1931)
Everything’s Rosie
Music Director
(1931)
The Royal Bed
Music Director
(1931)
Young Donovan's Kid
Music
(1930)
Dixiana
Original Music Composer
(1929)
The Delightful Rogue
Original Music Composer
(1929)
Side Street
Original Music Composer
(1929)
Rio Rita
Orchestrator
(1929)
The Bondman
Music
(1916)
The Bondman
Music