Max Steiner

Personal Info

Known For Sound

Gender Male

Birthday 1888-05-10

Deathday 1971-12-28 (83 years old)

Place of Birth Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

Also Known As Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner, Maximilian Raoul Steiner, Max R. Steiner

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

Sound

1982
The Letter

as Original Music Composer

1965
Those Calloways

as Original Music Composer

1965
Two on a Guillotine

as Original Music Composer

1964
Youngblood Hawke

as Original Music Composer

1964
A Distant Trumpet

as Original Music Composer

1963
Spencer's Mountain

as Original Music Composer

1963
FBI Code 98

as Original Music Composer

1962
Rome Adventure

as Original Music Composer

1961
The Sins of Rachel Cade

as Original Music Composer

1961
Susan Slade

as Original Music Composer

1961
Portrait of a Mobster

as Original Music Composer

1961
A Majority of One

as Original Music Composer

1961
Parrish

as Original Music Composer

1960
Cash McCall

as Original Music Composer

1960
Ice Palace

as Original Music Composer

1960
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

as Original Music Composer

1959
A Summer Place

as Original Music Composer

1959
The Hanging Tree

as Original Music Composer

1959
The FBI Story

as Original Music Composer

1959
John Paul Jones

as Original Music Composer

1958
Marjorie Morningstar

as Original Music Composer

1958
Fort Dobbs

as Original Music Composer

1958
Darby's Rangers

as Original Music Composer

1957
Band of Angels

as Original Music Composer

1957
1957
Escapade in Japan

as Original Music Composer

1957
China Gate

as Original Music Composer

1957
All Mine to Give

as Original Music Composer

1956
The Searchers

as Original Music Composer

1956
Death of a Scoundrel

as Original Music Composer

1956
Come Next Spring

as Original Music Composer

1956
Helen of Troy

as Original Music Composer

1956
Bandit!

as Original Music Composer

1955
Illegal

as Original Music Composer

1955
Hell on Frisco Bay

as Original Music Composer

1955
The McConnell Story

as Original Music Composer

1955
The Last Command

as Original Music Composer

1955
Battle Cry

as Original Music Composer

1955
The Violent Men

as Original Music Composer

1954
The Caine Mutiny

as Original Music Composer

1954
King Richard and the Crusaders

as Original Music Composer

1954
The Boy from Oklahoma

as Original Music Composer

1953
So Big

as Original Music Composer

1953
So This Is Love

as Original Music Composer

1953
The Charge at Feather River

as Original Music Composer

1953
The Desert Song

as Original Music Composer

1953
Trouble Along the Way

as Original Music Composer

1953
The Jazz Singer

as Original Music Composer

1952
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima

as Original Music Composer

1952
Mara Maru

as Original Music Composer

1952
The Iron Mistress

as Original Music Composer

1952
Springfield Rifle

as Original Music Composer

1952
This Is Cinerama

as Original Music Composer

1952
The Lion and the Horse

as Original Music Composer

1952
Room for One More

as Original Music Composer

1951
Lightning Strikes Twice

as Original Music Composer

1951
Raton Pass

as Music

1951
Close to My Heart

as Original Music Composer

1951
Sugarfoot

as Original Music Composer

1951
Distant Drums

as Original Music Composer

1951
Jim Thorpe – All-American

as Original Music Composer

1951
Force of Arms

as Original Music Composer

1951
On Moonlight Bay

as Original Music Composer

1951
I Was a Communist for the FBI

as Original Music Composer

1951
Operation Pacific

as Original Music Composer

1950
The Flame and the Arrow

as Original Music Composer

1950
Caged

as Original Music Composer

1950
The Glass Menagerie

as Original Music Composer

1950
Dallas

as Original Music Composer

1950
Rocky Mountain

as Original Music Composer

1950
The Breaking Point

as Original Music Composer

1949
The Fountainhead

as Original Music Composer

1949
Beyond the Forest

as Original Music Composer

1949
Without Honor

as Original Music Composer

1949
White Heat

as Original Music Composer

1949
Mrs. Mike

as Music

1949
Flamingo Road

as Original Music Composer

1949
A Kiss in the Dark

as Original Music Composer

1949
Mrs. Mike

as Original Music Composer

1949
The Lady Takes a Sailor

as Original Music Composer

1949
South of St. Louis

as Original Music Composer

1948
The Woman in White

as Original Music Composer

1948
Johnny Belinda

as Original Music Composer

1948
My Girl Tisa

as Music

1948
Winter Meeting

as Original Music Composer

1948
The Decision of Christopher Blake

as Original Music Composer

1948
Key Largo

as Original Music Composer

1948
Silver River

as Original Music Composer

1948
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

as Original Music Composer

1948
Fighter Squadron

as Original Music Composer

1948
April Showers

as Original Music Composer

1947
Deep Valley

as Original Music Composer

1947
The Voice of the Turtle

as Original Music Composer

1947
Pursued

as Original Music Composer

1947
Life with Father

as Original Music Composer

1947
Cheyenne

as Original Music Composer

1947
The Unfaithful

as Original Music Composer

1947
Love and Learn

as Original Music Composer

1947
The Beast with Five Fingers

as Original Music Composer

1947
My Wild Irish Rose

as Original Music Composer

1946
The Big Sleep

as Original Music Composer

1946
A Stolen Life

as Original Music Composer

1946
Cloak and Dagger

as Original Music Composer

1946
My Reputation

as Original Music Composer

1946
Tomorrow Is Forever

as Original Music Composer

1946
One More Tomorrow

as Original Music Composer

1946
The Man I Love

as Original Music Composer

1945
Mildred Pierce

as Original Music Composer

1945
The Corn Is Green

as Original Music Composer

1945
San Antonio

as Original Music Composer

1945
Saratoga Trunk

as Original Music Composer

1945
Rhapsody in Blue

as Original Music Composer

1945
Roughly Speaking

as Original Music Composer

1944
Passage to Marseille

as Original Music Composer

1944
The Adventures of Mark Twain

as Original Music Composer

1944
Arsenic and Old Lace

as Original Music Composer

1944
The Conspirators

as Original Music Composer

1944
Since You Went Away

as Original Music Composer

1944
Up in Arms

as Original Music Composer

1943
Casablanca

as Original Music Composer

1943
1943
Watch on the Rhine

as Original Music Composer

1943
Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain

as Original Music Composer

1943
Mission to Moscow

as Original Music Composer

1942
The Gay Sisters

as Original Music Composer

1942
Captains of the Clouds

as Original Music Composer

1942
Now, Voyager

as Original Music Composer

1942
In This Our Life

as Original Music Composer

1942
Busses Roar

as Music

1942
Desperate Journey

as Original Music Composer

1942
Murder in the Big House

as Original Music Composer

1941
1941
Sergeant York

as Original Music Composer

1941
Dive Bomber

as Original Music Composer

1941
The Great Lie

as Original Music Composer

1941
The Bride Came C.O.D.

as Original Music Composer

1941
Shining Victory

as Original Music Composer

1941
They Died with Their Boots On

as Original Music Composer

1941
Nine Lives Are Not Enough

as Music Score Producer

1940
Santa Fe Trail

as Original Music Composer

1940
City for Conquest

as Original Music Composer

1940
The Letter

as Original Music Composer

1940
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

as Original Music Composer

1940
Virginia City

as Original Music Composer

1940
All This, and Heaven Too

as Original Music Composer

1940
1940
1940
A Dispatch from Reuters

as Original Music Composer

1939
Gone with the Wind

as Original Music Composer

1939
Dark Victory

as Original Music Composer

1939
Four Wives

as Original Music Composer

1939
Intermezzo: A Love Story

as Original Music Composer

1939
The Old Maid

as Original Music Composer

1939
Dust Be My Destiny

as Original Music Composer

1939
Dodge City

as Original Music Composer

1939
They Made Me a Criminal

as Original Music Composer

1939
The Oklahoma Kid

as Original Music Composer

1939
Confessions of a Nazi Spy

as Original Music Composer

1939
Each Dawn I Die

as Original Music Composer

1939
1938
Jezebel

as Original Music Composer

1938
1938
Angels with Dirty Faces

as Original Music Composer

1938
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

as Original Music Composer

1938
The Sisters

as Original Music Composer

1938
The Dawn Patrol

as Original Music Composer

1938
Crime School

as Original Music Composer

1938
Gold Is Where You Find It

as Original Music Composer

1938
1937
Kid Galahad

as Original Music Composer

1937
Submarine D-1

as Original Music Composer

1937
God's Country and the Woman

as Original Music Composer

1937
First Lady

as Music

1937
That Certain Woman

as Original Music Composer

1937
Tovarich

as Original Music Composer

1937
Slim

as Original Music Composer

1937
A Star Is Born

as Original Music Composer

1937
The Life of Emile Zola

as Original Music Composer

1937
Green Light

as Original Music Composer

1936
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

as Original Music Composer

1936
The Charge of the Light Brigade

as Original Music Composer

1936
The Garden of Allah

as Original Music Composer

1936
Little Lord Fauntleroy

as Original Music Composer

1936
Follow the Fleet

as Music Director

1936
Chatterbox

as Original Music Composer

1935
She

as Original Music Composer

1935
I Dream Too Much

as Original Music Composer

1935
The Three Musketeers

as Original Music Composer

1935
The Informer

as Original Music Composer

1935
Alice Adams

as Original Music Composer

1935
Star of Midnight

as Music Director

1935
Break of Hearts

as Music Director

1935
Roberta

as Music Director

1935
Top Hat

as Music Director

1934
Of Human Bondage

as Original Music Composer

1934
Bachelor Bait

as Music Director

1934
1934
Where Sinners Meet

as Music Director

1934
The Fountain

as Original Music Composer

1934
The Lost Patrol

as Original Music Composer

1934
Stingaree

as Original Music Composer

1934
Murder on the Blackboard

as Original Music Composer

1934
The Little Minister

as Original Music Composer

1934
The Age of Innocence

as Original Music Composer

1934
The Life of Vergie Winters

as Original Music Composer

1934
Wednesday's Child

as Music Director

1934
Spitfire

as Music Director

1934
Two Alone

as Music Director

1934
This Man Is Mine

as Music Director

1934
Of Human Bondage

as Conductor

1934
Finishing School

as Music Director

1934
The Gay Divorcee

as Music Director

1934
Anne of Green Gables

as Music Director

1934
Their Big Moment

as Music Director

1933
King Kong

as Original Music Composer

1933
Christopher Strong

as Original Music Composer

1933
After Tonight

as Music Director

1933
Before Dawn

as Music Director

1933
The Monkey's Paw

as Original Music Composer

1933
The Cheyenne Kid

as Original Music Composer

1933
Lucky Devils

as Original Music Composer

1933
Scarlet River

as Music Director

1933
The Son of Kong

as Original Music Composer

1933
The Right To Romance

as Original Music Composer

1933
Little Women

as Original Music Composer

1933
Morning Glory

as Original Music Composer

1933
Melody Cruise

as Original Music Composer

1933
The Silver Cord

as Original Music Composer

1933
Diplomaniacs

as Original Music Composer

1933
Sweepings

as Original Music Composer

1933
Headline Shooter

as Music Director

1933
The Past of Mary Holmes

as Music Director

1933
Cross Fire

as Sound

1933
Flying Down to Rio

as Music Director

1933
Blind Adventure

as Music Director

1933
Bed of Roses

as Music Director

1933
Chance at Heaven

as Music Director

1932
The Most Dangerous Game

as Original Music Composer

1932
Is My Face Red?

as Original Music Composer

1932
Bird of Paradise

as Original Music Composer

1932
The Conquerors

as Original Music Composer

1932
What Price Hollywood?

as Original Music Composer

1932
The Lost Squadron

as Original Music Composer

1932
The Animal Kingdom

as Original Music Composer

1932
Girl of the Rio

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

1932
The Half-Naked Truth

as Original Music Composer

1932
A Bill of Divorcement

as Music Director

1932
Penguin Pool Murder

as Music Director

1932
The Phantom of Crestwood

as Music Director

1932
A Bill of Divorcement

as Original Music Composer

1932
Lady with a Past

as Music Director

1932
Westward Passage

as Music Director

1931
The Gay Diplomat

as Music Director

1931
Cimarron

as Original Music Composer

1931
Way Back Home

as Original Music Composer

1931
Beau Ideal

as Original Music Composer

1931
Kept Husbands

as Original Music Composer

1931
Cracked Nuts

as Original Music Composer

1931
Bachelor Apartment

as Original Music Composer

1931
Transgression

as Original Music Composer

1931
The Public Defender

as Original Music Composer

1931
High Stakes

as Original Music Composer

1931
The Runaround

as Original Music Composer

1931
The Gay Diplomat

as Original Music Composer

1931
Friends and Lovers

as Original Music Composer

1931
Fanny Foley Herself

as Original Music Composer

1931
Consolation Marriage

as Original Music Composer

1931
Are These Our Children?

as Original Music Composer

1931
Secret Service

as Original Music Composer

1931
Peach-o-Reno

as Original Music Composer

1931
Everything’s Rosie

as Music Director

1931
The Royal Bed

as Music Director

1931
1930
Dixiana

as Original Music Composer

1929
The Delightful Rogue

as Original Music Composer

1929
Side Street

as Original Music Composer

1929
Rio Rita

as Orchestrator

1929
The Bondman

as Music

1916
The Bondman

as Music

Crew

1952
This Woman Is Dangerous

as Additional Music

1951
Come Fill the Cup

as Additional Music

1951
Storm Warning

as Additional Music

1950
Backfire

as Additional Music

1950
The Damned Don't Cry

as Additional Music

1947
Dark Passage

as Additional Music

1942
Spy Ship

as Additional Music

1942
I Was Framed

as Additional Music

1940
An Angel from Texas

as Additional Music

1937
Breakfast for Two

as Additional Music

Actor

2019
Max Steiner: Maestro of Movie Music

as Self (archive footage)