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.

Most Famous Work

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Gone with the Wind

(1939) Original Music Composer

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Casablanca

(1942) Original Music Composer

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King Kong

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The Searchers

(1956) Original Music Composer

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The Big Sleep

(1946) Original Music Composer

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

(1948) Original Music Composer

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Mildred Pierce

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The Caine Mutiny

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Acting

Year	Character	Movie/Tv
2019	Self (archive footage)	Max Steiner: Maestro of Movie Music 2019-11-01 Movie
1976	Self	Hollywood's Musical Moods 1976-02-16 Movie
Year	Character	Movie/Tv

Sound

Year	Role	Movie/Tv
1982	Original Music Composer	The Letter 1982-05-03 Movie
1965	Original Music Composer	Those Calloways 1965-01-28 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Two on a Guillotine 1965-01-13 Movie
1964	Original Music Composer	Youngblood Hawke 1964-11-04 Movie
	Original Music Composer	A Distant Trumpet 1964-05-20 Movie
1963	Original Music Composer	Spencer's Mountain 1963-05-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	FBI Code 98 1963-01-04 Movie
1962	Original Music Composer	Rome Adventure 1962-04-21 Movie
1961	Original Music Composer	A Majority of One 1961-12-27 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Susan Slade 1961-11-08 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Parrish 1961-05-04 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Portrait of a Mobster 1961-04-19 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Sins of Rachel Cade 1961-04-02 Movie
1960	Original Music Composer	The Dark at the Top of the Stairs 1960-09-28 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Cash McCall 1960-01-20 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Ice Palace 1960-01-02 Movie
1959	Original Music Composer	A Summer Place 1959-11-18 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The FBI Story 1959-10-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	John Paul Jones 1959-06-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Hanging Tree 1959-02-19 Movie
1958	Original Music Composer	Marjorie Morningstar 1958-04-24 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Fort Dobbs 1958-04-18 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Darby's Rangers 1958-02-12 Movie
1957	Original Music Composer	Escapade in Japan 1957-12-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	All Mine to Give 1957-11-13 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Band of Angels 1957-08-03 Movie
	Music	The Giant Claw 1957-06-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	China Gate 1957-05-22 Movie
1956	Original Music Composer	Death of a Scoundrel 1956-10-31 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Bandit! 1956-09-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Searchers 1956-05-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Come Next Spring 1956-03-09 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Helen of Troy 1956-01-26 Movie
1955	Original Music Composer	Hell on Frisco Bay 1955-12-31 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Illegal 1955-10-09 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The McConnell Story 1955-09-29 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Last Command 1955-08-03 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Battle Cry 1955-02-02 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Violent Men 1955-01-26 Movie
1954	Original Music Composer	King Richard and the Crusaders 1954-08-07 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Caine Mutiny 1954-06-24 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Boy from Oklahoma 1954-02-27 Movie
1953	Original Music Composer	So Big 1953-10-31 Movie
	Original Music Composer	So This Is Love 1953-07-15 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Charge at Feather River 1953-07-11 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Desert Song 1953-05-30 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Trouble Along the Way 1953-04-04 Movie
	Music	By the Light of the Silvery Moon 1953-03-26 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Jazz Singer 1953-02-14 Movie
1952	Original Music Composer	The Iron Mistress 1952-11-19 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Springfield Rifle 1952-10-22 Movie
	Original Music Composer	This Is Cinerama 1952-09-30 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima 1952-08-20 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Lion and the Horse 1952-05-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Mara Maru 1952-04-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Room for One More 1952-01-10 Movie
1951	Original Music Composer	Distant Drums 1951-12-25 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Close to My Heart 1951-10-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Jim Thorpe – All-American 1951-08-24 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Force of Arms 1951-08-13 Movie
	Original Music Composer	On Moonlight Bay 1951-07-26 Movie
	Original Music Composer	I Was a Communist for the FBI 1951-05-02 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Lightning Strikes Twice 1951-04-12 Movie
	Music	Raton Pass 1951-04-07 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Sugarfoot 1951-02-11 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Operation Pacific 1951-01-27 Movie
1950	Original Music Composer	Dallas 1950-12-30 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Rocky Mountain 1950-11-11 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Breaking Point 1950-10-06 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Glass Menagerie 1950-09-28 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Flame and the Arrow 1950-07-07 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Caged 1950-05-19 Movie
	Music	Young Man with a Horn 1950-03-01 Movie
1949	Original Music Composer	Mrs. Mike 1949-12-23 Movie
	Music	Mrs. Mike 1949-12-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Lady Takes a Sailor 1949-12-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Without Honor 1949-10-26 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Beyond the Forest 1949-10-21 Movie
	Original Music Composer	White Heat 1949-09-02 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Fountainhead 1949-06-25 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Flamingo Road 1949-04-30 Movie
	Original Music Composer	A Kiss in the Dark 1949-03-25 Movie
	Original Music Composer	South of St. Louis 1949-03-06 Movie
1948	Music	Adventures of Don Juan 1948-12-24 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Decision of Christopher Blake 1948-12-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Fighter Squadron 1948-11-27 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Johnny Belinda 1948-09-14 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Key Largo 1948-07-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Silver River 1948-05-20 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Woman in White 1948-05-07 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Winter Meeting 1948-04-07 Movie
	Original Music Composer	April Showers 1948-03-27 Movie
	Music	My Girl Tisa 1948-02-07 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948-01-15 Movie
1947	Original Music Composer	The Voice of the Turtle 1947-12-25 Movie
	Original Music Composer	My Wild Irish Rose 1947-12-24 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Life with Father 1947-09-13 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Deep Valley 1947-07-30 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Unfaithful 1947-07-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Cheyenne 1947-06-06 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Love and Learn 1947-05-02 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Pursued 1947-03-02 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Beast with Five Fingers 1947-02-08 Movie
1946	Original Music Composer	The Man I Love 1946-12-26 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Cloak and Dagger 1946-09-28 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Big Sleep 1946-08-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	One More Tomorrow 1946-05-24 Movie
	Original Music Composer	A Stolen Life 1946-05-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Tomorrow Is Forever 1946-02-20 Movie
	Original Music Composer	My Reputation 1946-01-25 Movie
1945	Original Music Composer	San Antonio 1945-12-29 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Saratoga Trunk 1945-11-21 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Mildred Pierce 1945-10-20 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Rhapsody in Blue 1945-06-27 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Corn Is Green 1945-03-29 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Roughly Speaking 1945-01-31 Movie
1944	Original Music Composer	The Conspirators 1944-10-24 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Arsenic and Old Lace 1944-09-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Adventures of Mark Twain 1944-07-20 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Since You Went Away 1944-06-30 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Passage to Marseille 1944-03-11 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Up in Arms 1944-02-17 Movie
1943	Music	Northern Pursuit 1943-11-07 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain 1943-10-10 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Watch on the Rhine 1943-08-27 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Mission to Moscow 1943-04-29 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Casablanca 1943-01-15 Movie
1942	Original Music Composer	Now, Voyager 1942-10-22 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Desperate Journey 1942-09-26 Movie
	Music	Busses Roar 1942-09-19 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Gay Sisters 1942-08-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	In This Our Life 1942-05-08 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Murder in the Big House 1942-04-11 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Captains of the Clouds 1942-02-12 Movie
1941	Original Music Composer	They Died with Their Boots On 1941-11-20 Movie
	Music	One Foot in Heaven 1941-11-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Sergeant York 1941-09-27 Movie
	Music Score Producer	Nine Lives Are Not Enough 1941-09-20 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Dive Bomber 1941-08-30 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Bride Came C.O.D. 1941-07-12 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Shining Victory 1941-05-30 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Great Lie 1941-04-05 Movie
1940	Original Music Composer	Santa Fe Trail 1940-12-20 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Letter 1940-11-21 Movie
	Original Music Composer	A Dispatch from Reuters 1940-10-19 Movie
	Original Music Composer	City for Conquest 1940-09-21 Movie
	Original Music Composer	All This, and Heaven Too 1940-07-05 Movie
	Music	Murder in the Air 1940-06-01 Movie
	Music	It All Came True 1940-04-06 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Virginia City 1940-03-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet 1940-02-23 Movie
1939	Original Music Composer	Four Wives 1939-12-22 Movie
	Music	The Mad Empress 1939-12-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Gone with the Wind 1939-12-15 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Intermezzo: A Love Story 1939-10-06 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Dust Be My Destiny 1939-09-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Each Dawn I Die 1939-08-19 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Old Maid 1939-08-16 Movie
	Music	Daughters Courageous 1939-06-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Confessions of a Nazi Spy 1939-05-06 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Dark Victory 1939-04-20 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Dodge City 1939-04-08 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Oklahoma Kid 1939-03-11 Movie
	Original Music Composer	They Made Me a Criminal 1939-01-21 Movie
1938	Original Music Composer	The Dawn Patrol 1938-12-24 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Angels with Dirty Faces 1938-11-26 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Sisters 1938-10-14 Movie
	Music	Four Daughters 1938-08-09 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse 1938-07-20 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Crime School 1938-05-10 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Jezebel 1938-03-26 Movie
	Music	Condemned Women 1938-03-18 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Gold Is Where You Find It 1938-02-12 Movie
	Music	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1938-02-11 Movie
1937	Original Music Composer	Tovarich 1937-12-25 Movie
	Music	First Lady 1937-12-04 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Submarine D-1 1937-11-27 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Life of Emile Zola 1937-09-09 Movie
	Original Music Composer	That Certain Woman 1937-08-30 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Slim 1937-06-24 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Kid Galahad 1937-05-29 Movie
	Original Music Composer	A Star Is Born 1937-04-27 Movie
	Music	The Soldier and the Lady 1937-04-09 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Green Light 1937-02-20 Movie
	Original Music Composer	God's Country and the Woman 1937-01-16 Movie
	Music	God's Country and the Woman 1937-01-16 Movie
1936	Original Music Composer	The Charge of the Light Brigade 1936-10-20 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Garden of Allah 1936-10-14 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Ex-Mrs. Bradford 1936-04-24 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Little Lord Fauntleroy 1936-03-06 Movie
	Music Director	Follow the Fleet 1936-02-20 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Chatterbox 1936-01-17 Movie
1935	Original Music Composer	I Dream Too Much 1935-11-29 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Three Musketeers 1935-11-01 Movie
	Music Director	Top Hat 1935-08-29 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Alice Adams 1935-08-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	She 1935-07-12 Movie
	Music Director	Break of Hearts 1935-05-31 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Informer 1935-05-09 Movie
	Music Director	Star of Midnight 1935-04-19 Movie
	Music Director	Roberta 1935-03-07 Movie
1934	Original Music Composer	The Little Minister 1934-12-28 Movie
	Music Director	Anne of Green Gables 1934-11-23 Movie
	Music Director	Wednesday's Child 1934-10-26 Movie
	Music Director	The Gay Divorcee 1934-10-12 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Age of Innocence 1934-09-14 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Fountain 1934-08-22 Movie
	Music Director	Their Big Moment 1934-08-17 Movie
	Music Director	Bachelor Bait 1934-07-27 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Of Human Bondage 1934-07-20 Movie
	Conductor	Of Human Bondage 1934-07-20 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Murder on the Blackboard 1934-06-15 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Life of Vergie Winters 1934-06-14 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Stingaree 1934-05-24 Movie
	Music Director	Where Sinners Meet 1934-05-17 Movie
	Music Director	Finishing School 1934-05-04 Movie
	Music Director	This Man Is Mine 1934-04-13 Movie
	Music	The Crime Doctor 1934-03-14 Movie
	Music Director	Spitfire 1934-03-08 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Lost Patrol 1934-02-16 Movie
	Music Director	Two Alone 1934-01-26 Movie
1933	Original Music Composer	The Son of Kong 1933-12-22 Movie
	Music Director	Flying Down to Rio 1933-12-22 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Little Women 1933-11-24 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Right To Romance 1933-11-17 Movie
	Music Director	After Tonight 1933-11-10 Movie
	Music Director	Chance at Heaven 1933-10-27 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Morning Glory 1933-08-18 Movie
	Music Director	Blind Adventure 1933-08-18 Movie
	Music Director	Before Dawn 1933-08-04 Movie
	Music Director	Headline Shooter 1933-07-28 Movie
	Music Director	Bed of Roses 1933-06-29 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Melody Cruise 1933-06-22 Movie
	Sound	Cross Fire 1933-05-28 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Silver Cord 1933-05-05 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Diplomaniacs 1933-04-28 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Sweepings 1933-04-14 Movie
	Original Music Composer	King Kong 1933-03-15 Movie
	Music Director	Scarlet River 1933-03-10 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Christopher Strong 1933-03-09 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Lucky Devils 1933-02-03 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Cheyenne Kid 1933-01-20 Movie
	Music Director	The Past of Mary Holmes 1933-01-20 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Monkey's Paw 1933-01-13 Movie
1932	Original Music Composer	The Animal Kingdom 1932-12-28 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Half-Naked Truth 1932-12-16 Movie
	Music Director	Penguin Pool Murder 1932-12-09 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Conquerors 1932-11-18 Movie
	Music Director	The Phantom of Crestwood 1932-10-14 Movie
	Music Director	A Bill of Divorcement 1932-09-28 Movie
	Original Music Composer	A Bill of Divorcement 1932-09-28 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Most Dangerous Game 1932-09-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Thirteen Women 1932-09-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Bird of Paradise 1932-08-12 Movie
	Music Director	Roar of the Dragon 1932-07-08 Movie
	Original Music Composer	What Price Hollywood? 1932-06-24 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Is My Face Red? 1932-06-17 Movie
	Music Director	Westward Passage 1932-05-27 Movie
	Original Music Composer	State's Attorney 1932-05-20 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Symphony of Six Million 1932-04-29 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Lost Squadron 1932-03-12 Movie
	Music Director	Lady with a Past 1932-02-19 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Girl of the Rio 1932-01-15 Movie
1931	Original Music Composer	Peach-o-Reno 1931-12-25 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Consolation Marriage 1931-11-21 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Secret Service 1931-11-14 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Way Back Home 1931-11-13 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Are These Our Children? 1931-11-13 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Fanny Foley Herself 1931-10-09 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Friends and Lovers 1931-10-03 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Gay Diplomat 1931-08-22 Movie
	Music Director	The Gay Diplomat 1931-08-22 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Runaround 1931-08-21 Movie
	Original Music Composer	High Stakes 1931-08-18 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Public Defender 1931-08-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Transgression 1931-06-27 Movie
	Music	Young Donovan's Kid 1931-06-06 Movie
	Music Director	Everything’s Rosie 1931-05-22 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Cracked Nuts 1931-04-18 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Bachelor Apartment 1931-04-15 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Kept Husbands 1931-02-22 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Cimarron 1931-01-26 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Beau Ideal 1931-01-25 Movie
	Music Director	The Royal Bed 1931-01-15 Movie
1930	Original Music Composer	Dixiana 1930-07-22 Movie
1929	Original Music Composer	The Delightful Rogue 1929-09-21 Movie
	Orchestrator	Rio Rita 1929-09-15 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Side Street 1929-09-14 Movie
	Music	The Bondman 1929-01-01 Movie
1916	Music	The Bondman 1916-03-20 Movie
Year	Role	Movie/Tv

Crew

Year	Role	Movie/Tv
1952	Additional Music	This Woman Is Dangerous 1952-02-09 Movie
1951	Additional Music	Come Fill the Cup 1951-10-24 Movie
	Additional Music	Storm Warning 1951-02-10 Movie
1950	Additional Music	Backfire 1950-01-26 Movie
1947	Additional Music	Dark Passage 1947-09-05 Movie
1942	Additional Music	Spy Ship 1942-06-06 Movie
	Additional Music	I Was Framed 1942-04-04 Movie
1940	Additional Music	An Angel from Texas 1940-04-27 Movie
1937	Additional Music	Breakfast for Two 1937-10-22 Movie
Year	Role	Movie/Tv