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Max Steiner

Born May 10, 1888 · Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

Died December 28, 1971 · aged 83

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 …

Known For

Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind · 1939

Gone with the Wind

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.

Casablanca

Casablanca · 1943

MovieDramaRomance

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

The Searchers

The Searchers · 1956

As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.

King Kong

King Kong · 1933

MovieAdventureFantasy

Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to be displayed on Broadway as King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre · 1948

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

MovieAdventureDrama

Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local bandits, and greed all get in the way of their journey.

The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep · 1946

MovieMysteryCrime

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.

White Heat

White Heat · 1949

MovieCrimeDrama

A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.

Arsenic and Old Lace

Arsenic and Old Lace · 1944

Arsenic and Old Lace

MovieComedyCrime

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!

Filmography

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Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind · 1939

Gone with the Wind

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.

Original Music Composer

Casablanca

Casablanca · 1943

MovieDramaRomance

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Original Music Composer

The Searchers

The Searchers · 1956

As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.

Original Music Composer

King Kong

King Kong · 1933

MovieAdventureFantasy

Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to be displayed on Broadway as King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.

Original Music Composer

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre · 1948

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

MovieAdventureDrama

Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local bandits, and greed all get in the way of their journey.

Original Music Composer

The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep · 1946

MovieMysteryCrime

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.

Original Music Composer

White Heat

White Heat · 1949

MovieCrimeDrama

A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.

Original Music Composer

Arsenic and Old Lace

Arsenic and Old Lace · 1944

Arsenic and Old Lace

MovieComedyCrime

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!

Original Music Composer

Mildred Pierce

Mildred Pierce · 1945

MovieCrimeDrama

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

Original Music Composer

Dark Passage

Dark Passage · 1947

MovieThrillerMystery

A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.

Additional Music

Helen of Troy

Helen of Troy · 1956

MovieAdventureWar

Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by the royal Greeks, he must flee...but fate and their mutual passions lead him to take Helen along. This gives the Greeks just the excuse they need for much-desired war.

Original Music Composer

Key Largo

Key Largo · 1948

MovieCrimeThriller

A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner James Temple, his widowed daughter-in-law Nora, and ex-GI Frank McCloud.

Original Music Composer

The Caine Mutiny

The Caine Mutiny · 1954

The Caine Mutiny

When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.

Original Music Composer

Top Hat

Top Hat · 1935

MovieMusicComedy

Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.

Music Director

Now, Voyager

Now, Voyager · 1942

MovieRomanceDrama

A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and from an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.

Original Music Composer

King Richard and the Crusaders

King Richard and the Crusaders · 1954

King Richard and the Crusaders

MovieAdventureDrama

Based on Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman, this is the story of the romantic adventures of Christians and Muslims during the battle for the Holy Land in the time of King Richard the Lionheart.

Original Music Composer

Sergeant York

Sergeant York · 1941

Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.

Original Music Composer

Tomorrow Is Forever

Tomorrow Is Forever · 1946

Tomorrow Is Forever

MovieDramaRomance

In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.

Original Music Composer

A Star Is Born

A Star Is Born · 1937

MovieDramaRomance

Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.

Original Music Composer

Adventures of Don Juan

Adventures of Don Juan · 1948

Adventures of Don Juan

MovieAdventureRomance

Spanish Lothario Don Juan, the legendary lover and adventurer returns to Spain following a scandal and comes to the aid of his queen, who is under threat from sinister forces.

Music

Little Women

Little Women · 1933

MovieDramaFamily

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

Original Music Composer

The Charge of the Light Brigade

The Charge of the Light Brigade · 1936

The Charge of the Light Brigade

MovieDramaAdventure

In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances whose greatest prize is the domination of India and the border territories, Major Geoffrey Vickers must endure several betrayals and misfortunes before he can achieve his revenge at the Balaclava Heights, on October 25, 1854, the most glorious day of the Crimean War.

Original Music Composer

Pursued

Pursued · 1947

MovieWesternDrama

A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.

Original Music Composer

Jezebel

Jezebel · 1938

MovieDramaRomance

In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.

Original Music Composer

Adventures in Paradise

Adventures in Paradise · 1959

Adventures in Paradise

SeriesAction & AdventureDrama

Adventures in Paradise is an American television series created by James Michener which ran on ABC from 1959 until 1962, starring Gardner McKay as Adam Troy, the captain of the schooner Tiki III, which sailed the South Pacific looking for passengers and adventure. USA Network aired reruns of this series between 1984 and 1988. The plots deal with the romantic and detective stories of Korean War veteran Troy. The supporting cast, varying from season to season, features George Tobias, Guy Stockwell, and Linda Lawson.

Music Coordinator