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