Max Steiner (
May 10,
1888 -
1971) was Austrian-American film composer, born Maximillian Raoul Steiner. Composing child prodigy; grandson of
Maximilian Steiner (1839-1880), influential manager of Vienna's Theater an der Wien. Emigrated to the United States in 1924. Scored more than 50 Hollywood films.
- Cimarron (1931),
- King Kong (1933),
- The Informer (Academy Award, 1935),
- A Star is Born[?] (1937),
- Gone with the Wind (1939),
- Casablanca (1942),
- Now, Yoyager[?] (Academy Award, 1942),
- Since You Went Away (1944),
- The Big Sleep (1946),
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1947),
- The Caine Mutiny (1954).