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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.
Selected filmography
- 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)