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1982
The Letter
(TV movie)
(composer: stock music)
1958-1964
77 Sunset Strip
(TV series)
(composer: stock music - 180 episodes)
–
The Target
(1964)
(composer: stock music - uncredited)
1962
Black Gold
(composer: stock music - uncredited)
1957-1962
Maverick
(TV series)
(composer: stock music - 118 episodes)
1959-1960
The Alaskans
(TV series)
(composer: stock music - 35 episodes)
–
Calico
(1960)
(composer: stock music - uncredited)
1958-1959
Sugarfoot
(TV series)
(composer: theme music - 5 episodes)
–
Wolf
(1959)
(composer: theme music)
1928
Noah's Ark
(composer: stock music - 1957 reissue - uncredited)
1955-1956
Kings Row
(TV series)
(composer: end theme - 7 episodes)
–
Ellie
(1955)
(composer: end theme)
1950
Backfire
(composer: additional music - uncredited)
1949
Homicide
(composer: stock music - uncredited)
1948
June Bride
(composer: stock music - uncredited)
1947
The Man I Love
(composer: additional music - uncredited, music adaptor)
1946
Night and Day
(composer: additional music, music adaptor: additional music)
1944
Janie
(composer: stock music - uncredited)
1944
Roaring Guns
(short)
(composer: stock music - uncredited)
1942
Spy Ship
(composer: stock music - uncredited)
1942
Juke Girl
(composer: stock music - uncredited)
1941
Knockout
(composer: stock music - uncredited)
1939
Three Sons
(composer: stock music - uncredited)
1938
Crime Ring
(composer: stock music - uncredited)
1938
Gun Law
(composer: stock music - uncredited)
1937
Wise Girl
(composer: stock music - uncredited)
1937
Hideaway
(composer: stock music - uncredited)
1937
Sea Devils
(composer: stock music - uncredited)
1936
M'Liss
(composer: stock music - uncredited)
1936
Chatterbox
(composer: stock music - uncredited)
1935
Freckles
(composer: stock music - uncredited)
1935
Top Hat
(composer: additional music - uncredited, musical director)
1935
Hot Tip
(composer: stock music - uncredited)
1935
Laddie
(composer: stock music - uncredited)
1935
Roberta
(composer: additional music - uncredited, musical director)
1934
By Your Leave
(composer: stock music - uncredited, musical director)
1934
Gridiron Flash
(composer: stock music - uncredited, musical director)
1934
Bachelor Bait
(composer: stock music - uncredited, musical director)
1934
Spitfire
(composer: stock music - uncredited, musical director)
1934
Two Alone
(composer: stock music - uncredited, musical director)
1933
The Son of Kong
(composer: stock music - uncredited, conductor - uncredited)
1933
If I Were Free
(composer: stock music - uncredited, musical director)
1933
After Tonight
(composer: stock music - uncredited, musical director)
1933
Ace of Aces
(composer: stock music - uncredited, musical director)
1933
Ann Vickers
(composer: stock music - uncredited, musical director)
1933
Midshipman Jack
(composer: stock music - uncredited, musical director)
1933
Rafter Romance
(composer: stock music - uncredited, musical director)
1933
One Man's Journey
(composer: stock music - uncredited, musical adaptation - uncredited, musical director)
1933
Blind Adventure
(composer: stock music - uncredited, musical director)
1933
Before Dawn
(composer: stock music - uncredited, musical director)
1933
Double Harness
(composer: stock music - uncredited, musical director)
1933
Flying Devils
(composer: stock music - uncredited, musical director)
1933
Bed of Roses
(composer: stock music - uncredited, music director)
1933
Cross Fire
(composer: stock music - uncredited)
1933
Son of the Border
(composer: stock music - uncredited, musical director - uncredited)
1933
Scarlet River
(composer: stock music - uncredited, musical director - uncredited)
1933/I
Topaze
(composer: stock music - uncredited, musical director)
1933
No Other Woman
(composer: stock music - uncredited, music director)
1932
Rockabye
(composer: stock music - uncredited, music director)
1932
Hell's Highway
(composer: stock music - uncredited, music director)
1932
The Age of Consent
(composer: stock music - uncredited, musical director - uncredited)
1932
Ghost Valley
(composer: stock music - uncredited, musical director - as Max R. Steiner)
1932
Girl Crazy
(composer: additional music - uncredited, musical director)
1932
Ladies of the Jury
(composer: title music - uncredited, musical director - uncredited)
1931
The Sin Ship
(composer: stock music - uncredited, musical director - uncredited)
1931
The Royal Bed
(composer: stock music - uncredited, musical director - uncredited)
2009
Bandslam
(writer: "Theme from 'tt0053320'")
2009
30 Rock
(TV series)
–
The Bubble
(2009)
(music: "Theme from A Summer Place" - uncredited)
2008
Crawford at Warners
(video documentary short)
("Work", "Mildred", "Flamingo", "Dangerous")
2007
Daymaker
(writer: "A Summer Place")
2007
Surf's Up
(writer: "Theme from 'A Summer Place'")
2006
Uranya
(writer: "Theme from 'A Summer Place'")
2005
King Kong
(writer: "Fanfares Nos. 1, 2 and 3, The Sailors, The Aeroplane, Elevated Sequence, Jungle Dance, The Escape", "Aboriginal Sacrifice Dance")
1997
The Locusts
(writer: "Theme from 'A Summer Place'")
1997
Con Air
(writer: "Theme From 'A Summer Place'" instrumental)
1997
Selena
(music: "A Summer Place" 1959)
1994
Cobb
(writer: "Theme from A Summer Place")
1991
Here's Looking at You, Warner Bros.
(TV documentary)
(music: "It Can't Be Wrong" - uncredited / arranger: "German National Anthem Das Lied der Deutschen" 1841 - uncredited, "La Marseillaise" 1792 - uncredited)
1989
UHF
(writer: "TARA'S THEME")
1989
Batman
(writer: "Theme From A Summer Place")
1989
Screen Two
(TV series)
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Leaving
(1989)
(music: "Incidental Music" - uncredited)
1987
Orphans
(writer: "THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE")
1985
The Goonies
(writer: "Theme from 'The Adventures of Don Juan'" - uncredited)
1971
The Omega Man
(music: "Theme from A Summer Place" - uncredited)
1961
Susan Slade
(music: "Theme from A Summer Place" - uncredited / arranger: "Lullaby" - uncredited)
1960
The Crowded Sky
(music: "It Can't Be Wrong" - uncredited, "Theme from 'A Summer Place'" - uncredited)
1959
Up Periscope
(music: "We Watch the Skyways" - uncredited)
1957
Band of Angels
(music: "Band of Angels", "band of Angels" - uncredited)
1956
Come Next Spring
(music: "Come Next Spring", "Come Next Spring" - uncredited)
1955
Battle Cry
(music: "Honey-Babe" - uncredited)
1947
Cheyenne
(music: "Going Back to Old Cheyenne" - uncredited)
1944
Plane Daffy
(short)
(music: "It Can't Be Wrong" - uncredited)
1944
Hare Ribbin'
(short)
(music: "It Can't Be Wrong" - uncredited)
1943
Fin n' Catty
(short)
(music: "It Can't Be Wrong" - uncredited)
1942
Casablanca
(arranger: "La Marseillaise" 1792 - uncredited, "Die Wacht am Rhein" 1854 - uncredited, "Das Lied der Deutschen" 1841 - uncredited)
1941
Dive Bomber
(music: "We Watch the Skyways" - uncredited)
1941
Citizen Kane
(music: "Theme" - uncredited / arranger: "Song Without Words, Op. 62 No.3 Funeral March" 1842-1844 - uncredited)
1939
Four Wives
(music: "Symphonie Moderne" 1939 - uncredited)
1938
Jezebel
(music: "Waltz" - uncredited)
1937
Submarine D-1
(music: "We Watch the Skyways" published 1941 - uncredited)
1937
Danger Patrol
(music: "I Can't Waltz Alone" 1935 - uncredited, "Morning Glory" 1933 - uncredited)
1937
Behind the Headlines
(music: "Fatal Hour" - uncredited, "Midnight In Manhattan" - uncredited, "Speakeasy" - uncredited)
1936
The Garden of Allah
(writer: "No One But God and I Know What is in My Heart" 1936 - uncredited)
1935
Alice Adams
(music: "I CAN'T WALTZ ALONE" 1935 - uncredited)
1935
The Three Musketeers
(music: "Song of the Musketeers" - uncredited / lyrics: "Song of the Musketeers" - uncredited)
1934
Stingaree
(music: "I Wish I Were a Fisherman" 1934 - uncredited, "Once You're Mine" 1934 - uncredited)
1934
This Man Is Mine
(arranger: "Etude in E Major" 1832 - uncredited, "Nocturne" - uncredited)
1934
Long Lost Father
(music: "It Isn't So Much That I Wouldn't" 1933 - uncredited / lyrics: "It Isn't So Much That I Wouldn't" 1933 - uncredited)
1931
Traveling Husbands
(music: There's a Sob in My Heart" - uncredited / lyrics: There's a Sob in My Heart" - uncredited)
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Personal Details
Other Works:
He conducted in England in 1904, and in Paris in 1911. After arriving in the US in 1914, he conducted
Broadway musicals.
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Alternate Names:
Max R. Steiner
Height:
5' 4" (1.63 m)
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Personal Quote:
I never run out of tunes. Music is always in my mind. Sometimes I wake up at three in the morning and begin tossing. My wife will say, 'Daddy, why don't you write it down?' So I get up, put it on a paper, and go back to sleep.
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Trivia:
Is entombed in The Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California, near famous film composers
Alfred Newman ,
Isham Jones ,
Rudolf Friml ,
Carrie Jacobs Bond , and many of the stars of the films for whom he composed music.
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