Max Steiner

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)