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).