Max Steiner

Max Steiner

music department, composer, actor

Max Steiner was born on May 10, 1888 in Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. Max Steiner's big-screen debut came with The Bondman directed by Edgar Lewis in 1916. Max Steiner is known for The Dark at the Top of the Stairs directed by Delbert Mann, Robert Preston stars as Rubin Flood and Dorothy McGuire as Cora Flood. Max Steiner has got 9 awards and 26 nominations so far. The most recent award Max Steiner achieved is Online Film & Television Association. The upcoming new movie Max Steiner plays is Those Calloways which will be released on Nov 05, 1965.

Austrian composer Max Steiner achieved legendary status as the creator of hundreds of classic American film scores. He was born Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner in Vienna, Austria, the son of Marie Mizzi (Hasiba) and Gabor Steiner, an impresario, and the grandson of actor and theater director and manager Maximilian Steiner. His family was Jewish. As a child, he was astonishingly musically gifted, composing complex works as a teenager and completing the course of study at Vienna's Hochschule fuer Musik und Darstellende Kunst in only one year, at the age of sixteen. He studied under

  • Birthday

    May 10, 1888
  • Place of Birth

    Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

Known For

Awards

9 wins & 26 nominations

Online Film & Television Association
2000
Behind the Scenes
Winner - OFTA Film Hall of Fame
Walk of Fame
1975
Motion Picture
Winner - Star on the Walk of Fame
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