William Axt
Born: 1888-04-19 in New York City, New York, USA
Died: 1959-02-13
Known For: Sound
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William Axt (April 19, 1888 – February 13, 1959) was an American composer of nearly two hundred film scores. Born in New York City, Axt graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in The Bronx and studied at the National Conservatory of Music of America. He served as an assistant conductor for the Hammerstein Grand Opera Company and was the musical director for the Capitol Theatre in Manhattan before joining the music department at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1919. He earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Chicago in 1922.
Filmography
1949
- Adam's Rib ... (Additional Music)
- Dynamite ... (Original Music Composer)
1946
- Equestrian Quiz: What's Your I.Q.? No. 11 ... (Music)
1945
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood ... (Music)
1940
- Untamed ... (Music)
1939
- Sergeant Madden ... (Original Music Composer)
- Stand Up and Fight ... (Original Music Composer)
- Miracles for Sale ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Kid From Texas ... (Original Music Composer)
- Fast and Loose ... (Music Director)
- Tell No Tales ... (Music)
- Heroes at Leisure ... (Music)
1938
- Everybody Sing ... (Original Music Composer)
- Listen, Darling ... (Original Music Composer)
- Three Loves Has Nancy ... (Music)
- The Girl Downstairs ... (Music)
- The First Hundred Years ... (Music Score Producer)
- Yellow Jack ... (Original Music Composer)
- Fast Company ... (Music)
- Spring Madness ... (Music Score Producer)
- Rich Man, Poor Girl ... (Original Music Composer)
1937
- Espionage ... (Music)
- Between Two Women ... (Original Music Composer)
- Beg, Borrow or Steal ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Bad Man of Brimstone ... (Music)
- Parnell ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Last of Mrs. Cheyney ... (Original Music Composer)
- Thoroughbreds Don't Cry ... (Music)
- Big City ... (Original Music Composer)
- Under Cover of Night ... (Original Music Composer)
1936
- Libeled Lady ... (Original Music Composer)
- Suzy ... (Music)
- Three Godfathers ... (Original Music Composer)
- Tough Guy ... (Original Music Composer)
- Three Live Ghosts ... (Original Music Composer)
- Revolt of the Zombies ... (Music)
- Mad Holiday ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Unguarded Hour ... (Music Score Producer)
- Petticoat Fever ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Garden Murder Case ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Jonker Diamond ... (Music)
- Wanted - A Master ... (Music)
- Old Shep ... (Music)
1935
- Whipsaw ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Perfect Tribute ... (Music)
- Woman Wanted ... (Music)
- The Murder Man ... (Original Music Composer)
- It's in the Air ... (Original Music Composer)
- O'Shaughnessy's Boy ... (Music)
- Rendezvous ... (Original Music Composer)
- Buried Loot ... (Original Music Composer)
- Pitcairn Island Today ... (Music)
- Trained Hoofs ... (Music)
- Last of the Pagans ... (Original Music Composer)
- Memories and Melodies ... (Music)
1934
- Operator 13 ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Thin Man ... (Original Music Composer)
- Manhattan Melodrama ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Girl from Missouri ... (Original Music Composer)
- Sadie McKee ... (Original Music Composer)
- Men in White ... (Original Music Composer)
- Hide-Out ... (Music)
- Forsaking All Others ... (Original Music Composer)
- This Side of Heaven ... (Original Music Composer)
- A Wicked Woman ... (Original Music Composer)
- Stamboul Quest ... (Original Music Composer)
- Straight Is the Way ... (Original Music Composer)
- Death on the Diamond ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Mystery of Mr. X ... (Music)
- Goofy Movies Number Two ... (Original Music Composer)
- You Can't Buy Everything ... (Original Music Composer)
- Paris Interlude ... (Music)
1933
- Dinner at Eight ... (Original Music Composer)
- Midnight Mary ... (Original Music Composer)
- Gabriel Over the White House ... (Original Music Composer)
- Eskimo ... (Original Music Composer)
- Bombshell ... (Original Music Composer)
- Sons of the Desert ... (Music)
- Penthouse ... (Original Music Composer)
- Broadway to Hollywood ... (Music)
- Today We Live ... (Original Music Composer)
- Menu ... (Original Music Composer)
- Hold Your Man ... (Additional Music)
- Fast Workers ... (Original Music Composer)
- Whistling in the Dark ... (Music)
- The Secret of Madame Blanche ... (Original Music Composer)
- Storm at Daybreak ... (Original Music Composer)
- Reunion in Vienna ... (Original Music Composer)
- Should Ladies Behave ... (Music)
1932
- Grand Hotel ... (Additional Music)
- The Mask of Fu Manchu ... (Original Music Composer)
- Blondie of the Follies ... (Original Music Composer)
- As You Desire Me ... (Music)
- Faithless ... (Original Music Composer)
- Letty Lynton ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Wet Parade ... (Original Music Composer)
- Polly of the Circus ... (Music)
- Sea Spiders ... (Music)
- The Washington Masquerade ... (Music Score Producer)
- Microscopic Mysteries ... (Music)
1931
- Mata Hari ... (Music)
- Private Lives ... (Music)
- Possessed ... (Additional Music)
- Inspiration ... (Original Music Composer)
- Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) ... (Music)
- Sporting Blood ... (Music)
- Love-Tails of Morocco ... (Music)
- Wild and Woolly ... (Music)
1930
- Romance ... (Music)
- Doughboys ... (Music)
- When the Wind Blows ... (Music)
- The Woman Racket ... (Music)
- Chasing Rainbows ... (Original Music Composer)
- Call of the Flesh ... (Music)
- The Big Dog House ... (Music)
1929
- The Pagan ... (Music)
- Spite Marriage ... (Additional Music)
- Their Own Desire ... (Conductor)
- The Mysterious Island ... (Music)
- Navy Blues ... (Music)
- The Unholy Night ... (Original Music Composer)
- Tide of Empire ... (Music)
- Untamed ... (Music)
- Speedway ... (Original Music Composer)
- Our Modern Maidens ... (Music)
- It's a Great Life ... (Music)
- The Single Standard ... (Music)
- Where East Is East ... (Music)
1928
- The Man Who Laughs ... (Music)
- The Wind ... (Music)
- Show People ... (Original Music Composer)
- Our Dancing Daughters ... (Original Music Composer)
- While the City Sleeps ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Viking ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg ... (Original Music Composer)
- West of Zanzibar ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Masks of the Devil ... (Music)
1927
- Camille ... (Original Music Composer)
1926
- Don Juan ... (Original Music Composer)
- La Bohème ... (Original Music Composer)
- Bardelys the Magnificent ... (Original Music Composer)
1925
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Big Parade ... (Music)
1924
- Greed ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Navigator ... (Original Music Composer)
1923
- Scaramouche ... (Original Music Composer)
1919
- Madame DuBarry ... (Music)