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
- Fast and Loose ... (Music Director)
- The Kid From Texas ... (Original Music Composer)
- Tell No Tales ... (Music)
- Stand Up and Fight ... (Original Music Composer)
- Miracles for Sale ... (Original Music Composer)
- Heroes at Leisure ... (Music)
- Sergeant Madden ... (Original Music Composer)
1938
- Listen, Darling ... (Original Music Composer)
- Fast Company ... (Music)
- Everybody Sing ... (Original Music Composer)
- Spring Madness ... (Music Score Producer)
- Yellow Jack ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Girl Downstairs ... (Music)
- Three Loves Has Nancy ... (Music)
- Rich Man, Poor Girl ... (Original Music Composer)
- The First Hundred Years ... (Music Score Producer)
1937
- Big City ... (Original Music Composer)
- Parnell ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Last of Mrs. Cheyney ... (Original Music Composer)
- Between Two Women ... (Original Music Composer)
- Thoroughbreds Don't Cry ... (Music)
- Under Cover of Night ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Bad Man of Brimstone ... (Music)
- Espionage ... (Music)
- Beg, Borrow or Steal ... (Original Music Composer)
1936
- Tough Guy ... (Original Music Composer)
- Suzy ... (Music)
- Petticoat Fever ... (Original Music Composer)
- Three Godfathers ... (Original Music Composer)
- Libeled Lady ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Garden Murder Case ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Jonker Diamond ... (Music)
- Three Live Ghosts ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Unguarded Hour ... (Music Score Producer)
- Old Shep ... (Music)
- Wanted - A Master ... (Music)
- Revolt of the Zombies ... (Music)
- Mad Holiday ... (Original Music Composer)
1935
- Whipsaw ... (Original Music Composer)
- Rendezvous ... (Original Music Composer)
- Trained Hoofs ... (Music)
- Woman Wanted ... (Music)
- The Murder Man ... (Original Music Composer)
- Buried Loot ... (Original Music Composer)
- It's in the Air ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Perfect Tribute ... (Music)
- O'Shaughnessy's Boy ... (Music)
- Last of the Pagans ... (Original Music Composer)
- Memories and Melodies ... (Music)
- Pitcairn Island Today ... (Music)
1934
- Operator 13 ... (Original Music Composer)
- Sadie McKee ... (Original Music Composer)
- Manhattan Melodrama ... (Original Music Composer)
- Stamboul Quest ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Girl from Missouri ... (Original Music Composer)
- This Side of Heaven ... (Original Music Composer)
- Men in White ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Mystery of Mr. X ... (Music)
- The Thin Man ... (Original Music Composer)
- Straight Is the Way ... (Original Music Composer)
- You Can't Buy Everything ... (Original Music Composer)
- A Wicked Woman ... (Original Music Composer)
- Goofy Movies Number Two ... (Original Music Composer)
- Death on the Diamond ... (Original Music Composer)
- Forsaking All Others ... (Original Music Composer)
- Hide-Out ... (Music)
- Paris Interlude ... (Music)
1933
- Fast Workers ... (Original Music Composer)
- Midnight Mary ... (Original Music Composer)
- Bombshell ... (Original Music Composer)
- Sons of the Desert ... (Music)
- Penthouse ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Secret of Madame Blanche ... (Original Music Composer)
- Dinner at Eight ... (Original Music Composer)
- Broadway to Hollywood ... (Music)
- Hold Your Man ... (Additional Music)
- Today We Live ... (Original Music Composer)
- Storm at Daybreak ... (Original Music Composer)
- Whistling in the Dark ... (Music)
- Reunion in Vienna ... (Original Music Composer)
- Gabriel Over the White House ... (Original Music Composer)
- Menu ... (Original Music Composer)
- Should Ladies Behave ... (Music)
1932
- Faithless ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Mask of Fu Manchu ... (Original Music Composer)
- Polly of the Circus ... (Music)
- The Washington Masquerade ... (Music Score Producer)
- As You Desire Me ... (Music)
- Blondie of the Follies ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Wet Parade ... (Original Music Composer)
- Microscopic Mysteries ... (Music)
- Letty Lynton ... (Original Music Composer)
- Sea Spiders ... (Music)
1931
- Inspiration ... (Original Music Composer)
- Sporting Blood ... (Music)
- Mata Hari ... (Music)
- Private Lives ... (Music)
- Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) ... (Music)
- Wild and Woolly ... (Music)
- Love-Tails of Morocco ... (Music)
1930
- Chasing Rainbows ... (Original Music Composer)
- Doughboys ... (Music)
- When the Wind Blows ... (Music)
- Call of the Flesh ... (Music)
- Romance ... (Music)
- The Woman Racket ... (Music)
- The Big Dog House ... (Music)
1929
- Navy Blues ... (Music)
- Spite Marriage ... (Additional Music)
- Untamed ... (Music)
- Speedway ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Mysterious Island ... (Music)
- The Single Standard ... (Music)
- Our Modern Maidens ... (Music)
- Where East Is East ... (Music)
- Tide of Empire ... (Music)
- The Unholy Night ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Pagan ... (Music)
1928
- The Wind ... (Music)
- The Viking ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Man Who Laughs ... (Music)
- The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg ... (Original Music Composer)
- Our Dancing Daughters ... (Original Music Composer)
- West of Zanzibar ... (Original Music Composer)
- Show People ... (Original Music Composer)
- While the City Sleeps ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Masks of the Devil ... (Music)
1927
- Camille ... (Original Music Composer)
1926
- La Bohème ... (Original Music Composer)
- Bardelys the Magnificent ... (Original Music Composer)
- Don Juan ... (Original Music Composer)
1925
- The Big Parade ... (Music)
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ... (Original Music Composer)
1924
- The Navigator ... (Original Music Composer)
- Greed ... (Original Music Composer)
1923
- Scaramouche ... (Original Music Composer)
1919
- Madame DuBarry ... (Music)