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
- Stand Up and Fight ... (Original Music Composer)
- Miracles for Sale ... (Original Music Composer)
- Sergeant Madden ... (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 First Hundred Years ... (Music Score Producer)
- Yellow Jack ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Girl Downstairs ... (Music)
- Fast Company ... (Music)
- Spring Madness ... (Music Score Producer)
- Rich Man, Poor Girl ... (Original Music Composer)
1937
- Espionage ... (Music)
- Big City ... (Original Music Composer)
- Beg, Borrow or Steal ... (Original Music Composer)
- Parnell ... (Original Music Composer)
- Thoroughbreds Don't Cry ... (Music)
- Between Two Women ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Bad Man of Brimstone ... (Music)
- The Last of Mrs. Cheyney ... (Original Music Composer)
- Under Cover of Night ... (Original Music Composer)
1936
- Suzy ... (Music)
- Libeled Lady ... (Original Music Composer)
- Tough Guy ... (Original Music Composer)
- Three Godfathers ... (Original Music Composer)
- Revolt of the Zombies ... (Music)
- The Garden Murder Case ... (Original Music Composer)
- Three Live Ghosts ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Unguarded Hour ... (Music Score Producer)
- The Jonker Diamond ... (Music)
- Mad Holiday ... (Original Music Composer)
- Petticoat Fever ... (Original Music Composer)
- 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)
- Pitcairn Island Today ... (Music)
- Rendezvous ... (Original Music Composer)
- O'Shaughnessy's Boy ... (Music)
- Buried Loot ... (Original Music Composer)
- 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)
- Hide-Out ... (Music)
- Men in White ... (Original Music Composer)
- Forsaking All Others ... (Original Music Composer)
- Sadie McKee ... (Original Music Composer)
- Death on the Diamond ... (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)
- Paris Interlude ... (Music)
- The Mystery of Mr. X ... (Music)
- You Can't Buy Everything ... (Original Music Composer)
- Goofy Movies Number Two ... (Original Music Composer)
1933
- Dinner at Eight ... (Original Music Composer)
- Penthouse ... (Original Music Composer)
- Eskimo ... (Original Music Composer)
- Bombshell ... (Original Music Composer)
- Sons of the Desert ... (Music)
- Midnight Mary ... (Original Music Composer)
- Gabriel Over the White House ... (Original Music Composer)
- Broadway to Hollywood ... (Music)
- Today We Live ... (Original Music Composer)
- Hold Your Man ... (Additional Music)
- The Secret of Madame Blanche ... (Original Music Composer)
- Fast Workers ... (Original Music Composer)
- Whistling in the Dark ... (Music)
- Menu ... (Original Music Composer)
- Reunion in Vienna ... (Original Music Composer)
- Storm at Daybreak ... (Original Music Composer)
- Should Ladies Behave ... (Music)
1932
- Grand Hotel ... (Additional Music)
- The Mask of Fu Manchu ... (Original Music Composer)
- Faithless ... (Original Music Composer)
- Blondie of the Follies ... (Original Music Composer)
- Letty Lynton ... (Original Music Composer)
- As You Desire Me ... (Music)
- The Wet Parade ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Washington Masquerade ... (Music Score Producer)
- Polly of the Circus ... (Music)
- Sea Spiders ... (Music)
- 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)
- The Woman Racket ... (Music)
- When the Wind Blows ... (Music)
- Doughboys ... (Music)
- Chasing Rainbows ... (Original Music Composer)
- Call of the Flesh ... (Music)
- The Big Dog House ... (Music)
1929
- Spite Marriage ... (Additional Music)
- The Pagan ... (Music)
- Their Own Desire ... (Conductor)
- The Mysterious Island ... (Music)
- Navy Blues ... (Music)
- The Unholy Night ... (Original Music Composer)
- Untamed ... (Music)
- It's a Great Life ... (Music)
- Tide of Empire ... (Music)
- Speedway ... (Original Music Composer)
- Where East Is East ... (Music)
- The Single Standard ... (Music)
- Our Modern Maidens ... (Music)
1928
- Show People ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Man Who Laughs ... (Music)
- The Wind ... (Music)
- The Viking ... (Original Music Composer)
- While the City Sleeps ... (Original Music Composer)
- Our Dancing Daughters ... (Original Music Composer)
- West of Zanzibar ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Masks of the Devil ... (Music)
1927
- Camille ... (Original Music Composer)
1926
- Don Juan ... (Original Music Composer)
- Bardelys the Magnificent ... (Original Music Composer)
- La Bohème ... (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)