Maximilian Raoul "Max" Steiner (May 10, 1888December 28, 1971) was an Austrian-born American composer of music for theatre and films. He was a child prodigy who conducted his first operetta when he was twelve and became a full-time professional, either composing, arranging or conducting, when he was fifteen.
Steiner composed over 300 film scores with RKO and Warner Brothers, and was nominated for 24 Academy Awards, winning three: The Informer (1935), Now, Voyager (1942), and Since You Went Away (1944). Besides his Oscar-winning scores, Steiner's other works include King Kong (1933), Little Women (1933), Jezebel (1938), Casablanca (1942), The Searchers (1956), A Summer Place (1959), and the film score for which he is possibly best remembered, Gone with the Wind (1939).
He was also the first recipient of the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, which he won for his score to Life with Father. Steiner was a frequent collaborator with some of the best known film directors active in the United States, including Michael Curtiz, John Ford, Howard Hawks, William Dieterle, William Wyler, Raoul Walsh, John Huston, Irving Pichel, King Vidor, and Frank Capra.
(as per AFI's database, unless otherwise noted)[1]
All orchestration notes, additional composition, stock music, and main/end title notes come from the Max Steiner filmography in Film Composers in America.
The following list only comprises those films for which Steiner composed the score, or was credited as providing orchestration for. In addition to the films included in this list, Steiner also contributed to hundreds of other films for which his writing provided the stock music.
| Year | Film | Director | Role | Production Company | Awards | Notes | Orchestrator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1929 | Rio Rita | Luther Reed | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Uncredited | ||
| 1930 | Lynn Shores | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Uncredited;[2] score for a foreign version of the 1929 film; co-written with Roy Webb[3] | |||
| 1930 | Side Street | Malcolm St. Clair | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Uncredited; score for a foreign version of the 1929 film; co-written with Roy Webb | ||
| 1930 | Herbert Brenon | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Uncredited; Steiner composed only the main title | |||
| 1930 | Dixiana | Luther Reed | Orchestration | RKO Radio Pictures | First screen credit | ||
| 1931 | Are These Our Children? | Wesley Ruggles | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | |||
| 1931 | Bachelor Apartment | Lowell Sherman | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Uncredited; stock music also used | ||
| 1931 | Beau Ideal | Herbert Brenon | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Uncredited;[4] composed new main and end titles only (other music was stock) | ||
| 1931 | Cimarron | Wesley Ruggles | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Uncredited | ||
| 1931 | Consolation Marriage | Paul Sloane | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Gerstenberger | ||
| 1931 | Cracked Nuts | Edward F. Cline | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | [5] | Marquardt | |
| 1931 | Fanny Foley Herself | Melville W. Brown | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Uncredited | ||
| 1931 | Friends and Lovers | Victor Schertzinger | Film score (co-written) | RKO Radio Pictures | screen credit states the score was co-written with Victor Schertzinger, but score and cue sheet show no signs of Steiner's work.[6] | ||
| 1931 | Richard Boleslawski | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | ||||
| 1931 | High Stakes | Lowell Sherman | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Uncredited;[7] stock music also used | ||
| 1931 | Kept Husbands | Lloyd Bacon | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Uncredited; composed new main and end titles only | ||
| 1931 | Peach O'Reno | William A. Seiter | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Uncredited | R. Heindorf | |
| 1931 | J. Walter Ruben | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Uncredited | E. Ross | ||
| 1931 | William James Craft | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Uncredited | |||
| 1931 | Secret Service | J. Walter Ruben | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Uncredited | ||
| 1931 | Transgression | Herbert Brenon | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Uncredited | ||
| 1931 | Young Donovan's Kid | Fred Niblo | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Uncredited; composed new main title only | ||
| 1931 | Way Back Home | William A. Seiter | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Uncredited | Gerstenberger | |
| 1932 | Edward H. Griffith | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | ||||
| 1932 | George Cukor | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Main title by Harling | Kaun | ||
| 1932 | Bird of Paradise | King Vidor | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Kaun and R. Bassett | ||
| 1932 | William Wellman | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Kaun | |||
| 1932 | Girl Crazy | William A. Seiter | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | additional composition | ||
| 1932 | Girl of the Rio | Herbert Brenon | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Uncredited | Gerstenberger | |
| 1932 | Gregory LaCava | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | ||||
| 1932 | Is My Face Red? | William A. Seiter | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | R. Heindorf and Kaun | ||
| 1932 | Ladies of the Jury | Lowell Sherman | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Uncredited; composed main title and stock music | R. Heindorf | |
| 1932 | George Archainbaud | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Uncredited | |||
| 1932 | Men of Chance | George Archainbaud | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Uncredited | Gerstenberger | |
| 1932 | Richard Connell | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Kaun and Gerstenberger | |||
| 1932 | George Archainbaud | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | composed main title | |||
| 1932 | Roar of the Dragon | Wesley Ruggles | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Kaun and Gerstenberger | ||
| 1932 | State's Attorney | George Archainbaud | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Uncredited | R. Heindorf | |
| 1932 | Symphony of Six Million | Gregory La Cava | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Kaun | ||
| 1932 | Thirteen Women | George Archainbaud | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Kaun and Gerstenberger | ||
| 1932 | What Price Hollywood? | George Cukor | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Kaun | ||
| 1933 | Robert F. Hill | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | ||||
| 1933 | Christopher Strong | Dorothy Arzner | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | additional composition by Webb and orchestrated by Sharpe | Kaun | |
| 1933 | Diplomaniacs | William A. Seiter | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | with Webb | Kaune and Sharpe | |
| 1933 | King Kong | Merian C. Cooper | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Kaun | ||
| 1933 | Little Women | George Cukor | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Kaun | ||
| 1933 | Lucky Devils | Ralph Ince | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | |||
| 1933 | Melody Cruise | Mark Sandrich | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | |||
| 1933 | Ernest B. Schoedsack | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Kaun | |||
| 1933 | Morning Glory | Lowell Sherman | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Kaun | ||
| 1933 | Alfred Santell | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | additional composition for Webb's score | |||
| 1933 | Scarlet River | Otto Brower | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Uncredited | ||
| 1933 | John Cromwell | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | ||||
| 1933 | Son of Kong | Ernest B. Schoedsack | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Kaun | ||
| 1933 | Sweepings | John Cromwell | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Kaun | ||
| 1934 | Philip Moeller | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Kaun | |||
| 1934 | John Cromwell | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | ||||
| 1934 | Mark Sandrich | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Nominated for Academy Award for Best Original Score[8] | |||
| 1934 | Alfred Santell | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Kaun | |||
| 1934 | Richard Wallace | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Kaun | |||
| 1934 | John Ford | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Nominated for Academy Award for Best Original Score | Kaun | ||
| 1934 | Murder on the Blackboard | George Archainbaud | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | composed with Kaun | ||
| 1934 | Of Human Bondage | John Cromwell | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Kaun | ||
| 1934 | Stingaree | William A. Seiter | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Kaun | ||
| 1935 | Break of Hearts | Philip Moeller | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Kaun | ||
| 1935 | I Dream Too Much | John Cromwell | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | |||
| 1935 | John Ford | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Won the Academy Award for Best Original Score[9] | Kaun and de Packh | ||
| 1935 | Roberta | William A. Seiter | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | |||
| 1935 | She | Irving Pichel Lansing C. Holden | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | [10] | Kaun, de Packh, and E. Powell | |
| 1935 | Star of Midnight | Stephen Roberts | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | includes stock music | ||
| 1935 | Irving Pichel Lansing C. Holden | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | Kaun | |||
| 1935 | Alice Adams | George Stevens | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | with Webb | ||
| 1936 | Michael Curtiz | Film score | Warner Bros. | Hugo Friedhofer, Parrish, de Packh, and R. Bassett | |||
| 1936 | Follow the Fleet | Mark Sandrich | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | |||
| 1936 | Richard Boleslawski | Film score | Selznick International Pictures | Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score[11] | [12] | Kaun, E. Powell, R. Bassett, Parrish, and Friedhofer | |
| 1936 | Little Lord Fauntleroy | John Cromwell | Film score | Selznick International Pictures | Kaun | ||
| 1937 | First Lady | Stanley Logan | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer | ||
| 1937 | God's Country and the Woman | William Keighley | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer | ||
| 1937 | Green Light | Frank Borzage | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer | ||
| 1937 | Kid Galahad | Michael Curtiz | Film score | Warner Bros. | with Heinz Roemheld | ||
| 1937 | William Dieterle | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer | |||
| 1937 | Slim | Ray Enright | Film score | Warner Bros. | with Roemheld | Friedhofer | |
| 1937 | William A. Wellman | Film score | Selznick International Pictures | Kaun, Parrish, and Friedhofer | |||
| 1937 | Submarine D-1 | Lloyd Bacon | Film score | Cosmopolitan Productions | Friedhofer | ||
| 1937 | That Certain Woman | Edmund Goulding | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer | ||
| 1937 | Tovarich | Anatole Litvak | Film score | Warner Bros. | First use of Steiner's well-known fanfare for the "Warner Bros. Presents" screen | Friedhofer | |
| 1938 | Norman Taurog | Film score | Selznick International Pictures | [13] | Parrish and Kaun | ||
| 1938 | Anatole Litvak | Film score | Warner Bros. | Parrish | |||
| 1938 | Angels with Dirty Faces | Michael Curtiz | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer | ||
| 1938 | Crime School | Lewis Seiler | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer and Parrish | ||
| 1938 | Edmund Goulding | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer | |||
| 1938 | Four Daughters | Michael Curtiz | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer | ||
| 1938 | Gold Is Where You Find It | Michael Curtiz | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer and Kaun | ||
| 1938 | Jezebel | William Wyler | Film score | Warner Bros. | Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score[14] | Friedhofer | |
| 1938 | Anatole Litvak | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer | |||
| 1938 | White Banners | Edmund Goulding | Film score | Warner Bros. | |||
| 1939 | Confessions of a Nazi Spy | Anatole Litvak | Film score | Warner Bros. | uncredited at Steiner's request[15] | ||
| 1939 | Dark Victory | Edmund Goulding | Film score | Warner Bros. | Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score[16] | Friedhofer | |
| 1939 | Daughters Courageous | Michael Curtiz | Film score | Warner Bros. | R. Heindorf | ||
| 1939 | Dodge City | Michael Curtiz | Film score | Warner Bros. | additional composition by A. Deutsch | Friedhofer | |
| 1939 | Dust Be My Destiny | Lewis Seiler | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer | ||
| 1939 | Each Dawn I Die | William Keighley | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer | ||
| 1939 | Four Wives | Michael Curtiz | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer and R. Heindorf | ||
| 1939 | Gone with the Wind | Victor Fleming | Film score | Selznick International Pictures Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score | additional composition by Friedhofer, A. Deutsch, Roemheld | Friedhofer, Kaun, R. Bassett, Deutsch, and others |
| 1939 | Intermezzo: A Love Story | Gregory Ratoff | Film score | Selznick International Pictures | additional composition by R. Bennett | R. Bennett, Friedhofer, Raab, de Packh, R. Bassett, and Salinger | |
| 1939 | Lloyd Bacon | Film score | Warner Bros. | additional composition by A. Deutsch and Friedhofer | Friedhofer, A. Deutsch, Parrish, and Cutter | ||
| 1939 | Edmund Goulding | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer | |||
| 1939 | They Made Me a Criminal | Busby Berkeley | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer | ||
| 1939 | We Are Not Alone | Edmund Goulding | Film score | First National Pictures | Friedhofer | ||
| Year | Film | Director | Role | Production Company | Awards | Notes | Orchestrator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | All This, and Heaven Too | Anatole Litvak | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer | ||
| 1940 | City for Conquest | Anatole Litvak | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer and R. Heindorf | ||
| 1940 | William Dieterle | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer | |||
| 1940 | Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet | William Dieterle | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer | ||
| 1940 | William Wyler | Film score | Warner Bros. | Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score[17] | Friedhofer | ||
| 1940 | Santa Fe Trail | Michael Curtiz | Film score | Warner Bros. | additional composition by Friedhofer | Friedhofer | |
| 1940 | Virginia City | Michael Curtiz | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer | ||
| 1941 | William Keighley | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer and R. Heindorf | |||
| 1941 | Dive Bomber | Michael Curtiz | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer | ||
| 1941 | Edmund Goulding | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer and R. Heindorf | |||
| 1941 | One Foot in Heaven | Irving Rapper | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer | ||
| 1941 | Sergeant York | Howard Hawks | Film score | Warner Bros. | Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score[18] | Friedhofer | |
| 1941 | Shining Victory | Irving Rapper | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer | ||
| 1942 | Captains of the Clouds | Michael Curtiz | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer and Kaun | ||
| 1942 | Casablanca | Michael Curtiz | Film score | Warner Bros. | Nominated for Academy Award for Best Original Score[19] | Friedhofer | |
| 1942 | Desperate Journey | Raoul Walsh | Film score | Warner Bros. | additional composition by Friedhofer | Friedhofer | |
| 1942 | They Died with Their Boots On | Raoul Walsh | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer and Kaun | ||
| 1942 | Irving Rapper | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer | |||
| 1942 | In This Our Life | John Huston | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer | ||
| 1942 | Now, Voyager | Irving Rapper | Film score | Warner Bros. | Won the Academy Award for Best Original Score[20] | Friedhofer | |
| 1943 | The Battle of Britain | Frank Capra | Original music compositions | U.S. War Department | Documentary; with Lava and H. Jackson | ||
| 1943 | Mission to Moscow | Michael Curtiz | Film score | Warner Bros. | Kaun and Friedhofer | ||
| 1943 | Watch on the Rhine | Herman Shumlin | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer | ||
| 1943 | This is the Army | Michael Curtiz | Film score | Hal B. Wallis and Jack L. Warner | with Ray Heindorf | ||
| 1944 | Irving Rapper | Film score | Warner Bros. | Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score[21] | Kaun | ||
| 1944 | Arsenic and Old Lace | Frank Capra | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer | ||
| 1944 | Jean Negulesco | Film score | Warner Bros. | additional composition by Friedhofer | Raab | ||
| 1944 | Passage to Marseille | Michael Curtiz | Film score | Warner Bros. | Raab | ||
| 1944 | Since You Went Away | John Cromwell | Film score | Selznick International Pictures | Won the Academy Award for Best Original Score | Grau, Raab, Moross, Zador | |
| 1944 | Up in Arms | Elliott Nugent | Film score | Samuel Goldwyn Productions | [22] additional composition by H. Jackson | ||
| 1945 | Irving Rapper | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer | |||
| 1945 | Mildred Pierce | Michael Curtiz | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer | ||
| 1945 | Rhapsody in Blue | Irving Rapper | Film score | Warner Bros. | Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score[23] | Friedhofer | |
| 1945 | Roughly Speaking | Michael Curtiz | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer | ||
| 1945 | San Antonio | David Butler | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer | ||
| 1945 | Saratoga Trunk | Sam Wood | Film score | Warner Bros. | additional composition by Lava | Kaun | |
| 1946 | Robert Florey | Film score | Warner Bros. | [24] | Cutter | ||
| 1946 | Howard Hawks | Film score | Warner Bros. | Bucharoff | |||
| 1946 | Cloak and Dagger | Fritz Lang | Film score | United States Pictures | Friedhofer | ||
| 1946 | My Reputation | Curtis Bernhardt | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer | ||
| 1946 | Night and Day | Michael Curtiz | Film score | Warner Bros. | Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score[25] | Friedhofer | |
| 1946 | One More Tomorrow | Peter Godfrey | Film score | Warner Bros. | main title by Friedhofer | ||
| 1946 | Curtis Bernhardt | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer | |||
| 1946 | Tomorrow Is Forever | Irving Pichel | Film score | International Pictures | Kaun | ||
| 1946 | Her Kind of Man | Frederick De Cordova | Film score | Warner Bros. | additional composition for Waxman's score | ||
| 1947 | Cheyenne | Raoul Walsh | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer | ||
| 1947 | Deep Valley | Jean Negulesco | Film score | Warner Bros. | Cutter | ||
| 1947 | Life with Father | Michael Curtiz | Film score | Warner Bros. | Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score | Cutter | |
| 1947 | Love and Learn | Michael Curtiz | Film score | Warner Bros. | Cutter | ||
| 1947 | Raoul Walsh | Film score | Warner Bros. | Friedhofer | |||
| 1947 | My Wild Irish Rose | David Butler | Film score | Warner Bros. | Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score[26] | Cutter | |
| 1947 | Pursued | Raoul Walsh | Film score | Warner Bros. | Cutter | ||
| 1947 | Vincent Sherman | Film score | Warner Bros. | Cutter | |||
| 1947 | Irving Rapper | Film score | Warner Bros. | Cutter | |||
| 1948 | Adventures of Don Juan | Vincent Sherman | Film score | Warner Bros. | Cutter | ||
| 1948 | April Showers | James V. Kern | Film score | Warner Bros. | additional composition for R. Heindorf's score | ||
| 1948 | Peter Godfrey | Film score | Warner Bros. | Cutter | |||
| 1948 | Fighter Squadron | Raoul Walsh | Film score | Warner Bros. | Cutter | ||
| 1948 | Johnny Belinda | Jean Negulesco | Film score | Warner Bros. | Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score[27] | Cutter | |
| 1948 | Key Largo | John Huston | Film score | Warner Bros. | Cutter | ||
| 1948 | My Girl Tisa | Elliott Nugent | Film score | Warner Bros. | Cutter | ||
| 1948 | Silver River | Raoul Walsh | Film score | Warner Bros. | Cutter | ||
| 1948 | John Huston | Film score | Warner Bros. | Cutter | |||
| 1948 | Winter Meeting | Bretaigne Windust | Film score | Warner Bros. | Cutter | ||
| 1948 | Peter Godfrey | Film score | Warner Bros. | Cutter | |||
| 1949 | Beyond the Forest | King Vidor | Film score | Warner Bros. | Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score[28] | Cutter | |
| 1949 | Flamingo Road | Michael Curtiz | Film score | Warner Bros. | Cutter | ||
| 1949 | King Vidor | Film score | Warner Bros. | Cutter | |||
| 1949 | Delmer Daves | Film score | Warner Bros. | Cutter | |||
| 1949 | Michael Curtiz | Film score | Warner Bros. | Cutter | |||
| 1949 | Mrs. Mike | Louis King | Film score | Nassour Pictures Regal Films | additional composition by Lava | ||
| 1949 | South of St. Louis | Ray Enright | Film score | Warner Bros. | Cutter | ||
| 1949 | White Heat | Raoul Walsh | Film score | Warner Bros. | Cutter | ||
| 1949 | Without Honor | Irving Pichel | Film score | Warner Bros. | Cutter | ||
Cutter orchestrated all of the movie scores that Steiner was the sole author of in the 1950s.
| Year | Film | Director | Role | Production Company | Awards | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Michael Curtiz | Film score | Warner Bros. | [29] additional composition by H. Jackson | ||
| 1950 | Caged | John Cromwell | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1950 | Dallas | Stuart Heisler | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1950 | Jacques Tourneur | Film score | Warner Bros. | Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score[30] | ||
| 1950 | Irving Rapper | Film score | Warner Bros. | |||
| 1950 | Rocky Mountain | William Keighley | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1950 | Backfire | Vincent Sherman | additional composition | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1950 | Young Man with a Horn | Michael Curtiz | Film score | Warner Bros. | main theme by R. Heindorf | |
| 1951 | Close to My Heart | William Keighley | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1951 | Distant Drums | Raoul Walsh | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1951 | Force of Arms | Michael Curtiz | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1951 | I Was a Communist for the FBI | Gordon Douglas | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1951 | Jim Thorpe – All-American | Michael Curtiz | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1951 | Lightning Strikes Twice | King Vidor | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1951 | On Moonlight Bay | Roy Del Ruth | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1951 | Operation Pacific | George Waggner | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1951 | Raton Pass | Edwin L. Marin | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1951 | Sugarfoot | Edwin L. Marin | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1951 | Come Fill the Cup | Gordon Douglas | additional composition | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1952 | Michael Curtiz | Film score | Warner Bros. | |||
| 1952 | Louis King | Film score | Warner Bros. | |||
| 1952 | Mara Maru | Gordon Douglas | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1952 | John Brahm | Film score | Warner Bros. | Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score[31] | ||
| 1952 | Room for One More | Norman Taurog | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1952 | Springfield Rifle | André de Toth | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1952 | Gordon Douglas | Film score | Warner Bros. | |||
| 1952 | I'll See You in My Dreams | Michael Curtiz | additional composition | Warner Bros. | with R. Heindorf | |
| 1952 | This Woman is Dangerous | Felix E. Feist | additional composition | Warner Bros. | with Buttolph | |
| 1953 | By the Light of the Silvery Moon | David Butler | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1953 | Gordon Douglas | Film score | Warner Bros. | |||
| 1953 | H. Bruce Humberstone | Film score | Warner Bros. | |||
| 1953 | So Big | Robert Wise | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1953 | So This Is Love | Gordon Douglas | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1953 | Trouble Along the Way | Michael Curtiz | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1953 | This is Cinerama | Merian C. Cooper | Film score | Cinerama Releasing Corp. | additional composition by Webb, Sawtell, Shuken, and Cutner | |
| 1953 | House of Wax | Andre DeToth | Trailer | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1954 | Michael Curtiz | Film score | Warner Bros. | |||
| 1954 | Edward Dmytryk | Film score | Columbia Pictures | Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score[32] | ||
| 1954 | King Richard and the Crusaders | David Butler | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1955 | Battle Cry | Raoul Walsh | Film score | Warner Bros. | Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score[33] | |
| 1955 | Helen of Troy | Robert Wise | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1955 | Illegal | Lewis Allen | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1955 | Frank Lloyd | Film score | Republic Pictures | |||
| 1955 | Gordon Douglas | Film score | Warner Bros. | |||
| 1955 | Rudolph Maté | Film score | Columbia Pictures | |||
| 1956 | Bandido | Richard Fleischer | Film score | United Artists | ||
| 1956 | Come Next Spring | R. G. Springsteen | Film score | Republic Pictures | ||
| 1956 | Death of a Scoundrel | Charles Martin | Film score | Warner Bros. | [34] | |
| 1956 | Hell on Frisco Bay | Frank Tuttle | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1956 | John Ford | Film score | Warner Bros. | |||
| 1957 | Band of Angels | Raoul Walsh | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1957 | China Gate | Samuel Fuller | Film score | 20th Century Fox | with H. Jackson; theme by V. Young | |
| 1957 | Escapade in Japan | Arthur Lubin | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | ||
| 1958 | All Mine to Give | Allen Reisner | Film score | RKO Radio Pictures | ||
| 1958 | Darby's Rangers | William Wellman | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1958 | Fort Dobbs | Gordon Douglas | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1958 | Marjorie Morningstar | Irving Rapper | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1959 | Mervyn LeRoy | Film score | Warner Bros. | |||
| 1959 | Delmer Daves | Film score | Warner Bros. | |||
| 1959 | John Paul Jones | John Farrow | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1959 | Delmer Daves | Film score | Warner Bros. | |||
Cutter orchestrated all of the movie scores that Steiner wrote in the 1960s.
| Year | Film | Director | Role | Production Company | Awards | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Cash McCall | Joseph Pevney | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1960 | Delmer Daves | Film score | Warner Bros. | |||
| 1960 | Ice Palace | Vincent Sherman | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1961 | Parrish | Delmer Daves | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1961 | Gordon Douglas | Film score | Warner Bros. | |||
| 1961 | Susan Slade | Delmer Daves | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1961 | Portrait of a Mobster | Joseph Pevney | Film score | Warner Bros. | Score arranged by Howard Jackson from four Max Steiner scores including The FBI Story. | |
| 1962 | Mervyn LeRoy | Film score | Warner Bros. | |||
| 1962 | Rome Adventure | Delmer Daves | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1962 | FBI Code 98 | Leslie H. Martinson | Film score | Warner Bros. | [35] | |
| 1963 | Spencer's Mountain | Delmer Daves | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1964 | Raoul Walsh | Film score | Warner Bros. | |||
| 1964 | Youngblood Hawke | Delmer Daves | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1965 | Two on a Guillotine | William Conrad | Film score | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1965 | Those Calloways | Norman Tokar | Film score | Walt Disney Productions | ||