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William Axt

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1888 - 1959

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.

Birthday: 1888-04-19

Born At: New York City - New York - USA

Crewed In:

Greed

The Big Parade

The Mask of Fu Manchu

The Thin Man

Blondie of the Follies

Adam's Rib

West of Zanzibar

He Who Gets Slapped

The Murder Man

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Libeled Lady

The Navigator

Penthouse

Dinner at Eight

Our Dancing Daughters

Sadie McKee

Spite Marriage

Big City

Suzy

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

Rendezvous

Whipsaw

Stamboul Quest

Midnight Mary

Romance

The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg

Don Juan

Death on the Diamond

Listen, Darling

Camille

The Mysterious Island

The Secret of Madame Blanche

Scaramouche

Private Lives

Gabriel Over the White House

The Single Standard

Doughboys

Men in White

La Bohème

Operator 13

Where East Is East

Love

The Woman Racket

The Girl from Missouri

Should Ladies Behave

Under Cover of Night

The Garden Murder Case

Speedway

Bardelys the Magnificent

Petticoat Fever

Stand Up and Fight

The Mystery of Mr. X

Three Godfathers

As You Desire Me

Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)

Yellow Jack

Letty Lynton

Chasing Rainbows

Faithless

Whistling in the Dark

Straight Is the Way

Reunion in Vienna

You Can't Buy Everything

A Wicked Woman

Espionage

The Unguarded Hour

Fast Company

Love-Tails of Morocco

Untamed

Goofy Movies Number Two

Three Live Ghosts

The Unholy Night

While the City Sleeps

Tide of Empire

The Kid From Texas

The Girl Downstairs

Rich Man, Poor Girl

Sergeant Madden

Between Two Women

Miracles For Sale

Wanted - A Master

Beg, Borrow or Steal

Sporting Blood

The Washington Masquerade

The First Hundred Years

Parnell

This Side of Heaven

The Masks of the Devil

Navy Blues

Storm at Daybreak

The Bad Man of Brimstone

Paris Interlude

Microscopic Mysteries