best head of department
by 14icedbears88 | created - 11 Feb 2019 | updated - 11 Jul 2022 | Public
1. Max Steiner
Composer | Casablanca
Austrian composer Max Steiner achieved legendary status as the creator of hundreds of classic American film scores. He was born Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner in Vienna, Austria, the son of Marie Mizzi (Hasiba) and Gabor Steiner, an impresario, and the grandson of actor and theater director and ...
"The Informer" (score by Max Steiner) +
2. Leo F. Forbstein
Music_department | The Adventures of Robin Hood
Leo Forbstein began as a violin player at the age of 4. While conducting at the Royal Theater in St. Joseph, Mo., he pioneered and introduced the synchronization of the orchestra with the silent action on the movie screen.
He moved to Hollywood in the mid 1920s where he directed a symphony orchestra...
"Anthony Adverse" (score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold) +
3. Charles Previn
Music_department | My Man Godfrey
Charles Previn was born on January 11, 1888 in Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for My Man Godfrey (1936), Saboteur (1942) and The Wolf Man (1941). He died on September 22, 1973 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
"One Hundred Men and a Girl" +
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