William Axt
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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.[1] 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 1929.[1] He earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Chicago in 1922.[1]
Axt retired from the film industry to raise cattle and breed horses in Laytonville, California. He died in Ukiah, California.[1]
Filmography
Axt's film credits include:
- The Prisoner of Zenda (1922)
- Greed (1924)
- The Big Parade (1925)
- Ben-Hur (1925)
- Don Juan (1926)
- Camille (1927)
- White Shadows in the South Seas (1928)
- Our Dancing Daughters (1928)
- Where East Is East (1929)
- The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929)
- Madame X (1929)
- Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931)
- Private Lives (1931)
- Grand Hotel (1932)
- Dinner at Eight (1933)
- Sons of the Desert (1933)
- Men in White (1934)
- The Thin Man (1934)
- You Can't Buy Everything (1934)
- Buried Loot (1935), short
- Rendezvous (1935)
- David Copperfield (1935)
- Libeled Lady (1936)
- Untamed (1940)
- Little Nellie Kelly (1940)
- Madame Curie (1943)
References
External links
- William Axt at IMDb
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Categories:
- American film score composers
- Male film score composers
- American male conductors (music)
- Musicians from New York City
- 1888 births
- 1959 deaths
- DeWitt Clinton High School alumni
- University of Chicago alumni
- People from Laytonville, California
- Classical musicians from New York (state)
- 20th-century American conductors (music)
- 20th-century American male musicians
- American composer, 19th-century birth stubs