About
William Axt
Overview
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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. 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.
Known for
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| 1946 | Equestrian Quiz: What's Your I.Q.? No. 11 | Sound | Music | N/A N/A |
| 1945 | Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood | Sound | Music | 58 Average |
| 1940 | Untamed | Sound | Music | 58 Average |
| 1939 | Miracles for Sale | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1939 | Tell No Tales | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 1939 | The Kid From Texas | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 1939 | Sergeant Madden | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 1939 | Fast and Loose | Sound | Music Director | 58 Average |
| 1939 | Heroes at Leisure | Sound | Music | N/A N/A |
| 1939 | Stand Up and Fight | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1938 | The Girl Downstairs | Sound | Music | 58 Average |
| 1938 | Spring Madness | Sound | Music Score Producer | 58 Average |
| 1938 | Listen, Darling | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1938 | Three Loves Has Nancy | Sound | Music | 58 Average |
| 1938 | Rich Man, Poor Girl | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1938 | Fast Company | Sound | Music | 58 Average |
| 1938 | Yellow Jack | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1938 | The First Hundred Years | Sound | Music Score Producer | 59 Average |
| 1938 | Everybody Sing | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 1937 | The Bad Man of Brimstone | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 1937 | Beg, Borrow or Steal | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 1937 | Thoroughbreds Don't Cry | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 1937 | Thoroughbreds Don't Cry | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1937 | Big City | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1937 | Between Two Women | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1937 | Parnell | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 1937 | Espionage | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 1937 | The Last of Mrs. Cheyney | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 1937 | Under Cover of Night | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1936 | Wanted - A Master | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 1936 | Mad Holiday | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1936 | Libeled Lady | Sound | Original Music Composer | 61 Fair |
| 1936 | Suzy | Sound | Music | 58 Average |
| 1936 | Revolt of the Zombies | Sound | Music | 57 Average |
| 1936 | Old Shep | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 1936 | The Unguarded Hour | Sound | Music Score Producer | 59 Average |
| 1936 | The Jonker Diamond | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 1936 | Petticoat Fever | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1936 | Three Godfathers | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1936 | The Garden Murder Case | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 1936 | Tough Guy | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 1936 | Three Live Ghosts | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1935 | Last of the Pagans | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1935 | Whipsaw | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1935 | Rendezvous | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 1935 | Trained Hoofs | Sound | Music | N/A N/A |
| 1935 | It's in the Air | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 1935 | O'Shaughnessy's Boy | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 1935 | The Perfect Tribute | Sound | Music | N/A N/A |
| 1935 | Woman Wanted | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 1935 | The Murder Man | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1935 | Pitcairn Island Today | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 1935 | Memories and Melodies | Sound | Music | N/A N/A |
| 1935 | Buried Loot | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1934 | Forsaking All Others | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1934 | A Wicked Woman | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 1934 | Death on the Diamond | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1934 | Hide-Out | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 1934 | Straight Is the Way | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1934 | The Girl from Missouri | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1934 | Paris Interlude | Sound | Music | 58 Average |
| 1934 | Stamboul Quest | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 1934 | Operator 13 | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 1934 | The Thin Man | Sound | Original Music Composer | 66 Fair |
| 1934 | Sadie McKee | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1934 | Manhattan Melodrama | Sound | Original Music Composer | 60 Fair |
| 1934 | Men in White | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 1934 | Goofy Movies Number Two | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1934 | The Mystery of Mr. X | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 1934 | This Side of Heaven | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1934 | You Can't Buy Everything | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1933 | Sons of the Desert | Sound | Music | 62 Fair |
| 1933 | Dinner at Eight | Sound | Original Music Composer | 60 Fair |
| 1933 | Should Ladies Behave | Sound | Music | 58 Average |
| 1933 | Bombshell | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1933 | Menu | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 1933 | Broadway to Hollywood | Sound | Music | 58 Average |
| 1933 | Penthouse | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1933 | Midnight Mary | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1933 | Reunion in Vienna | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1933 | Storm at Daybreak | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 1933 | Gabriel Over the White House | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1933 | Fast Workers | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 1933 | Today We Live | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1933 | The Secret of Madame Blanche | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 1933 | Whistling in the Dark | Sound | Music | 58 Average |
| 1932 | The Mask of Fu Manchu | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 1932 | Microscopic Mysteries | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 1932 | Faithless | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1932 | Blondie of the Follies | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 1932 | The Washington Masquerade | Sound | Music Score Producer | 59 Average |
| 1932 | As You Desire Me | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 1932 | Sea Spiders | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 1932 | Letty Lynton | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1932 | The Wet Parade | Sound | Music | 58 Average |
| 1932 | Polly of the Circus | Sound | Music | 58 Average |
| 1931 | Mata Hari | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 1931 | Private Lives | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 1931 | Wild and Woolly | Sound | Music | N/A N/A |
| 1931 | Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 1931 | Love-Tails of Morocco | Sound | Music | 58 Average |
| 1931 | Sporting Blood | Sound | Music | 58 Average |
| 1930 | Doughboys | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 1930 | Romance | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 1930 | Call of the Flesh | Sound | Music | 58 Average |
| 1930 | The Big Dog House | Sound | Music | 58 Average |
| 1930 | When the Wind Blows | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 1930 | The Woman Racket | Sound | Music | 58 Average |
| 1930 | Chasing Rainbows | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 1929 | Navy Blues | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 1929 | Untamed | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 1929 | Speedway | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1929 | The Mysterious Island | Sound | Music | 58 Average |
| 1929 | The Unholy Night | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 1929 | Our Modern Maidens | Sound | Music | 58 Average |
| 1929 | The Single Standard | Sound | Music | 58 Average |
| 1929 | Where East Is East | Sound | Music | 58 Average |
| 1929 | The Pagan | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 1929 | Tide of Empire | Sound | Music | 58 Average |
| 1928 | West of Zanzibar | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1928 | Show People | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1928 | The Masks of the Devil | Sound | Music | N/A N/A |
| 1928 | The Wind | Sound | Music | 61 Fair |
| 1928 | Our Dancing Daughters | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1928 | The Man Who Laughs | Sound | Music | 62 Fair |
| 1928 | While the City Sleeps | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1928 | The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1927 | Camille | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 1926 | Bardelys the Magnificent | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1926 | Don Juan | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1926 | La Bohème | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1925 | Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | Sound | Original Music Composer | 61 Fair |
| 1925 | The Big Parade | Sound | Music | 61 Fair |
| 1924 | Greed | Sound | Original Music Composer | 62 Fair |
| 1924 | The Navigator | Sound | Original Music Composer | 62 Fair |
| 1923 | Scaramouche | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1919 | Madame DuBarry | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
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| 1949 | Adam's Rib | Crew | Additional Music | 63 Fair |
| 1933 | Hold Your Man | Crew | Additional Music | 58 Average |
| 1929 | Spite Marriage | Crew | Additional Music | 59 Average |