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Franz Waxman

Name in Native Language: "Franz Wachsmann" (German/DE)
Composer | * 12/24/1906 († 60, 02/24/1967) | Königshütte, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Chorzów, Slaskie, Poland]
Franz Waxman (né Wachsmann; December 24, 1906 – February 24, 1967) was a German-born composer and conductor of Jewish descent, known primarily for his work in the film music genre. His film scores include Bride of Frankenstein, Rebecca, Sunset Boulevard, A Place in the Sun, Stalag 17, Rear Window, Peyton Place, The Nun's Story, and Taras Bulba. He received twelve Academy Award nominations, and won two Oscars in consecutive years (for Sunset Boulevard and A Place in the Sun). He also rece... ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Romance / Love | Comedies

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Wealthy, sheltered Lina McLaidlaw is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Johnnie Aysgarth. Though warned that Johnnie is little more than a fortune hunter, Lina marries him anyway and remains ...

Suspicion

NR

1941 | 3.6/5 | 1h 39min
Mystery, Romance / Love, Thriller
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A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity. ...

Sunset Boulevard

PG

1950 | 4.2/5 | 1h 50min
Drama
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Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must ...

Rebecca

NR

1940 | 4.0/5 | 2h 10min
Mystery, Drama, Thriller, Romance / Love
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After recovering from injuries sustained in the mob attack upon himself and his creation, Dr. Frankenstein falls under the control of his former mentor, Dr. Pretorius, who insists the now-chastened do ...

The Bride of Frankenstein

NR

1935 | 3.8/5 | 1h 15min
Horror, Science Fiction
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Awards & Nominations for Franz Waxman

2x Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score 3x Academy Award for Best Original Score Academy Award for Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment 2x Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score 6x Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score
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Movies with Franz Waxman as Actor(2)

as Self (archive footage)2024 Pioniere der Filmmusik - Europas Sound für Hollywood
as Piano1930 The Cabinet of Dr. Larifari

Movies with Franz Waxman as Crew(164)

Sound/Music2001 Screenwriter John Michael Hayes on 'Rear Window'
Sound/Original Music Composer1968 To Die in Paris
Sound/Original Music Composer1967 The Longest Hundred Miles
Sound/Original Music Composer1966 Lost Command
Sound/Original Music Composer1962 Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
Sound/Original Music Composer1962 My Geisha
Sound/Conductor1962 My Geisha
Sound/Original Music Composer1962 Taras Bulba
Sound/Original Music Composer1961 King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
Sound/Original Music Composer1961 Return to Peyton Place
Sound/Original Music Composer1960 Sunrise at Campobello
Sound/Original Music Composer1960 The Story of Ruth
Sound/Original Music Composer1960 Cimarron
Sound/Conductor1960 Cimarron
Sound/Original Music Composer1959 Career
Sound/Original Music Composer1959 Beloved Infidel
Sound/Original Music Composer1959 The Nun's Story
Sound/Conductor1959 The Nun's Story
Sound/Original Music Composer1959 Count Your Blessings
Sound/Original Music Composer1958 I Married a Monster from Outer Space
Sound/Original Music Composer1958 Run Silent, Run Deep
Sound/Original Music Composer1957 Peyton Place
Sound/Original Music Composer1957 Sayonara
Sound/Original Music Composer1957 The Spirit of St. Louis
Sound/Original Music Composer1956 Crime in the Streets
Sound/Original Music Composer1956 Back from Eternity
Sound/Original Music Composer1956 Miracle in the Rain
Sound/Original Music Composer1955 Mister Roberts
Sound/Conductor1955 Mister Roberts
Sound/Music1955 Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
Sound/Original Music Composer1955 The Virgin Queen
Sound/Original Music Composer1955 The Indian Fighter
Sound/Original Music Composer1955 Untamed
Sound/Original Music Composer1954 Prince Valiant
Sound/Original Music Composer1954 The Silver Chalice
Sound/Original Music Composer1954 Elephant Walk
Sound/Original Music Composer1954 Rear Window
Sound/Original Music Composer1954 Demetrius and the Gladiators
Sound/Original Music Composer1954 This Is My Love
Sound/Music1953 A Lion Is in the Streets
Sound/Original Music Composer1953 Stalag 17
Sound/Original Music Composer1953 I, the Jury
Sound/Original Music Composer1953 Man on a Tightrope
Sound/Original Music Composer1952 Botany Bay
Sound/Original Music Composer1952 Come Back, Little Sheba
Sound/Original Music Composer1952 Lure of the Wilderness
Sound/Original Music Composer1952 Phone Call from a Stranger
Sound/Music1952 My Cousin Rachel
Sound/Original Music Composer1951 He Ran All the Way
Sound/Original Music Composer1951 The Blue Veil
Sound/Original Music Composer1951 A Place in the Sun
Sound/Original Music Composer1951 Red Mountain
Sound/Original Music Composer1951 Anne of the Indies
Sound/Original Music Composer1951 Decision Before Dawn
Sound/Original Music Composer1950 Night and the City
Sound/Original Music Composer1950 The Furies
Sound/Original Music Composer1950 Dark City
Sound/Original Music Composer1950 Sunset Boulevard
Sound/Original Music Composer1949 Alias Nick Beal
Sound/Original Music Composer1949 Rope of Sand
Sound/Original Music Composer1949 Johnny Holiday
Sound/Original Music Composer1949 Task Force
Sound/Original Music Composer1949 Night Unto Night
Sound/Original Music Composer1948 Whiplash
Sound/Original Music Composer1948 Sorry, Wrong Number
Sound/Original Music Composer1948 No Minor Vices
Sound/Original Music Composer1947 The Paradine Case
Sound/Original Music Composer1947 Humoresque
Sound/Conductor1947 Humoresque
Sound/Original Music Composer1947 Dark Passage
Sound/Original Music Composer1947 Possessed
Sound/Original Music Composer1947 Cry Wolf
Sound/Original Music Composer1947 Nora Prentiss
Sound/Original Music Composer1947 The Unsuspected
Sound/Original Music Composer1947 The Two Mrs. Carrolls
Sound/Original Music Composer1946 Her Kind of Man
Sound/Original Music Composer1945 The Horn Blows at Midnight
Sound/Music1945 Pride of the Marines
Sound/Music1945 Objective, Burma!
Crew/Additional Music1945 The Brighton Strangler
Sound/Original Music Composer1945 To Have and Have Not
Sound/Music1945 Hotel Berlin
Sound/Music Score Producer1945 The Last Bomb
Sound/Original Music Composer1945 Confidential Agent
Sound/Original Music Composer1944 In Our Time
Sound/Original Music Composer1944 Mr. Skeffington
Sound/Original Music Composer1943 Destination Tokyo
Sound/Original Music Composer1943 Air Force
Sound/Music1943 Edge of Darkness
Sound/Original Music Composer1943 Old Acquaintance
Sound/Original Music Composer1942 Woman of the Year
Sound/Original Music Composer1942 Seven Sweethearts
Sound/Music1942 Reunion in France
Sound/Original Music Composer1942 Journey for Margaret
Sound/Original Music Composer1942 Her Cardboard Lover
Sound/Original Music Composer1942 Tortilla Flat
Sound/Original Music Composer1941 The Feminine Touch
Sound/Original Music Composer1941 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Sound/Original Music Composer1941 Suspicion
Sound/Music1941 Whistling in the Dark
Sound/Original Music Composer1941 Unfinished Business
Sound/Music1941 Kathleen
Sound/Original Music Composer1941 Design for Scandal
Sound/Original Music Composer1940 Escape
Sound/Original Music Composer1940 Florian
Sound/Original Music Composer1940 Boom Town
Sound/Original Music Composer1940 The Philadelphia Story
Sound/Original Music Composer1940 Sporting Blood
Sound/Original Music Composer1940 Rebecca
Sound/Orchestrator1940 Rebecca
Sound/Original Music Composer1940 Strange Cargo
Sound/Original Music Composer1939 On Borrowed Time
Sound/Original Music Composer1939 The Ice Follies of 1939
Sound/Music Director1939 The Ice Follies of 1939
Sound/Music1939 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Sound/Original Music Composer1939 At the Circus
Sound/Music Director1939 At the Circus
Sound/Original Music Composer1938 The Shining Hour
Sound/Original Music Composer1938 Too Hot to Handle
Sound/Music1938 Love Is a Headache
Sound/Original Music Composer1938 Dramatic School
Sound/Original Music Composer1938 The Young in Heart
Sound/Music1938 A Christmas Carol
Sound/Original Music Composer1938 Test Pilot
Sound/Original Music Composer1938 Man-Proof
Sound/Original Music Composer1938 Port of Seven Seas
Sound/Original Music Composer1938 Arsène Lupin Returns
Sound/Original Music Composer1938 Three Comrades
Sound/Original Music Composer1937 The Bride Wore Red
Sound/Music1937 A Day at the Races
Sound/Original Music Composer1937 Personal Property
Sound/Music1937 Night Key
Sound/Original Music Composer1937 The Emperor's Candlesticks
Sound/Original Music Composer1937 Captains Courageous
Sound/Songs1937 Captains Courageous
Sound/Original Music Composer1936 Sutter's Gold
Sound/Original Music Composer1936 Love Before Breakfast
Sound/Music Director1936 Love Before Breakfast
Sound/Original Music Composer1936 The Invisible Ray
Sound/Original Music Composer1936 Love on the Run
Sound/Original Music Composer1936 The Devil-Doll
Sound/Music Director1936 Next Time We Love
Sound/Original Music Composer1936 Fury
Sound/Original Music Composer1936 Trouble for Two
Sound/Original Music Composer1936 Absolute Quiet
Sound/Original Music Composer1936 His Brother's Wife
Sound/Original Music Composer1935 Remember Last Night?
Sound/Original Music Composer1935 The Bride of Frankenstein
Sound/Music Director1935 3 Kids and a Queen
Sound/Original Music Composer1935 3 Kids and a Queen
Sound/Music1935 The Great Impersonation
Sound/Original Music Composer1935 East of Java
Sound/Music Director1935 East of Java
Sound/Music1934 Bad Seed
Sound/Original Music Composer1934 Liliom
Sound/Original Music Composer1933 The Only Girl
Sound/Music Arranger1933 The Only Girl
Sound/Music1932 The Little One of Montparnasse
Sound/Music1932 Paprika
Sound/Music1931 In the act
Sound/Music Director1931 The Man in Search of His Murderer
Sound/Original Music Composer1930 Burglars
Sound/Orchestrator1930 The Blue Angel
Sound/Music1930 The Cabinet of Dr. Larifari

TV Shows/Series with Franz Waxman as Crew(1)

Sound/Original Music Composer1959 The Twilight Zone

Full Name: Franz Waxman
Citizenship: Germany
Born: Monday, 12/24 1906 (December) in Königshütte, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Chorzów, Slaskie, Poland]
Died: Friday, 02/24 1967 (February) in Los Angeles (aged: 60)
Zodiac sign: Capricorn (Chinese zodiac sign: Horse)
Languages: German (DE), English (EN)
Other names for Franz Waxman (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Franz Wachsmann"
"F. Wachsmann"
"F. Waxman"
Franz Waxman frequently works together with these people:
Cedric Gibbons (41x, Crew)
Edwin B. Willis (32x, Crew)
Douglas Shearer (28x, Crew)
Leonid Raab (26x, Crew)
Perc Westmore (20x, Crew)
Bess Flowers (19x, Actress)
Jack L. Warner (19x, Crew)
Robert McCord (18x, Actor)
Adrian (17x, Crew)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (14x, Crew)
Sam Comer (14x, Crew)
Dolly Tree (13x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:64592, Added: 05/23/2018, Last updated: 04/13/2024