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Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

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Hugo Riesenfeld

Known for: Sound

Birthday: 1879-01-26

Deathday: 1939-09-10 (60 years old)

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Hugo Riesenfeld (January 26, 1879 – September 10, 1939) was an Austrian-American composer. As a film director, he began to write his own orchestral compositions for silent films in 1917, and co-created modern production techniques where film scoring serves an integral part of the action. Riesenfeld composed about 100 film scores in his career.

His most successful compositions were for Cecil B. DeMille's Joan the Woman (1917), The Ten Commandments (1923) and The King of Kings (1927); D. W. Griffith's Abraham Lincoln (1930); and the original scores to F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) and Tabu (1931).

Filmography

All 70

Movies 70

Producer 4

Hugo Riesenfeld

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Filmography

All 70

Movies 70

Producer 4

Director 2

The Making of 'The Last Laugh' (2003)

Sunset Murder Case (1938)

Tell Your Children (1938)

Hawaii Calls (1938)

Tarzan's Revenge (1938)

Gunsmoke Ranch (1937)

The Mandarin Mystery (1936)

White Legion (1936)

The Devil on Horseback (1936)

Revolt of the Zombies (1936)

Let's Sing Again (1936)

The President Vanishes (1934)

Peck's Bad Boy (1934)

Two Heads on a Pillow (1934)

The Wandering Jew (1933)

Tabu (1931)

Hell's Angels (1930)

Zampa (1930)

Abraham Lincoln (1930)

Hungarian Rhapsody (1930)

One Romantic Night (1930)

The Wizard's Apprentice (1930)

Lummox (1930)

Irish Fantasy (1929)

This Is Heaven (1929)

New Orleans (1929)

Bulldog Drummond (1929)

Alibi (1929)

My Lady's Past (1929)

Coquette (1929)

Lucky Boy (1929)

The Rescue (1929)

Sins of the Fathers (1928)

The Awakening (1928)

The Cavalier (1928)

The Battle of the Sexes (1928)

Revenge (1928)

Looping the Loop (1928)

The Woman Disputed (1928)

Tempest (1928)

Ramona (1928)

Two Lovers (1928)

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

The Rough Riders (1927)

The Cat and the Canary (1927)

Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness (1927)

The King of Kings (1927)

The Sorrows of Satan (1926)

The Flaming Frontier (1926)

Three Faces East (1926)

Les misérables (1925)

The Pony Express (1925)

The Wanderer (1925)

Beggar on Horseback (1925)

Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925)

The Swan (1925)

Madame Sans-Gêne (1925)

Monsieur Beaucaire (1924)

Bella Donna (1923)

The Loves of Pharaoh (1922)

Reputation (1921)

Always Audacious (1920)

Conrad in Quest of His Youth (1920)

Humoresque (1920)

The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1919)

Woman (1918)

The Blue Bird (1918)

The Aryan (1916)

Hoodoo Ann (1916)

The Habit of Happiness (1916)

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Known for
Sound

Gender
Male

Birthday
1879-01-26

Deathday
1939-09-10 (60 years old)

Place of birth
Vienna, Austria

Citizenships
Austria

Also known as
Dr. Hugo Riesenfeld