---
name: "George Antheil"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/george-antheil"
fi1m_id: "george-antheil"
imdb_id: "nm0005947"
tmdb_id: 89804
wikidata_id: "Q137739"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "8 July 1900"
died: "12 February 1959"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T02:37:18.510710+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# George Antheil

## Identity

George Antheil

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/george-antheil
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** george-antheil
- **IMDb ID:** nm0005947
- **TMDB ID:** 89804
- **Wikidata ID:** Q137739
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Antheil, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137739, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005947/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/89804

Composer. Born 8 July 1900 in Trenton, New Jersey, USA. Died 12 February 1959.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 8 July 1900, Trenton, New Jersey, USA
- **Died:** 12 February 1959
- **Active:** 1937–1950
- **Also known as:** George Johann Carl Antheil
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Antheil, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137739, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005947/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/89804

## Biography

George Antheil was an American composer. Born in Trenton, New Jersey, he studied piano and composition in Philadelphia and New York before moving to Europe in the early 1920s, where he became known for modernist and avant-garde works such as *Ballet Mécanique* (1924).

He returned to the United States in the 1930s and composed scores for numerous films, including *Make Way for Tomorrow* (1937), *Knock on Any Door* (1949), *In a Lonely Place* (1950) and *House by the River* (1950). His later style incorporated more tonal and American influences. Antheil also wrote an autobiography, *Bad Boy of Music* (1945), and collaborated with Hedy Lamarr on a frequency-hopping radio guidance system patented in 1942.

*Sources: catalog.afi.com, britannica.com, allmusic.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Make Way for Tomorrow* (1937), Fi1m 91, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/make-way-for-tomorrow.md)

## Complete filmography (29)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Pinball* (2013), Music
- *Hans van Mierlo, What I Still Dream of Writing* (2006), Music
- *The Young Don't Cry* (1957), Original Music Composer
- *The Pride and the Passion* (1957), Original Music Composer
- *The Giant Claw* (1957), Music
- *The Werewolf* (1956), Music
- *Dementia* (1955), Original Music Composer
- *Not as a Stranger* (1955), Original Music Composer
- *The Juggler* (1953), Music
- *Actors and Sin* (1952), Original Music Composer
- *The Sniper* (1952), Original Music Composer
- *Sirocco* (1951), Original Music Composer
- *In a Lonely Place* (1950), Original Music Composer
- *House by the River* (1950), Original Music Composer
- *Tokyo Joe* (1949), Original Music Composer
- *The Fighting Kentuckian* (1949), Original Music Composer
- *We Were Strangers* (1949), Original Music Composer
- *Knock on Any Door* (1949), Original Music Composer
- *Repeat Performance* (1947), Original Music Composer
- *That Brennan Girl* (1946), Original Music Composer
- *The Plainsman and the Lady* (1946), Music
- *Specter of the Rose* (1946), Original Music Composer
- *Angels Over Broadway* (1940), Original Music Composer
- *The Buccaneer* (1938), Original Music Composer
- *Make Way for Tomorrow* (1937), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/make-way-for-tomorrow.md)
- *The Plainsman* (1936), Music
- *Once in a Blue Moon* (1935), Music
- *Harlem Sketches* (1935), Music
- *Ballet Mécanique* (1924), Music

## Gallery

- ![George Antheil in 1927](https://film.one/media/person/156009/gallery-86bcf583ccf0.jpg) George Antheil in 1927 — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/George_Antheil.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![George Antheil](https://film.one/media/person/156009/gallery-a1bd22178695.jpg) George Antheil — Berenice Abbott, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Antheil_1927.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![George Antheil at the piano, c. mid 1920s 06Thirdear](https://film.one/media/person/156009/gallery-f5a9deb8ad63.jpg) George Antheil at the piano, c. mid 1920s 06Thirdear — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Antheil_at_piano%2C_mid_1920s.jpg/1280px-Antheil_at_piano%2C_mid_1920s.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![George Antheil with one of his noise-making devices, c. early 1920s](https://film.one/media/person/156009/gallery-a5a8bf8950be.jpg) George Antheil with one of his noise-making devices, c. early 1920s — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/George_Antheil_noisemaker.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Other awards — 3 won

- National Inventors Hall of Fame 2014: National Inventors Hall of Fame (won)
- EFF Award 1997: EFF Award (won)
- Guggenheim Fellowship 1932: Guggenheim Fellowship (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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