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name: "Karl Hajos"
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born: "28 January 1889"
died: "1 February 1950"
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# Karl Hajos

Composer. Born 28 January 1889 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. Died 1 February 1950.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 28 January 1889, Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
- **Died:** 1 February 1950
- **Also known as:** Carl Hajos
- **Academy Awards:** 2 Oscar nominations
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Hajos, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3193394, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0354531/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/134806

## Biography

Karl Hajos (also credited as Carl Hajos) was a Hungarian composer who worked on numerous film scores from the late silent era through the 1940s. Born Károly Hajós in Budapest on 28 January 1889, he studied at the University of Budapest and the Academy of Music there. He wrote several operettas in Europe before emigrating to the United States in 1924.

Hajos settled in Hollywood and contributed to films for Paramount Pictures and other studios, often providing original music or songs, sometimes uncredited. His credits include *Morocco* (1930), *Dishonored* (1931), *Shanghai Express* (1932), *American Madness* (1932), *The Story of Temple Drake* (1933) and *Werewolf of London* (1935). He was nominated for Academy Awards for the scores of *Summer Storm* (1944) and *The Man Who Walked Alone* (1945).

Hajos died in Hollywood on 1 February 1950.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, de.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Shanghai Express* (1932), Fi1m 80, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/shanghai-express.md)

## Complete filmography (67)

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

- *It's a Small World* (1950), Original Music Composer
- *Kill or Be Killed* (1950), Original Music Composer
- *Call of the Forest* (1949), Original Music Composer
- *The Lovable Cheat* (1949), Music
- *Search for Danger* (1949), Original Music Composer
- *Appointment with Murder* (1948), Original Music Composer
- *Philo Vance's Secret Mission* (1947), Original Music Composer
- *West to Glory* (1947), Original Music Composer
- *Wild West* (1946), Music
- *Stars Over Texas* (1946), Original Music Composer
- *Driftin' River* (1946), Original Music Composer
- *Tumbleweed Trail* (1946), Original Music Composer
- *The Caravan Trail* (1946), Original Music Composer
- *The Mask of Diijon* (1946), Music Director, Original Music Composer
- *Dangerous Intruder* (1945), Original Music Composer
- *Secrets of a Sorority Girl* (1945), Original Music Composer
- *The Missing Corpse* (1945), Music
- *The Man Who Walked Alone* (1945), Music
- *Fog Island* (1945), Original Music Composer, Orchestrator
- *Summer Storm* (1944), Original Music Composer, Music Director
- *Hitler's Madman* (1943), Original Music Composer
- *Riders of Death Valley* (1941), Original Music Composer
- *Night Key* (1937), Music
- *Two Wise Maids* (1937), Music
- *Happy Go Lucky* (1936), Original Music Composer
- *The Preview Murder Mystery* (1936), Additional Music
- *Last of the Pagans* (1935), Original Music Composer
- *She Gets Her Man* (1935), Original Music Composer
- *Manhattan Moon* (1935), Original Music Composer
- *Werewolf of London* (1935), Original Music Composer, Conductor
- *Thirty Day Princess* (1934), Additional Music
- *Four Frightened People* (1934), Original Music Composer
- *Girl Without a Room* (1933), Original Music Composer
- *White Woman* (1933), Music
- *I'm No Angel* (1933), Additional Music
- *The Story of Temple Drake* (1933), Original Music Composer
- *Supernatural* (1933), Original Music Composer
- *Murders in the Zoo* (1933), Additional Music
- *Buffalo Stampede* (1933), Original Music Composer
- *Tonight Is Ours* (1933), Original Music Composer
- *The Devil Is Driving* (1932), Original Music Composer
- *Hot Saturday* (1932), Additional Music
- *American Madness* (1932), Original Music Composer
- *Shanghai Express* (1932), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/shanghai-express.md)
- *City Streets* (1931), Original Music Composer
- *Ladies' Man* (1931), Original Music Composer
- *Dishonored* (1931), Music
- *Unfaithful* (1931), Original Music Composer
- *Scandal Sheet* (1931), Original Music Composer
- *The Right to Love* (1930), Original Music Composer
- *Along Came Youth* (1930), Music
- *Morocco* (1930), Original Music Composer
- *The Sea God* (1930), Original Music Composer
- *Monte Carlo* (1930), Original Music Composer
- *Anybody's Woman* (1930), Original Music Composer
- *Grumpy* (1930), Original Music Composer
- *Manslaughter* (1930), Original Music Composer
- *A Man from Wyoming* (1930), Original Music Composer
- *Slightly Scarlet* (1930), Music
- *The Virginian* (1929), Original Music Composer
- *The Greene Murder Case* (1929), Original Music Composer
- *The River of Romance* (1929), Original Music Composer, Music
- *The Studio Murder Mystery* (1929), Original Music Composer
- *The Canary Murder Case* (1929), Original Music Composer
- *The Woman from Moscow* (1928), Original Music Composer
- *Loves of an Actress* (1928), Music
- *Scarlet Seas* (1928), Original Music Composer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 2 nominated

- 1946: Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score (nominated), for *The Man Who Walked Alone*
- 1945: Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score (nominated), for *Summer Storm*

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

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