---
name: "Maurice Baron"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/maurice-baron"
fi1m_id: "maurice-baron"
imdb_id: "nm0056280"
tmdb_id: 29968
wikidata_id: "Q3300371"
roles: ["Orchestrator"]
born: "1 January 1889"
died: "5 September 1964"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 84
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-25T06:17:37.832959+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."
---

# Maurice Baron

## Identity

Maurice Baron

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/maurice-baron
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** maurice-baron
- **IMDb ID:** nm0056280
- **TMDB ID:** 29968
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3300371
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3300371, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0056280/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/29968

Orchestrator. Born 1 January 1889 in Lille. Died 5 September 1964.

## Details

- **Work:** Orchestrator
- **Born:** 1 January 1889, Lille
- **Died:** 5 September 1964
- **Active:** 1925–1927
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3300371, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0056280/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/29968

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*The Big Parade*](https://film.one/film/the-big-parade.md) (80)

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## Biography

Maurice Baron (1889–1964) was a French-born composer, conductor and arranger active in American film and theatre.

He studied music in France before emigrating to the United States. He served as assistant conductor with the Boston Opera Company, violinist with the Seattle Symphony and violist with the San Francisco Symphony. From 1932 he was staff composer and conductor at Radio City Music Hall.

Baron contributed scores and orchestrations to silent films including *The Big Parade* (1925), *Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans* (1927) and *The River* (1929). He published more than 350 compositions and received the French title of Officier d'Académie.

*Sources: nytimes.com, fr.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans* (1927), Fi1m 88, Orchestrator — [page](https://film.one/film/sunrise-a-song-of-two-humans.md)
- *The Big Parade* (1925), Fi1m 80, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-parade.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

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

- *The Doomed Battalion* (1932), Music
- *The River* (1929), Original Music Composer
- *The Lone Wolf's Daughter* (1929), Music
- *Submarine* (1928), Music
- *Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans* (1927), Orchestrator — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/sunrise-a-song-of-two-humans.md)
- *The Better 'Ole* (1926), Original Music Composer
- *La Bohème* (1926), Orchestrator
- *The Big Parade* (1925), Music — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-parade.md)

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