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name: "Max Bergunker"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/max-bergunker"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "3 March 1885"
died: "8 July 1969"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-19T21:35:34.050633+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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# Max Bergunker

Composer. Born 3 March 1885 in Mykolaiv, Russian Empire. Died 8 July 1969.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 3 March 1885, Mykolaiv, Russian Empire
- **Died:** 8 July 1969
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0075143/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1304461

## Biography

Max Bergunker (1885–1969) was a Russian-born American composer of film scores. Born in Mykolaiv in the Russian Empire, he emigrated to the United States in 1924 and was naturalised as an American citizen in 1929.

He worked on scores for films during the transition from silent to sound pictures in the late 1920s and early 1930s, often uncredited or in collaboration. His contributions include *The Patriot* (1928), directed by Ernst Lubitsch and co-composed with Gerard Carbonara and Domenico Savino; *The Shopworn Angel* (1928); *Chinatown Nights* (1929); and *Fighting Caravans* (1931). He died in Brooklyn, New York.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Patriot* (1928), Fi1m 72, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/the-patriot.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

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

- *Dangerous Nan McGrew* (1930), Music
- *The Shopworn Angel* (1928), Original Music Composer
- *The Whip* (1928), Music
- *The Patriot* (1928), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-patriot.md)

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