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name: "Max Terr"
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roles: ["Orchestrator"]
born: "16 November 1890"
died: "2 August 1951"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 80
average_over: 3
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# Max Terr

Orchestrator. Born 16 November 1890 in Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]. Died 2 August 1951.

## Details

- **Work:** Orchestrator
- **Born:** 16 November 1890, Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]
- **Died:** 2 August 1951
- **Active:** 1929–1941
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1920s 76 (1), 1940s 82 (2)
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 2, Drama 1, Romance 1, War 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $11m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Terr, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22008934, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0855720/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/88646

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*The Love Parade*](https://film.one/film/the-love-parade.md) (76)

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## Biography

Max Terr (1889–1951) was a Russian-born American pianist, arranger, bandleader and film composer. Born in Odessa, he emigrated to the United States as an infant and became active in music from the late 1910s.

He contributed music to early sound films including *The Love Parade* (1929). Later credits include orchestrations for *The Great Dictator* (1940) and *The Little Foxes* (1941), and he composed the march theme for MGM's Metro News. He received an Academy Award nomination for his score to the 1942 version of *The Gold Rush*.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *The Little Foxes* (1941), Fi1m 85, Orchestrator — [page](https://film.one/film/the-little-foxes.md)
- *The Great Dictator* (1940), Fi1m 80, Orchestrator — [page](https://film.one/film/the-great-dictator.md)
- *The Love Parade* (1929), Fi1m 76, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/the-love-parade.md)

## Complete filmography (40)

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

- *The Luckiest Guy in the World* (1947), Music
- *A Really Important Person* (1947), Music
- *I Love My Husband, But!* (1946), Music
- *Sure Cures* (1946), Music
- *Our Old Car* (1946), Music
- *Treasures from Trash* (1946), Music
- *Equestrian Quiz: What's Your I.Q.? No. 11* (1946), Music
- *Musical Masterpieces* (1946), Music
- *Magic on a Stick* (1946), Music
- *Abilene Town* (1946), Original Music Composer
- *Stairway to Light* (1945), Music
- *Purity Squad* (1945), Music
- *The Great American Mug* (1945), Music
- *A Gun in His Hand* (1945), Music
- *Phantoms, Inc.* (1945), Music
- *The Last Installment* (1945), Music
- *It Looks Like Rain* (1945), Music
- *Little White Lie* (1945), Music
- *Dark Shadows* (1944), Music
- *Why Daddy?* (1944), Music
- *The Immortal Blacksmith* (1944), Original Music Composer
- *Dancing Romeo* (1944), Music
- *To My Unborn Son* (1943), Music
- *Storm* (1943), Music
- *Ode to Victory* (1943), Music
- *Forgotten Treasure* (1943), Music
- *Trifles That Win Wars* (1943), Original Music Composer
- *Seeing Hands* (1943), Music
- *Don't You Believe It* (1943), Music
- *Nursery Rhyme Mysteries* (1943), Music
- *That's Why I Left You* (1943), Original Music Composer
- *Heavenly Music* (1943), Music
- *Marines in the Making* (1942), Music
- *Inflation* (1942), Music
- *The Little Foxes* (1941), Orchestrator — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/the-little-foxes.md)
- *The Great Dictator* (1940), Orchestrator — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/the-great-dictator.md)
- *Turn Off the Moon* (1937), Vocal Coach
- *The Love Parade* (1929), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/the-love-parade.md)
- *Wolf Song* (1929), Sound Editor
- *Waterfront* (1928), Sound Assistant

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1943: Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score (nominated), for *The Gold Rush*

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

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