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name: "Milan Roder"
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roles: ["Composer"]
born: "5 December 1878"
died: "23 January 1956"
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average_fi1m_score: 77
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-19T22:54:49.484652+00:00"
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# Milan Roder

Composer. Born 5 December 1878 in Osijek. Died 23 January 1956.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 5 December 1878, Osijek
- **Died:** 23 January 1956
- **Active:** 1932–1935
- **Frequently works with:** [Gary Cooper](https://film.one/person/gary-cooper.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110644348, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006255/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/121115

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*A Farewell to Arms*](https://film.one/film/a-farewell-to-arms.md) (80)

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## Biography

Milan Roder (1878–1956) was a Croatian-American composer, orchestrator and music director who worked extensively in Hollywood during the 1930s. Born in Osijek, he immigrated to the United States in 1914 and became a naturalised citizen in 1920.

He contributed music to numerous films, including *A Farewell to Arms* (1932), *The Sign of the Cross* (1932), *Cleopatra* (1934), *The Lives of a Bengal Lancer* (1935) and *Death Takes a Holiday* (1934). He received an Academy Award nomination for his work on *Souls at Sea* (1937). Earlier in his career he served as musical director and orchestrator on several Broadway productions.

Roder died in Los Angeles in January 1956.

*Sources: imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Lives of a Bengal Lancer* (1935), Fi1m 74, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/the-lives-of-a-bengal-lancer.md)
- *A Farewell to Arms* (1932), Fi1m 80, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/a-farewell-to-arms.md)

## Complete filmography (26)

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

- *Devotion* (1946), Orchestrator
- *The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex* (1939), Orchestrator
- *Juarez* (1939), Orchestrator
- *If I Were King* (1938), Additional Music
- *Bulldog Drummond in Africa* (1938), Original Music Composer
- *You and Me* (1938), Orchestrator
- *Souls at Sea* (1937), Original Music Composer
- *Easy Living* (1937), Additional Music
- *The Mandarin Mystery* (1936), Original Music Composer
- *Craig's Wife* (1936), Original Music Composer
- *The Princess Comes Across* (1936), Additional Music
- *The Voice of Bugle Ann* (1936), Original Music Composer
- *Last of the Pagans* (1935), Original Music Composer
- *The Last Outpost* (1935), Original Music Composer
- *The Black Room* (1935), Music
- *The Lives of a Bengal Lancer* (1935), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/the-lives-of-a-bengal-lancer.md)
- *Cleopatra* (1934), Orchestrator, Additional Music
- *Murder at the Vanities* (1934), Original Music Composer
- *Death Takes a Holiday* (1934), Original Music Composer
- *Four Frightened People* (1934), Original Music Composer
- *Voltaire* (1933), Music
- *Supernatural* (1933), Original Music Composer
- *Silver Dollar* (1932), Original Music Composer
- *The Sign of the Cross* (1932), Music
- *A Farewell to Arms* (1932), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/a-farewell-to-arms.md)
- *Scarlet Dawn* (1932), Original Music Composer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1938: Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment (nominated), for *Souls at Sea*

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

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