Frank Skinner (composer)

For other people named Frank Skinner, see Frank Skinner (disambiguation).

Frank Skinner
Born	December 31, 1897 Meredosia, Illinois, United States
Died	October 9, 1968(1968-10-09) (aged 70) Hollywood, California, United States
Genres	Film score
Occupation	Composer

Frank Skinner (December 31, 1897 – October 9, 1968) was an American film composer and arranger.

Career

In 2014, Dallas pre-swing orchestra, The Singapore Slingers released a fifteen-track CD homage to Skinner's arrangements.

Partial filmography

• The Rage of Paris (1938)
• Son of Frankenstein (1939)
• Big Town Czar (1939)
• Charlie McCarthy, Detective (1939)
• The Spirit of Culver (1939)
• The Sun Never Sets (1939)
• Rio (1939)
• Destry Rides Again (1939)
• The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
• The House of the Seven Gables (1940)
• Green Hell (1940)
• My Little Chickadee (1940)
• Hired Wife (1940)
• When the Daltons Rode (1940)
• Seven Sinners (1940)
• Back Street (1941)
• The Wolf Man (1941, with Hans J. Salter, uncredited)
• South of Tahiti (1941)
• Appointment for Love (1941)
• Hellzapoppin (1941)
• Too Many Blondes (1941)
• The Lady from Cheyenne (1941)
• Lady in a Jam (1942)
• Who Done It? (1942)
• Jail House Blues (1942)
• Saboteur (1942)
• Broadway (1942)
• Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942)
• Eagle Squadron (1942)
• Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942)
• Nightmare (1942)
• Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942)
• Arabian Nights (1942)
• Pittsburgh (1942)
• Hers to Hold (1943)
• White Savage (1943)
• Two Tickets to London (1943)
• Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)
• The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943)
• Fired Wife (1943)
• We've Never Been Licked (1943)
• Gung Ho! (1943)
• Hi, Beautiful (1944)
• Destiny (1944)
• The Suspect (1944)
• Frontier Gal (1945)
• The Runaround (1946)
• Black Angel (1946)
• Swell Guy (1946)
• The Egg and I (1947)
• Ride the Pink Horse (1947)
• Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman (1947)
• The Exile (1947)
• I'll Be Yours (1947)
• For the Love of Mary (1948)
• Family Honeymoon (1948)
• The Naked City (1948)
• Hazard (1948)
• Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
• Tap Roots (1948)
• The Fighting O'Flynn (1949)
• The Life of Riley (1949)
• The Lady Gambles (1949)
• Tulsa (1949)
• Sword in the Desert (1949)
• The Gal Who Took the West (1949)
• Free for All (1949)
• Francis (1950)
• Comanche Territory (1950)
• Louisa (1950)
• One Way Street (1950)
• The Desert Hawk (1950)
• The Sleeping City (1950)
• Harvey (1950)
• Double Crossbones (1951)
• Katie Did It (1951)
• Bedtime for Bonzo (1951)
• Francis Goes to the Races (1951)
• Bright Victory (1951)
• The Mark of the Renegade (1951)
• The Lady Pays Off (1951)
• The Raging Tide (1951)
• Week-End with Father (1951)
• No Room for the Groom (1952)
• Bonzo Goes to College (1952)
• It Grows on Trees (1952)
• The World in His Arms (1952)
• Because of You (1952)
• Desert Legion (1953)
• Thunder Bay (1953)
• The Man from the Alamo (1953)
• Wings of the Hawk (1953)
• The Stand at Apache River (1953)
• Back to God's Country (1953)
• Forbidden (1953)
• Taza, Son of Cochise (1954)
• Magnificent Obsession (1954)
• Chief Crazy Horse (1955)
• The Shrike (1955)
• Foxfire (1955)
• One Desire (1955)
• All That Heaven Allows (1955)
• Never Say Goodbye (1956)
• Star in the Dust (1956)
• The Rawhide Years (1956)
• Written on the Wind (1956)
• The Tattered Dress (1957)
• Interlude (1957)
• Tammy and the Bachelor (1957)
• Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
• My Man Godfrey (1957)
• This Happy Feeling (1958)
• The Tarnished Angels (1958)
• Kathy O' (1958)
• The Perfect Furlough (1958)
• Imitation of Life (1959)
• Portrait in Black (1960)
• Midnight Lace (1960)
• Back Street (1961)
• Tammy and the Doctor (1963)
• Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)
• The Ugly American (1963)
• Bullet for a Badman (1964)
• Shenandoah (1965)
• The Appaloosa (1966)
• Madame X (1966)

External links

• Frank Skinner at IMDb