Frank Skinner
Frank Skinner (December 31, 1897 – October 9, 1968) was an American film composer and arranger.
Skinner was born in Meredosia, Illinois. A graduate of the Chicago Musical College (now known as the Chicago Conservatory of Music), 16-year-old Frank found employment in vaudeville and began playing in local areas with his brother Carl Skinner of Meredosia Illinois on drums. They were billed as the Skinner Brothers dance band. From there they began playing on the steamboats that went up and down the Illinois River. It was during this time that he began writing and arranging music for dance bands. This work brought him to New York, where from 1925 to 1935 he arranged about 2000 popular songs for Robbins Publishing. By the time he left Manhattan for Hollywood, he had written two books on arranging for dance bands.
After a short period at MGM, working on musical settings for The Great Ziegfeld (1936), Skinner was hired by Universal Studios. Over the course of his 30 years there, he composed music for more than 200 films. Although he continued to work on musicals, he quickly mastered the art of dramatic scores, eventually earning five Academy Award nominations (1938–43). He died in Beverly Hills, California, leaving behind his wife Dolly Repine Skinner.
His distinctive approach to scoring horror films, such as Son of Frankenstein (1939) and The Wolf Man (1941), has been characterized as a ‘passion for chromatic lines … mirrored contours … [and] restrained, yet ominously mythical orchestrations’ (Marcello). He gained new recognition in the 1950s for his lush romantic scores, including those for such Douglas Sirk films as Magnificent Obsession (1954) and Written on the Wind (1956). Despite many changes in the film industry, his book Underscore (1950) has survived as an excellent introduction to film music composition.
In 2014, Dallas pre-swing orchestra, The Singapore Slingers released a fifteen-track CD homage to Skinner's arrangements.
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The Ride to Hangman's Tree
1967 · Music, Original Music Composer
Let's Kill Uncle
1966 · Music
The Appaloosa
1966 · Music
Madame X
1966 · Original Music Composer
Shenandoah
1965 · Original Music Composer
Kitten with a Whip
1964 · Additional Music
Bullet for a Badman
1964 · Original Music Composer
Captain Newman, M.D.
1963 · Original Music Composer
The Ugly American
1963 · Original Music Composer
Back Street
1961 · Original Music Composer
Midnight Lace
1960 · Original Music Composer
Portrait in Black
1960 · Original Music Composer
Imitation of Life
1959 · Original Music Composer
The Restless Years
1958 · Original Music Composer
The Perfect Furlough
1958 · Original Music Composer
Ride a Crooked Trail
1958 · Additional Music
Kathy O'
1958 · Music
Step Down to Terror
1958 · Music
Once Upon a Horse...
1958 · Original Music Composer
This Happy Feeling
1958 · Original Music Composer
The Tarnished Angels
1957 · Original Music Composer
Interlude
1957 · Original Music Composer
My Man Godfrey
1957 · Original Music Composer
Man of a Thousand Faces
1957 · Original Music Composer
Tammy and the Bachelor
1957 · Original Music Composer
The Midnight Story
1957 · Music
The Night Runner
1957 · Music
The Tattered Dress
1957 · Original Music Composer
Battle Hymn
1957 · Music
Written on the Wind
1956 · Original Music Composer
Away All Boats
1956 · Original Music Composer
The Rawhide Years
1956 · Music
Star in the Dust
1956 · Music
Never Say Goodbye
1956 · Original Music Composer
Lady Godiva of Coventry
1955 · Original Music Composer
All That Heaven Allows
1955 · Original Music Composer
One Desire
1955 · Original Music Composer
Foxfire
1955 · Original Music Composer
The Shrike
1955 · Music
Chief Crazy Horse
1955 · Music
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
1955 · Music
Six Bridges to Cross
1955 · Original Music Composer
Revenge of the Creature
1955 · Music
Destry
1954 · Music
Sign of the Pagan
1954 · Original Music Composer
The Black Shield of Falworth
1954 · Original Music Composer
Magnificent Obsession
1954 · Original Music Composer
Taza, Son of Cochise
1954 · Music
The Far Country
1954 · Original Music Composer
Forbidden
1953 · Original Music Composer
The Stand at Apache River
1953 · Music
Wings of the Hawk
1953 · Music
The Man from the Alamo
1953 · Music
Thunder Bay
1953 · Original Music Composer
Desert Legion
1953 · Music
The Mississippi Gambler
1953 · Original Music Composer
Because of You
1952 · Original Music Composer
The Black Castle
1952 · Music
Horizons West
1952 · Additional Music
The World in His Arms
1952 · Music
Bonzo Goes to College
1952 · Original Music Composer
The Duel at Silver Creek
1952 · Additional Music
Lost in Alaska
1952 · Music
Sally and Saint Anne
1952 · Music
No Room for the Groom
1952 · Music
Bend of the River
1952 · Additional Music
Week-End with Father
1951 · Music
The Raging Tide
1951 · Original Music Composer
The Strange Door
1951 · Music
Iron Man
1951 · Music
Bright Victory
1951 · Original Music Composer
Comin' Round the Mountain
1951 · Music
The Mark of the Renegade
1951 · Music
Hollywood Story
1951 · Original Music Composer
Francis Goes to the Races
1951 · Music
Bedtime for Bonzo
1951 · Original Music Composer
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
1951 · Music
Harvey
1950 · Music
Katie Did It
1950 · Music
The Sleeping City
1950 · Music Director, Original Music Composer
Shakedown
1950 · Music
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion
1950 · Music
The Desert Hawk
1950 · Original Music Composer
Winchester '73
1950 · Music
Spy Hunt
1950 · Music
Louisa
1950 · Music
Comanche Territory
1950 · Music
One Way Street
1950 · Original Music Composer
Francis
1950 · Music
Bagdad
1949 · Original Music Composer
Free For All
1949 · Music
Abandoned
1949 · Music
Red, Hot and Blue
1949 · Additional Music
The Gal Who Took the West
1949 · Music
Sword in the Desert
1949 · Original Music Composer
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
1949 · Music
The Lady Gambles
1949 · Original Music Composer
Johnny Stool Pigeon
1949 · Music
Tulsa
1949 · Original Music Composer
Mexican Hayride
1948 · Music
Family Honeymoon
1948 · Original Music Composer
For the Love of Mary
1948 · Original Music Composer
Tap Roots
1948 · Original Music Composer
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
1948 · Original Music Composer
Hazard
1948 · Music
The Naked City
1948 · Original Music Composer
The Exile
1947 · Original Music Composer
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
1947 · Music
Ride the Pink Horse
1947 · Original Music Composer
The Egg and I
1947 · Original Music Composer
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
1947 · Original Music Composer
I'll Be Yours
1947 · Music
The Dark Mirror
1946 · Music
Black Angel
1946 · Original Music Composer
Canyon Passage
1946 · Music Director, Original Music Composer
Her Adventurous Night
1946 · Music
She-Wolf of London
1946 · Music
Girl on the Spot
1946 · Original Music Composer
Frontier Gal
1945 · Original Music Composer
Pillow of Death
1945 · Music
Strange Confession
1945 · Music
Secret Agent X-9
1945 · Original Music Composer
The Jungle Captive
1945 · Music
Blonde Ransom
1945 · Original Music Composer
Here Come the Co-Eds
1945 · Music
The Suspect
1945 · Music Director, Original Music Composer
Destiny
1944 · Original Music Composer
The Mummy's Curse
1944 · Music
Hi, Beautiful
1944 · Original Music Composer
House of Frankenstein
1944 · Music
In Society
1944 · Music
Reckless Age
1944 · Original Music Composer
The Mummy's Ghost
1944 · Music
South of Dixie
1944 · Original Music Composer
Jungle Woman
1944 · Music
This Is the Life
1944 · Orchestrator
Follow the Boys
1944 · Original Music Composer
Phantom Lady
1944 · Additional Music
Gung Ho!
1943 · Original Music Composer
Crazy House
1943 · Orchestrator
Top Man
1943 · Original Music Composer
Fired Wife
1943 · Original Music Composer
We've Never Been Licked
1943 · Original Music Composer
Hers to Hold
1943 · Music
All by Myself
1943 · Original Music Composer
Captive Wild Woman
1943 · Music
White Savage
1943 · Music
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
1943 · Music
Keep 'Em Slugging
1943 · Original Music Composer
It Ain't Hay
1943 · Music
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943 · Original Music Composer
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
1942 · Original Music Composer
Arabian Nights
1942 · Original Music Composer
Mug Town
1942 · Original Music Composer
Pittsburgh
1942 · Music
Nightmare
1942 · Music
Who Done It?
1942 · Music
The Mummy's Tomb
1942 · Music
Eyes of the Underworld
1942 · Original Music Composer
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
1942 · Original Music Composer
Between Us Girls
1942 · Music
Invisible Agent
1942 · Music
There's One Born Every Minute
1942 · Original Music Composer
Lady in a Jam
1942 · Original Music Composer
Eagle Squadron
1942 · Music
Tough as They Come
1942 · Original Music Composer
Broadway
1942 · Original Music Composer
Saboteur
1942 · Original Music Composer
Mississippi Gambler
1942 · Music
Ride 'Em Cowboy
1942 · Original Music Composer
Hellzapoppin'
1941 · Original Music Composer
The Wolf Man
1941 · Original Music Composer
Keep 'Em Flying
1941 · Original Music Composer
Appointment for Love
1941 · Music
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
1941 · Original Music Composer
Moonlight in Hawaii
1941 · Orchestrator
Badlands of Dakota
1941 · Music
Hold That Ghost
1941 · Music
The Flame of New Orleans
1941 · Music
Riders of Death Valley
1941 · Original Music Composer
The Black Cat
1941 · Music
Man-Made Monster
1941 · Music
Horror Island
1941 · Music
Nice Girl?
1941 · Music, Orchestrator
Back Street
1941 · Original Music Composer
The Invisible Woman
1940 · Original Music Composer
One Night in the Tropics
1940 · Music, Orchestrator
Seven Sinners
1940 · Original Music Composer
The Mummy's Hand
1940 · Music
Hired Wife
1940 · Music Score Producer
When the Daltons Rode
1940 · Original Music Composer
South to Karanga
1940 · Music Score Producer
La Conga Nights
1940 · Original Music Composer
The House of the Seven Gables
1940 · Music
It's a Date
1940 · Songs
Black Friday
1940 · Original Music Composer
My Little Chickadee
1940 · Music Score Producer
Green Hell
1940 · Original Music Composer
The Invisible Man Returns
1940 · Original Music Composer
Charlie McCarthy, Detective
1939 · Original Music Composer
The Big Guy
1939 · Music
Destry Rides Again
1939 · Original Music Composer
Tower of London
1939 · Original Music Composer, Orchestrator
First Love
1939 · Music
One Hour to Live
1939 · Music
The Witness Vanishes
1939 · Original Music Composer
The House of Fear
1939 · Music
The Sun Never Sets
1939 · Original Music Composer
Ex-Champ
1939 · Original Music Composer
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
1939 · Music
Son of Frankenstein
1939 · Orchestrator, Original Music Composer
That Certain Age
1938 · Music
The Rage of Paris
1938 · Original Music Composer
Wives Under Suspicion
1938 · Original Music Composer
Mad About Music
1938 · Music
One Hundred Men and a Girl
1937 · Music
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