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)
  • Night in Paradise (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 Snow Queen (1957 film) (1957)
  • 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)

References

  • Skinner, Frank. Underscore: A Combination Method-Text-Treatise on Scoring Music for Motion Picture Films or T.V. Hollywood, CA: Skinner Music Company, 1950. https://archive.org/details/skinner-frank.-underscore.-hollywood-ca-skinner-music-company-1950.