Frank Skinner

Personal Info

Know For

Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

1897-12-31 (71 years old)

Deathday

1968-10-08

Place of Birth

Meredosia, Illinois, USA

Frank Skinner

Biography

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...

Production

1945

The Suspect

as Music Director

1965

Shenandoah

as Original Music Composer

1948

The Naked City

as Original Music Composer

1954

The Black Shield of Falworth

as Original Music Composer

1956

1942

Saboteur

as Original Music Composer

1963

Captain Newman, M.D.

as Original Music Composer

1960

Midnight Lace

as Original Music Composer

1939

Tower of London

as Original Music Composer

1940

The Invisible Man Returns

as Original Music Composer

1949

The Lady Gambles

as Original Music Composer

1944

Destiny

as Original Music Composer

1939

Destry Rides Again

as Original Music Composer

1943

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

as Original Music Composer

1941

1951

1960

Portrait in Black

as Original Music Composer

1947

Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman

as Original Music Composer

1954

The Far Country

as Original Music Composer

1949

Tulsa

as Original Music Composer

1950

Francis

as Music

1956

1952

1940

Seven Sinners

as Original Music Composer

1964

Bullet for a Badman

as Original Music Composer

1942

Ride 'Em Cowboy

as Original Music Composer

1954

Saskatchewan

as Original Music Composer

1955

Lady Godiva of Coventry

as Original Music Composer

1956

Never Say Goodbye

as Original Music Composer

1953

Thunder Bay

as Original Music Composer

1938

1938

1946

Black Angel

as Original Music Composer

1952

Because of You

as Original Music Composer

1950

Katie Did It

as Music

1942

1942

Who Done It?

as Music

1944

1940

1958

The Restless Years

as Original Music Composer

1942

Nightmare

as Music

1943

White Savage

as Music

1957

The Tattered Dress

as Original Music Composer

1966

1949

Abandoned

as Music

1953

1949

Red, Hot and Blue

as Additional Music

1953

1958

Kathy O'

as Music

1947

The Egg and I

as Original Music Composer

1955

The Shrike

as Music

1950

Louisa

as Music

1951

The Raging Tide

as Original Music Composer

1949

Free For All

as Music

1950

Harvey

as Music

1948

Family Honeymoon

as Original Music Composer

1946

Canyon Passage

as Music Director

1941

The Wolf Man

as Music

1943

Hers to Hold

as Music

1939

First Love

as Music

1947

1951

Bright Victory

as Original Music Composer

1942

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

as Original Music Composer

1941

Nice Girl?

as Music

1952

1944

In Society

as Music

1948

1941

1941

Hellzapoppin'

as Original Music Composer

1943

It Ain't Hay

as Music

1940

It's a Date

as Songs

1943

Crazy House

as Orchestrator

1954

Magnificent Obsession

as Original Music Composer

1945

Secret Agent X-9

as Original Music Composer

1941

Riders of Death Valley

as Original Music Composer

1956

Away All Boats

as Original Music Composer

1950

Spy Hunt

as Music

1955

Six Bridges to Cross

as Original Music Composer

1945

Frontier Gal

as Original Music Composer

1957

1940

When the Daltons Rode

as Original Music Composer

1946

Canyon Passage

as Original Music Composer

1947

Ride the Pink Horse

as Original Music Composer

1958

This Happy Feeling

as Original Music Composer

1951

Iron Man

as Music

1941

Moonlight in Hawaii

as Orchestrator

1956

Written on the Wind

as Original Music Composer

1950

Shakedown

as Music

1950

The Sleeping City

as Original Music Composer

1950

The Sleeping City

as Music Director

1955

Foxfire

as Original Music Composer

1940

The Invisible Woman

as Original Music Composer

1938

Wives Under Suspicion

as Original Music Composer

1950

1957

Tammy and the Bachelor

as Original Music Composer

1942

Tough as They Come

as Original Music Composer

1943

Keep 'Em Slugging

as Original Music Composer

1940

Black Friday

as Original Music Composer

1957

My Man Godfrey

as Original Music Composer

1942

Pittsburgh

as Music

1942

Arabian Nights

as Original Music Composer

1946

1941

1954

Sign of the Pagan

as Original Music Composer

1939

Son of Frankenstein

as Orchestrator

1939

Tower of London

as Orchestrator

1958

The Perfect Furlough

as Original Music Composer

1941

1945

The Suspect

as Original Music Composer

1942

1957

1949

Bagdad

as Original Music Composer

1955

All That Heaven Allows

as Original Music Composer

1942

There's One Born Every Minute

as Original Music Composer

1939

The Witness Vanishes

as Original Music Composer

1949

Sword in the Desert

as Original Music Composer

1957

The Tarnished Angels

as Original Music Composer

1944

Phantom Lady

as Additional Music

1952

Bonzo Goes to College

as Original Music Composer

1951

Bedtime for Bonzo

as Original Music Composer

1958

Once Upon a Horse...

as Original Music Composer

1953

Forbidden

as Original Music Composer

1959

Imitation of Life

as Original Music Composer

1948

For the Love of Mary

as Original Music Composer

1961

Back Street

as Original Music Composer

1963

The Ugly American

as Original Music Composer

1950

The Desert Hawk

as Original Music Composer

1955

One Desire

as Original Music Composer

1943

Fired Wife

as Original Music Composer

1940

La Conga Nights

as Original Music Composer

1941

Keep 'Em Flying

as Original Music Composer

1943

All by Myself

as Original Music Composer

1939

Charlie McCarthy, Detective

as Original Music Composer

1942

Mug Town

as Original Music Composer

1941

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

as Original Music Composer

1939

Son of Frankenstein

as Original Music Composer

1948

1945

1943

1942

1942

Eyes of the Underworld

as Original Music Composer

1940

Hired Wife

as Music Score Producer

1941

Nice Girl?

as Orchestrator

1941

Back Street

as Original Music Composer

1948

Hazard

as Music

1942

1966

1957

Interlude

as Original Music Composer

1957

Battle Hymn

as Music

1942

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror

as Original Music Composer

1966

Madame X

as Original Music Composer

1950

One Way Street

as Original Music Composer

1955

1939

The Sun Never Sets

as Original Music Composer

1947

The Exile

as Original Music Composer

1938

The Rage of Paris

as Original Music Composer

1939

Ex-Champ

as Original Music Composer

1944

Reckless Age

as Original Music Composer

1944

South of Dixie

as Original Music Composer

1940

Green Hell

as Original Music Composer

1957

Man of a Thousand Faces

as Original Music Composer

1954

Destry

as Music

1940

1940

South to Karanga

as Music Score Producer

1939

1948

Tap Roots

as Original Music Composer

1964

Kitten with a Whip

as Additional Music

1944

Jungle Woman

as Music

1946

1939

1943

Gung Ho!

as Original Music Composer

1939

The Big Guy

as Music

1944

1950

1940

My Little Chickadee

as Music Score Producer

1945

1945

1952

Horizons West

as Additional Music

1952

Bend of the River

as Additional Music

1941

1942

Lady in a Jam

as Original Music Composer

1951

Hollywood Story

as Original Music Composer

1943

We've Never Been Licked

as Original Music Composer

1942

Broadway

as Original Music Composer

1944

Hi, Beautiful

as Original Music Composer

1953

The Mississippi Gambler

as Original Music Composer

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