# Frank Skinner (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)
* 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)