Franklyn Marks

Franklyn Marks was an American composer, arranger, and orchestrator, who worked on several Disney features, both animated and live-action, as well as television films, such as Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar and The Boy Who Talked to Badgers.
Marks was born in Cleveland, Ohio and his parents provided piano lessons and so rapid was his progress that, by 1927, he was performing on WHK radio with his high school jazz ensemble the Harmony Knights. Upon graduating from Glenville High School, he was awarded a scholarship to attend Dartmouth College, where he majored in music. He toured as pianist with the Barbary Coast Orchestra, Dartmouth's acclaimed dance band, and maintained such high academic standing that he earned membership in Phi Beta Kappa as well as a senior fellowship. Graduating in 1932, Marks became a pianist for the Merle Jacobs Orchestra and an arranger/musician for Irving Aaronson and his band which recorded Marks' arrangement of "Love in Bloom" with Bing Crosby.
Now living in New York as a staff arranger at NBC Radio, Marks was working with many artists, including Red Nichols, Dinah Shore, Eddie Cantor, and studied under Joseph Schillinger and taught his method of composition to fellow musicians. From 1944 to 1946, he served in the U.S. Army with the 97th Armed Ground Forces Band. Settling in Los Angeles with his family and began writing original compositions for symphonies, arranging and composing scores for film and television, and taught at the California Academy of Music.
Beginning his career with Disney in 1955, Marks, under Paul Smith's tutelage, learned the specialized techniques used to create scores for animated cartoons and live action films. He contributed to Mickey Mouse Club and the Disneyland anthology series before orchestrating music for films, such as Third Man on the Mountain, Sleeping Beauty, The Sword in the Stone, Babes in Toyland, and The Parent Trap.
Marks died on July 12, 1976 following a long struggle with cancer.
==Filmography==
Year 	Film 	Position
1955, 1958	Mickey Mouse Club 	OrchestratorSongs
1956–1974 	The Magical World of Disney 	OrchestratorComposer
1956 	How to Have an Accident in the Home 	Composer
1956 	The Great Locomotive Chase 	Orchestrator
1956 	Secrets of Life 	Orchestrator
1957 	Johnny Tremain 	Orchestrator
1957 	Perri 	Orchestrator
1958 	The Sign of Zorro 	Orchestrator
1958 	The Light in the Forest 	Orchestrator
1959 	Third Man on the Mountain 	Songwriter: "Climb the Mountain"
1959 	Sleeping Beauty 	Orchestrator (uncredited)
1959 	Kodak Presents Disneyland '59 	Composer
1960 	The Hound That Thought He Was a Raccoon	OrchestratorComposer
1960 	Pollyanna 	Orchestrator
1961 	One Hundred and One Dalmatians 	Orchestrator
1961 	The Parent Trap 	Orchestrator
1961 	Babes in Toyland 	Orchestrator
1961 	The Absent-Minded Professor 	Orchestrator
1962 	Bon Voyage! 	OrchestratorComposer: dance music
1963 	Miracle of the White Stallions 	Orchestrator
1963 	The Sword in the Stone 	Orchestrator
1964 	For the Love of Willadean 	Composer
1965 	Those Calloways 	Additional conductor (uncredited)
1965 	That Darn Cat! 	Orchestrator
1966 	The Ugly Dachshund 	Orchestrator
1966 	The Boston Tea Party 	Orchestrator
1967 	Scrooge McDuck and Money 	ComposerConductor
1967 	The Legend of the Boy and the Eagle 	Composer
1967 	Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar 	ComposerSongwriter: "Talkin' About Charlie"
1970 	King of the Grizzlies 	Orchestrator
1970 	The Boatniks 	Orchestrator
1970 	The Wild Country 	Orchestrator
1971 	The Barefoot Executive 	Orchestrator
1972 	Justin Morgan Had a Horse 	Composer
1972 	Snowball Express 	Orchestrator
1973 	The World's Greatest Athlete 	Orchestrator (uncredited)
1974 	The Castaway Cowboy 	Orchestrator
1974 	Hog Wild 	Composer
1975 	The Boy Who Talked to Badgers 	Composer
==External links==
*Franklyn Marks Tribute Page
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