title: Frank Skinner (composer)
text: # 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)
  * 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)
  