Marlin Skiles

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Marlin Henderson Skiles (born December 17, 1906 in Harrisburg , Pennsylvania , † May 1, 1981 in San Diego , California ) was an American pianist , arranger and film composer .

Life

Marlin Skiles first attended Technical High School and then the Froehlich School of Music in their native Harrisburg . He later studied with composer Ernst Toch in Los Angeles . At the age of 17 he worked as a pianist for dance orchestras, later also as musical director, pianist and arranger for Paul Whiteman and Irving Aaronson . In 1932 he went to Hollywood , where from 1934 he worked as a composer for various film studios, but also for radio. He composed particularly often for the small production company Republic Pictures. In 1944 he finally got a contract with Columbia Pictures , where he worked mostly with Columbia's musical director Morris Stoloff . For the musical Tonight and Every Night (1945) with Rita Hayworth and Janet Blair , he and Stoloff received a nomination for an Oscar in the category of best film music . He was also involved in Hayworth's greatest success, the film noir Gilda . Mostly, however, Skiles was responsible for smaller productions.

From 1948 he worked again as a freelance composer, whereupon he contributed the accompanying music for several film adaptations of the book series Bomba, the jungle boy in the 1950s . In 1971 he retired from the film business to Poway near San Diego . In 1976 he published a book entitled Music Scoring for TV & Motion Pictures .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1942: Youth on Parade
  • 1942: Johnny Doughboy
  • 1945: Tonight and Every Night
  • 1945: Hitchhike to Happiness
  • 1945: 1001 Nights ( A Thousand and One Nights )
  • 1945: Over 21
  • 1946: Gilda
  • 1946: The Jazz Singer ( The Jolson Story )
  • 1947: Late atonement ( Dead Reckoning )
  • 1947: Game ( framed )
  • 1948: Blood and Gold ( Relentless )
  • 1948: Miss Wildfang ( Mickey )
  • 1949: Bandits at the Crossroads ( The Doolins of Oklahoma )
  • 1951: Reiter against Sitting Bull (Cavalry Scout)
  • 1951: The Cowboy Who Was Twice (Callaway Went Thataway)
  • 1951: Flight to Mars
  • 1951: Bomba the Avenger ( The Lion Hunters )
  • 1952: Caravan westward ( Wagons West )
  • 1952: Battle Zone Pacific ( Battlezone )
  • 1952: Sturmgeschwader Komet ( Flat Top )
  • 1954: arrows at dusk ( Arrow in the Dust )
  • 1954: The Golden Idol ( The Golden Idol )
  • 1954: Bomba, Tarzan's heir ( Killer Leopard )
  • 1956 Canyon River ( Canyon River )
  • 1958: Men Who Die in Boots ( Man from God's Country )
  • 1958: The Daredevils of San Fernando ( Cole Younger, Gunfighter )
  • 1958: The last of the 2nd squadron ( Fort Massacre )
  • 1958: In the claws of Venus ( Queen of Outer Space )
  • 1959: The dogs bite the last ( Battle Flame )
  • 1960: The 13 victims of Dr. Desmond ( The Hypnotic Eye )
  • 1961: Deadly Companions ( The Deadly Companions )
  • 1962: Wild Gals of the Naked West ( Wild Gals of the Naked West )
  • 1963: Death rode in the saddle ( Gunfight at Comanche Creek )
  • 1964: The Boston Strangler ( The Strangler )

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Randall D. Larson : Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema . Scarecrow Press, 1985, ISBN 0-81081-728-4 , p. 99.
  2. ↑ cf. traditionalmusic.co.uk
personal data
SURNAME Skiles, marlin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Skiles, Marlin Henderson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American pianist, arranger and film composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Harrisburg , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1981
Place of death San Diego , California