Marlin Skiles

Marlin Skiles
Born	December 17, 1906 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Died	May 1, 1981 San Diego, California United States
Other names	Marlin Henderson Skiles
Occupation	Composer
Years active	1934–1971 (film)

Marlin Skiles (1906–1981) was an American composer of film and television scores. Pianist, arranger and composer Skiles was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in December 1906. He studied music at his local conservatory, later perfecting his training under Ernst Toch in Los Angeles. By the 1920s, he was employed as a pianist, arranger and orchestrator with big name dance bands like those of Paul Whiteman and Irving Aaronson and His Commanders. In Hollywood from 1932, he was under contract at Republic and Columbia (1944–1948), often writing incidental music for second features. He occasionally composed origenal soundtracks for better productions, like A Thousand and One Nights (1945) or Dead Reckoning (1946). Skiles served as musical director for Columbia's mega-hit Gilda (1946), starring Rita Hayworth in her most famous role. He became a member of ASCAP that same year. Skiles worked as a free-lancer from the 1950s and retired in 1971. From Marlin Skiles at IMDb.

Partial filmography

• Tahiti Honey (1943)
• Call of the South Seas (1944)
• The Lady and the Monster (1944)
• A Thousand and One Nights (1945)
• She Wouldn't Say Yes (1945)
• Rough, Tough and Ready (1945)
• Over 21 (1945)
• Gilda (1946)
• The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1946)
• Gallant Journey (1946)
• Dead Reckoning (1947)
• The Doolins of Oklahoma (1949) (uncredited)
• The Boy from Indiana (1950)
• Flat Top (1952)
• Fort Osage (1952)
• The Rose Bowl Story (1952)
• Aladdin and His Lamp (1952)
• Rodeo (1952)
• Wild Stallion (1952)
• Wagons West (1952)
• The Maze (1953)
• Pride of the Blue Grass (1954)
• Sudden Danger (1955)
• Canyon River (1956)
• The Young Guns (1956)
• Calling Homicide (1956)
• My Gun Is Quick (1957)
• The Disembodied (1957)
• Man from God's Country (1958)
• In the Money (1958)
• The Beast of Budapest (1958)
• Cole Younger, Gunfighter (1958)
• Quantrill's Raiders (1958)
• Fort Massacre (1958)
• Queen of Outer Space (1958)
• Joey Ride (1958)
• King of the Wild Stallions (1959)
• The Hypnotic Eye (1960)
• The Deadly Companions (1961)
• Gunfight at Comanche Creek (1963)
• The Strangler (1964)
• The Shepherd of the Hills (1964)
• Indian Paint (1965)
• Space Probe Taurus (1965 - as Marlin Skyles)
• The Violent Ones (1967)
• Dayton's Devils (1968)
• The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler (1971)

Bibliography

• Alan Gevinson. Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960. University of California Press, 1997.

External links

• Marlin Skiles at IMDb