Milt Franklyn

Milt Franklyn

Milton J. "Milt" Franklyn (September 16, 1897 – April 24, 1962) was a musical composer and arranger who worked on the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes animated cartoons.

Franklyn moved from New York to Salt Lake City at the age of three, where he went to high school and finished one year at the University of Utah. He was the state junior tennis champion in Utah for six years. The next two years were spent at the University of California, Berkeley, then he began a term at Pennsylvania University when he was called to service in World War One. Franklyn did not serve overseas; he trained as a naval officer for three months and then the Armistice was signed on November 11, 1918. He returned to Berkeley to finish his education. As Franklyn could play a number of instruments, he joined a band in San Francisco and for the next few years played at the Palace and St. Francis hotels. He began his own nine-piece orchestra, known at various times as the Peninsula Band, the Super Soloists, and the Merrimakers, and appeared in San Mateo (1926 to June 1927), where he also owned a music store, and San Jose (1928 to January 1929), where he was Master of Ceremonies and wrote revues for the California Theatre before moving on to Fresno and Oakland. For two years he was emcee with Fanchon and Marco at Fox West Coast in San Diego; musical director and emcee with Paramount Publix Corporation, travelling to Seattle, Denver, Houston and Toledo; and finally worked on the Loew's circuit in Providence, Rhode Island and New York City from 1933 to 1935. Franklyn quit vaudeville to go to Hollywood in 1935 and spent a year doing occasional work. In early 1936, he joined Warner Bros. as music arranger to Carl Stalling, becoming music director in 1953. The first cartoon with Franklyn credited as a composer was Bugs and Thugs, released in 1954, though Franklyn estimated at the time his 599th cartoon for Warners was Past Perfumance. Franklyn always composed his scores at home early in the morning; he only went to the studio to watch the 30-piece Warner Bros. Orchestra record the music or to view the finished cartoon. Among the songs Franklyn is said to have composed with director Chuck Jones and writer Michael Maltese is The Michigan Rag for the 1955 cartoon One Froggy Evening, featuring Michigan J. Frog. However, the ASCAP database lists only Maltese as the composer. He became the sole composer in 1958 upon Stalling's retirement. Franklyn died of a heart attack on April 24, 1962. At the time of his death, Franklyn was composing the score for a Tweety cartoon, The Jet Cage. The first two minutes of the cartoon were scored by Franklyn, the rest by William Lava, who had been working on the Warner Bros. main lot and replaced him as musical director. The Jet Cage opening credits lists Franklyn and not Lava, while the ASCAP database credits Franklyn with composing the opening title, with no mention of Lava, but a change in composing style in the cartoon is noticeable. Franklyn joined ASCAP in 1954 and was a member of the Academy of TV Arts and Sciences. After his death, Franklyn's music also appeared in Bugs Bunny on Broadway.

Sound

1962

Honey's Money
Movie

Original Music Composer

1962

Bill of Hare
Movie

Original Music Composer

1962

Adventures of the Road-Runner
Movie

Original Music Composer

1962

Quackodile Tears
Movie

Original Music Composer

1962

1961

The Last Hungry Cat
Movie

Original Music Composer

1961

Compressed Hare
Movie

Original Music Composer

1961

D' Fightin' Ones
Movie

Original Music Composer

1961

Birds of a Father
Movie

Original Music Composer

1961

Strangled Eggs
Movie

Original Music Composer

1961

The Mouse on 57th Street
Movie

Original Music Composer

1961

Hoppy Daze
Movie

Original Music Composer

1961

Zip 'n Snort
Movie

Original Music Composer

1961

Cannery Woe
Movie

Original Music Composer

1960

Dog Gone People
Movie

Original Music Composer

1960

Trip for Tat
Movie

Original Music Composer

1960

Hopalong Casualty
Movie

Original Music Composer

1960

The Dixie Fryer
Movie

Original Music Composer

1960

From Hare to Heir
Movie

Original Music Composer

1960

Mice Follies
Movie

Original Music Composer

1960

Ready, Woolen and Able
Movie

Original Music Composer

1960

Mouse and Garden
Movie

Original Music Composer

1960

Crockett-Doodle-Do
Movie

Original Music Composer

1960

Rabbit's Feat
Movie

Original Music Composer

1960

Hyde and Go Tweet
Movie

Original Music Composer

1960

Who Scent You?
Movie

Original Music Composer

1960

Person to Bunny
Movie

Original Music Composer

1960

Goldimouse and the Three Cats
Movie

Original Music Composer

1960

Wild Wild World
Movie

Original Music Composer

1960

Horse Hare
Movie

Original Music Composer

1960

West of the Pesos
Movie

Original Music Composer

1960

Fastest with the Mostest
Movie

Original Music Composer

1959

People Are Bunny
Movie

Original Music Composer

1959

Wild and Woolly Hare
Movie

Original Music Composer

1959

Tweet and Lovely
Movie

Original Music Composer

1959

The Mouse That Jack Built
Movie

Original Music Composer

1959

Trick or Tweet
Movie

Original Music Composer

1959

Mouse-Placed Kitten
Movie

Original Music Composer

1958

Cat Feud
Movie

Original Music Composer

1958

Whoa, Be-Gone!
Movie

Original Music Composer

1957

Rabbit Romeo
Movie

Music Editor

1957

Touché and Go
Movie

Original Music Composer

1957

Zoom and Bored
Movie

Original Music Composer

1957

Ducking the Devil
Movie

Original Music Composer

1957

Birds Anonymous
Movie

Original Music Composer

1957

1957

Boston Quackie
Movie

Original Music Composer

1957

Cheese It, the Cat!
Movie

Original Music Composer

1957

Boyhood Daze
Movie

Original Music Composer

1957

Bedevilled Rabbit
Movie

Original Music Composer

1957

Scrambled Aches
Movie

Original Music Composer

1956

The Honey-Mousers
Movie

Original Music Composer

1956

90 Day Wondering
Movie

Original Music Composer

1956

Deduce, You Say
Movie

Music Director

1956

Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z
Movie

Original Music Composer

1956

Rabbitson Crusoe
Movie

Music Director

1956

Tweet and Sour
Movie

Original Music Composer

1956

Broom-Stick Bunny
Movie

Original Music Composer

1956

Weasel Stop
Movie

Music Director

1956

Weasel Stop
Movie

Orchestrator

1956

1955

One Froggy Evening
Movie

Original Music Composer

1955

1955

1955

Knight-Mare Hare
Movie

Music Director

1955

Dime to Retire
Movie

Music Director

1955

A Kiddies Kitty
Movie

Music Director

1955

Double or Mutton
Movie

Music Director

1955

Lumber Jerks
Movie

Original Music Composer

1955

Rabbit Rampage
Movie

Music Director

1955

Tweety's Circus
Movie

Music Director

1955

Sahara Hare
Movie

Music Director

1955

Lighthouse Mouse
Movie

Original Music Composer

1955

Stork Naked
Movie

Music Director

1955

Pests for Guests
Movie

Music Director

1955

Pizzicato Pussycat
Movie

Original Music Composer

1954

Baby Buggy Bunny
Movie

Original Music Composer

1954

Devil May Hare
Movie

Original Music Composer

1954

1954

1954

Bell Hoppy
Movie

Orchestrator

1954

The Cats Bah
Movie

Orchestrator

1954

Bugs and Thugs
Movie

Original Music Composer

1953

Fowl Weather
Movie

Orchestrator

1953

Duck Amuck
Movie

Orchestrator

1953

1952

Mouse-Warming
Movie

Orchestrator

1952

1951

1951

1951

1950

1950

1949

1949

1948

1946

1946

Daffy Doodles
Movie

Orchestrator

1946

Baseball Bugs
Movie

Orchestrator

1943

1943

1943

1941

1941

1939

1937

Picador Porky
Movie

Orchestrator

Infos

Full Name
Milt Franklyn
Gender
Male
Date of Birth
9/16/1897
Date of Death
4/24/1962
Also Known As

Milt J. Franklyn

Milt Franklin

M. Milt Franklyn