Milt Franklyn(1897-1962)

Music Department
Composer
Soundtrack

Composer and conductor for Warner Brothers cartoons since 1935, educated at the University of Utah, the University of California, and the University of Pennsylvania. He was Master of Ceremonies for Fanchon and Marco between 1927 and 1930, and then for Paramount Publix and Loews between 1931 and 1933. He joined ASCAP in 1954.

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Known for

Arthur

5.7

Soundtrack("Cues from Two Scent's Worth", "Cues from Who Scent You?")

2011

Doctor Sleep

7.3

Soundtrack("Rabbit's Feat (Cues)")

2019

Son of the Mask

2.3

Soundtrack("Stubborn Performer", "Amazing Discovery")

2005

Daffy Duck's Quackbusters

7.1

Composer

1988

Credits

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Music Department

Irreverent Imagination: The Golden Age of the Looney Tunes
7.7
Video
- composer: stock music
- 2003
The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show
7.8
TV Series
- segment composer
- music
- 1986–2000
The Magical World of Chuck Jones
6.7
- composer
- 1992
Bugs vs. Daffy: Battle of the Music Video Stars
6.4
TV Special
- composer: classical music
- 1988
The Night of the Living Duck
6.4
Short
- composer: classical cartoon music
- 1988
Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary
7.2
TV Special
- composer: stock music (uncredited)
- 1986
Warner Bros. Cartoons Golden Jubilee 24 Karat Collection - Pepe Le Pew's Skunk Tales
Video
- music
- 1985
Warner Bros. Cartoons Golden Jubilee 24 Karat Collection - Foghorn Leghorn's Fractured Funnies
Video
- Orchestration
- 1985
Warner Bros. Cartoons Golden Jubilee 24 Karat Collection - Elmer Fudd's Comedy Capers
Video
- music
- 1985
Warner Bros. Cartoons Golden Jubilee 24 Karat Collection - Speedy Gonzales' Fast Funnies
Video
- music
- 1985
Warner Bros. Cartoons Golden Jubilee 24 Karat Collection - Daffy Duck: The Nuttiness Continues...
8.0
Video
- Musical direction
- 1985
Bugs Bunny in Space
7.1
TV Movie
- Music Department
- 1977
The Bugs Bunny Show
8.6
TV Series
- Music Department
- 1971
Rendezvous in Space
6.1
Short
- composer: stock music (uncredited)
- 1964
The Jet Cage
6.4
Short
- music planned by (uncredited)
- 1962

Composer

The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show
7.8
TV Series
- segment composer
- 1992–2000
Bugs Bunny's Creature Features
6.5
TV Short
- Composer
- 1992
Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes
6.7
TV Short
- Composer
- 1991
Bugs Bunny's Overtures to Disaster
7.1
TV Movie
- Composer
- 1991
Daffy Duck's Quackbusters
7.1
- Composer
- 1988
The Duxorcist
6.7
Short
- Composer
- 1987
The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour
8.3
TV Series
- Composer
- 1985–1986
Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island
7.0
- Composer (as Milt Franklin)
- 1983
Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales
7.0
- Composer
- 1982
Bugs Bunny's Mad World of Television
6.5
TV Movie
- Composer (classic cartoons)
- 1982
The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie
7.1
- Composer
- 1981
Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special
6.3
TV Movie
- Composer (classic cartoons)
- 1980
The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special
7.2
TV Movie
- Composer (as Milt Franklin, classic cartoons)
- 1980
Bugs Bunny's Holiday Diet
6.2
TV Movie
- Composer (classic cartoons)
- 1979
The Bugs Bunny Mother's Day Special
6.7
TV Movie
- Composer (classic cartoons)
- 1979

Soundtrack

Joker: Folie à Deux
5.2
- writer: "Show Biz Bugs"
- 2024
Doctor Sleep
7.3
- writer: "Rabbit's Feat (Cues)"
- 2019
The Looney Tunes Show
7.8
TV Series
- writer: "The Road Runner Song"
- 2011–2012
Arthur
5.7
- writer: "Cues from Two Scent's Worth", "Cues from Who Scent You?"
- 2011
Son of the Mask
2.3
- writer: "Stubborn Performer", "Amazing Discovery"
- 2005
Marvin the Martian in the Third Dimension
5.8
Short
- writer: "The Looney Tunes Theme Song"
- 1996
Daffy Duck's Quackbusters
7.1
- writer: "The Looney Tunes Theme Song"
- 1988
Adventures of the Road-Runner
7.4
Short
- writer: "Out on the Desert"
- 1962
Tugboat Granny
6.9
Short
- music: "Chugga Chugga Chug" (uncredited)
- 1956

Personal details

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Alternative names
- Milt Franklin
Born
- September 16, 1897
- New York City, New York, USA
Died
- April 24, 1962
- Hollywood, California, USA(heart attack)
Spouse
- Charlotte? - April 24, 1962 (his death)

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Trivia
Milt Franklyn spent most of his career as an unsung musical arranger and conductor for the Warner Bros. cartoon studio. From 1936 he was the right-hand man of composer Carl W. Stalling, orchestrating the 7-minute scores Stalling had to produce every 10 days for the "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" shorts. In the mid-1950s ill-health forced Stalling to scale back his workload and Franklyn gradually assumed his duties, notably on the Bugs Bunny classic "What's Opera, Doc?" (1957). He became music director for the Warner Bros. cartoons upon Stalling's retirement in 1959 and kept the job until his death three years later.