Milt Franklyn

 Milt Franklyn was a composer and an arranger for Warner Bros, Looney Tunes animated series. He was born on September 16, 1897, in New York City, and died on April 24, 1962. When Franklyn's family moved from New York to Salt Lake City, he was three years old. On June 10, 1915, Franklyn graduated from high school in Salt Lake City. He studied at the University of Utah for a year. He was Utah's state junior tennis champion for six years. He spent the next few years at the University of California, Berkeley, before getting drafted into the army and enrolling at Pennsylvania University. Franklyn did not go overseas; instead, he trained as a navy lieutenant for three months before signing the Armistice on November 11, 1918.

Because Franklyn could play a variety of instruments, he joined a band in San Francisco and spent the next five years performing at the Palace and St. Francis hotels. Later, he put together his nine-piece orchestra and performed in San Mateo, where he also managed a music store. He started as a music arranger for Carl Stalling at Warner Bros. Franklyn's debut comic as a composer, which was released in 1954. The first thing he used to do in the morning was composing music. He only went to the studio to see the Warner Bros. 30-piece orchestra. Franklyn was a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and an ASCAP member since 1954. On April 24, 1962, Franklyn died of a heart attack. Franklyn was working on the score for a twenty cartoon called The jet cage when he died. Franklyn was able to compose the opening two minutes of the comic, with the rest composed by William Lava, who had previously worked on the Warner Bros. Franklyn's music was also featured in Bugs Bunny on Broadway after his death.