Samuel Kaylin

Samuel Kaylin (18 January 1892 – 7 July 1983) was a film composer who scored Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto movies for Fox Film and 20th Century Fox.

Kaylin was born in Ukraine and emigrated to the United States on January 16, 1907 aboard the Norddeutscher Lloyd steamship Neckar^[1] He worked as a musician at the Chinese Theater in Los Angeles.^[2]

Kaylin joined Fox Film in 1930 and composed more than 80 film scores. Among them were the scores for Shirley Temple's Bright Eyes and John Ford's Judge Priest.^[3] He left 20th Century Fox, Fox Film's successor, in 1940.^[4] In 1943 he founded The Professional Institute of Music and Drama to educate film students^[5] and scored The Leather Burners.

Kaylin died in Bakersfield, California.

• Harmony at Home (1930)
• Walls of Gold (1933)
• Forbidden Melody (1933)
• Orient Express (1934)
• Nothing More Than a Woman (1934)
• Las fronteras del amor (1934)
• La cruz y la espada (1934)
• The Great Hotel Murder (1935)
• Gentle Julia (1936)
• The Jones Family in Big Business (1937)
• Mysterious Mr. Moto (1938)
• Mr. Moto in Danger Island (1939)
• The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1940)