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Danny Elfman

Composer / Actor / Record Producer / Singer-songwriter | * 05/29/1953 (70) | Los Angeles, California (United States of America (USA))
Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American film composer, singer, songwriter, and musician. He came to prominence as the lead singer and primary songwriter for the new wave band Oingo Boingo in the early 1980s. Since scoring his first studio film in 1985, Elfman has garnered international recognition for composing over 100 feature film scores, as well as compositions for television, stage productions, and the concert hall. Elfman has frequently worked with directors Tim Burton, Sam Raimi, and Gus Van Sant, contributing music to nearly 20 Burton projects, including Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and Wednesday, as well as scoring Raimi's Darkman, A Simple Plan, ()
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Daniel Elfman is a composer. Elfman is famous for creating The Simpsons main title theme as well as the Batman theme, and his role as Jack Skellington's singing voice in The Nightmare Before Christmas. He is a frequent collaborator with long-time friend Tim Burton and has scored most of his films. He also sang for the character Bonejangles in the movie Corpse Bride. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards and won a Grammy Award for Tim Burton's Batman and an Emmy Award for his Desperate Housewives theme. Elfman was honored with the prestigious Richard Kirk award at the 2002 BMI Film and TV Awards. Earlier in his career, Elfman lead the rock band Oingo Boingo as singer/songwriter from 1976 until its breakup in 1995.

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Fantasy

Known for these Movies & Shows

Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghouli ...

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Certification unknown

1993 | 3.9/5 | 1h 16min
Fantasy, Animation, Kids & Family
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After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. ...

Men in Black

13

1997 | 3.6/5 | 1h 38min
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction
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A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker. ...

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

K-8

2005 | 3.5/5 | 1h 55min
Adventure, Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy
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Set in a 19th-century European village, this stop-motion animation feature follows the story of Victor, a young man whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real ...

Corpse Bride

Certification unknown

2005 | 3.8/5 | 1h 17min
Romance / Love, Fantasy, Animation
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Awards & Nominations for Danny Elfman

Primetime Emmy Awards Disney Legends Academy Award for Best Original Musical or Comedy Score Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score 2x Academy Award for Best Original Score
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Movies with Danny Elfman as Actor(24)

as himself2023 A Look Into 'The Forbidden Zone'
as himself2017 Score: A Film Music Documentary
as himself2017 78/52
2015 Live From Lincoln Center: Danny Elfman's Music from the Films of Tim Burton
2011 A Conversation with Danny Elfman & Tim Burton
as Narrator (voice)2010 DemiUrge Emesis
as Narrator2008 Proud Iza
as Bonejangles (voice) (uncredited)2006 Inside the Two Worlds of 'The Corpse Bride'
as Bonejangles (voice)2005 Corpse Bride
as himself2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Becoming Oompa-Loompa
as Oompa Loompa (voice) (uncredited)2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
as himself2002 Cosmic Symphonies: Elfman in Space
as himself2000 Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend
as Tommy Lee Ballard2000 The Gift
as himself2000 Psycho Path
as himself1998 The Making of 'The Frighteners'
1996 Oingo Boingo: Farewell (Live from the Universal Amphitheatre)
as himself1994 The Making of Dr. Seuss' 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas!'
as Jack Skellington (singing) / Barrel / Clown with the Tear away Face (voice)1993 The Nightmare Before Christmas
as himself1992 The Magical World of Chuck Jones
as Himself, Waiter1989 Oingo Boingo: Skeletons in the Closet
as himself1981 Urgh! A Music War
as Satan1980 Forbidden Zone
as Singer1977 Hot Tomorrows

TV Shows/Series with Danny Elfman as Actor(3)

as himself2020 The Holiday Movies That Made Us
as himself2011 Hollywood in Vienna
1989 Prisoners of Gravity

Movies with Danny Elfman as Crew(124)

Sound/Original Music Composer2024 Khodzha Nasreddin
Sound/Original Music Composer2024 Beetlejuice 2
Sound/Original Music Composer2022 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Sound/Original Music Composer2022 White Noise
Sound/Music2021 Aliens, Clowns & Geeks
Sound/Original Music Composer2021 The Woman in the Window
Sound/Music2020 The Final Moments
Sound/Music2020 Dolittle
Sound/Original Music Composer2019 Men in Black: International
Sound/Original Music Composer2019 Dumbo
Sound/Original Music Composer2018 Fifty Shades Freed
Sound/Original Music Composer2018 Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Sound/Music2018 The Grinch
Sound/Original Music Composer2017 Justice League
Sound/Original Music Composer2017 Fifty Shades Darker
Sound/Original Music Composer2017 The Circle
Sound/Original Music Composer2017 Tulip Fever
Sound/Original Music Composer2016 The Girl on the Train
Sound/Original Music Composer2016 Alice Through the Looking Glass
Sound/Original Music Composer2016 Before I Wake
Sound/Original Music Composer2015 Fifty Shades of Grey
Sound/Original Music Composer2015 Goosebumps
Sound/Original Music Composer2015 Avengers: Age of Ultron
Sound/Original Music Composer2015 The End of the Tour
Sound/Original Music Composer2014 Big Eyes
Sound/Music2014 Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Sound/Original Music Composer2013 American Hustle
Sound/Music2013 The Unknown Known
Sound/Original Music Composer2013 Epic
Sound/Music2013 Oz the Great and Powerful
Sound/Original Music Composer2013 Captain Sparky vs. The Flying Saucers
Sound/Music2012 Frankenweenie
Sound/Original Music Composer2012 Dark Shadows
Sound/Original Music Composer2012 Men in Black 3
Sound/Original Music Composer2012 Promised Land
Sound/Original Music Composer2012 Silver Linings Playbook
Sound/Music2012 Hitchcock
Sound/Music2011 Restless
Production/Producer2011 A Conversation with Danny Elfman & Tim Burton
Sound/Original Music Composer2011 Real Steel
Sound/Original Music Composer2010 Alice in Wonderland
Sound/Original Music Composer2010 The Wolfman
Sound/Music2010 Do Not Disturb
Sound/Original Music Composer2010 The Next Three Days
Sound/Music2009 Notorious
Sound/Original Music Composer2009 9
Sound/Original Music Composer2009 Taking Woodstock
Sound/Original Music Composer2009 Terminator Salvation
Sound/Music2008 Proud Iza
Sound/Original Music Composer2008 Milk
Sound/Original Music Composer2008 Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Sound/Original Music Composer2008 Standard Operating Procedure
Sound/Original Music Composer2008 Wanted
Crew/Thanks2007 Sicko
Sound/Original Music Composer2007 Meet the Robinsons
Sound/Original Music Composer2007 The Kingdom
Sound/Original Music Composer2006 Charlotte's Web
Sound/Original Music Composer2006 Nacho Libre
Sound/Original Music Composer2006 Deep Sea 3D
Sound/Original Music Composer2005 Corpse Bride
Sound/Original Music Composer2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Sound/Music2004 Spider-Man 2: Making the Amazing
Sound/Original Music Composer2004 Spider-Man 2
Sound/Original Music Composer2003 Hulk
Sound/Original Music Composer2003 Big Fish
Sound/Original Music Composer2002 Red Dragon
Sound/Original Music Composer2002 Spider-Man
Sound/Original Music Composer2002 Men in Black II
Sound/Original Music Composer2002 Chicago
Sound/Music2001 Novocaine
Sound/Songs2001 Spy Kids
Sound/Original Music Composer2001 Spy Kids
Sound/Original Music Composer2001 Planet of the Apes
Sound/Original Music Composer2000 The Family Man
Sound/Music Producer2000 Psycho Path
Sound/Music2000 The World of Stainboy
Sound/Original Music Composer2000 Proof of Life
Sound/Original Music Composer1999 Instinct
Sound/Original Music Composer1999 Sleepy Hollow
Sound/Music1999 Anywhere but Here
Sound/Music1998 Modern Vampires
Sound/Original Music Composer1998 A Civil Action
Sound/Original Music Composer1998 A Simple Plan
Sound/Music Producer1998 Psycho
Sound/Original Music Composer1997 Flubber
Sound/Original Music Composer1997 Men in Black
Sound/Music1997 Good Will Hunting
Sound/Original Music Composer1996 Mission: Impossible
Sound/Original Music Composer1996 The Frighteners
Sound/Original Music Composer1996 Extreme Measures
Sound/Original Music Composer1996 Freeway
Sound/Original Music Composer1996 Bordello of Blood
Sound/Original Music Composer1996 Mars Attacks!
Sound/Original Music Composer1995 Dead Presidents
Sound/Music1995 Dead Presidents
Sound/Original Music Composer1995 Dolores Claiborne
Sound/Original Music Composer1995 To Die For
Sound/Music1994 Shrunken Heads
Sound/Original Music Composer1994 Black Beauty
Sound/Original Music Composer1993 The Nightmare Before Christmas
Sound/Songs1993 The Nightmare Before Christmas
Sound/Original Music Composer1993 Sommersby
Sound/Music1992 Article 99
Sound/Original Music Composer1992 Batman Returns
Sound/Music1992 The Flash III: Deadly Nightshade
Sound/Original Music Composer1992 Army of Darkness
Sound/Original Music Composer1990 Edward Scissorhands
Sound/Music1990 Dick Tracy
Sound/Original Music Composer1990 Nightbreed
Sound/Original Music Composer1990 Darkman
Sound/Music1990 The Flash
Sound/Original Music Composer1989 Batman
Sound/Original Music Composer1988 Midnight Run
Sound/Music1988 Big Top Pee-wee
Sound/Original Music Composer1988 Scrooged
Sound/Original Music Composer1988 Beetlejuice
Sound/Music1988 Face Like a Frog
Sound/Original Music Composer1988 Hot to Trot
Sound/Original Music Composer1987 Summer School
Sound/Original Music Composer1986 Back to School
Sound/Original Music Composer1986 Amazing Stories
Sound/Music1986 Wisdom
Sound/Original Music Composer1985 Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Sound/Original Music Composer1980 Forbidden Zone

TV Shows/Series with Danny Elfman as Crew(10)

Sound/Original Music Composer2022 Wednesday
Sound/Music2017 When We Rise
Sound/Original Music Composer2017 When We Rise
Sound/Theme Song Performance1997 Perversions of Science
Sound/Main Title Theme Composer1992 Batman: The Animated Series
Sound/Theme Song Performance1989 Tales from the Crypt
Sound/Main Title Theme Composer1989 The Simpsons
Sound/Theme Song Performance1989 The Simpsons
Sound/Music1985 The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Sound/Music1985 Amazing Stories

Additional Information

Full Name: Daniel Robert Elfman
Born: Friday, 05/29 1953 (May) in Los Angeles, California (United States of America (USA)) (current age: 70 years + 331 days)
Zodiac sign: Gemini (Chinese zodiac sign: Snake)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: University High School
Member of: Oingo Boingo
Record Label: Sony Classical
Spouses (current/former): Bridget Fonda
Children: Oliver Elfman
Siblings: Richard Elfman
Mother: Blossom Elfman
Other names for Danny Elfman (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Daniel Robert Elfman"
Danny Elfman frequently works together with these people:
Tim Burton (52x, Crew)
Tress MacNeille (37x, Actress)
Steve Bartek (34x, Crew)
Pamela Hayden (23x, Actress)
Gus Van Sant (20x, Crew)
Bill Abbott (20x, Crew)
Kevin Michael Richardson (17x, Actor)
Maggie Roswell (17x, Actress)
Richard Elfman (16x, Actor)
Sam Raimi (15x, Crew)
Stan Lee (14x, Crew)
Ellen Segal (14x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:12028, Added: 05/06/2018, Last updated: 04/18/2024