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Danny Elfman

Personal Info

Known For

Sound

Birthdate

1953-05-29 (Age: 73)

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Danny Elfman

Biography

Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American film composer, singer, songwriter, and musician. He came to prominence as the lead vocalist 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, Batman Returns, Mars Attacks!, Sleepy Hollow, Big Fish, and Alice in Wonderland, as well as scoring Raimi's Darkman, A Simple Plan, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Oz the Great and Powerful, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Van Sant's Academy Award-winning films Good Will Hunting and Milk. He wrote music for all of the Men in Black and Fifty Shades of Grey franchise films, the songs and score for Henry Selick's animated musical The Nightmare Before Christmas, and the themes for the popular television series Desperate Housewives and The Simpsons. Among his honours are four Oscar nominations, three Emmy Awards, a Grammy, seven Saturn Awards for Best Music, the 2002 Richard Kirk Award, the 2015 Disney Legend Award, the Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award in 2017, and the Society of Composers & Lyricists Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022. Description above from the Wikipedia article Danny Elfman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography (40)

⭐ 5.0 Role: Narrator

A Danny Elfman Christmas Story

2025
⭐ 0 Role: Self

Tim Burton: Life in the Line

2024
⭐ 7.2 Role: Self

78/52

2017
⭐ 0 Role: Self

Hollywood in Vienna 2017 - Fairytales

2017
⭐ 7.1 Role: Self

Score: A Film Music Documentary

2017
⭐ 8.4 Role: Unknown

Live From Lincoln Center: Danny Elfman's Music from the Films of Tim Burton

2015
⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

A Conversation with Danny Elfman & Tim Burton

2011
⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

Oingo Boingo: 1983 US Festival

2011
⭐ 6.0 Role: Narrator (voice)

DemiUrge Emesis

2010
⭐ 0 Role: Self

Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight

2008
⭐ 0 Role: Narrator

Proud Iza

2008
No Image
⭐ 8.5 Role: Himself

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Sweet Sounds

2005
⭐ 7.6 Role: Bonejangles (voice)

Corpse Bride

2005
⭐ 7.0 Role: Oompa Loompa (voice) (uncredited)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

2005
⭐ 6.7 Role: Self

Spider-Man 2: Making the Amazing

2004