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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1953-05-29 (71 years old)

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.

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Known For

Acting

2020

2017

78/52 as Self

2015

2011

2010

DemiUrge Emesis as Narrator (voice)

2008

Proud Iza as Narrator

2005

Corpse Bride as Bonejangles (voice)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as Oompa Loompa (voice) (uncredited)

2004

2002

2000

Psycho Path as Self - Arranger
The Gift as Tommy Lee Ballard

1998

1996

1994

1993

The Nightmare Before Christmas as Jack Skellington (singing) / Barrel / Clown with the Tear away Face (voice)

1992

1989

1987

1986

Back to School as Oingo Boingo Band Member

1985

Oingo Boingo: Live at the Ritz as Self - Lead Vocals, Guitar

1984

1981

1980

1977

Hot Tomorrows as Singer

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Sound

2025

Khodzha Nasreddin as Original Music Composer
Dracula as Original Music Composer
The Weeknd - Hurry Up Tomorrow as Original Music Composer

2024

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice as Original Music Composer
The Simpsons: O C'mon All Ye Faithful as Original Music Composer
May the 12th Be with You as Original Music Composer

2023

Bloody Bridget as Original Music Composer

2022

White Noise as Original Music Composer
Wednesday as Original Music Composer

2021

The Woman in the Window as Original Music Composer

2020

Dolittle as Original Music Composer

2019

Dumbo as Original Music Composer
Men in Black: International as Original Music Composer

2018

The Grinch as Original Music Composer
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot as Original Music Composer
Fifty Shades Freed as Original Music Composer

2017

Fifty Shades Darker as Original Music Composer
The Circle as Original Music Composer
Justice League as Original Music Composer
Tulip Fever as Original Music Composer
Urge as Music
When We Rise as Original Music Composer

2016

Alice Through the Looking Glass as Original Music Composer
Before I Wake as Original Music Composer
The Girl on the Train as Original Music Composer

2015

The End of the Tour as Original Music Composer
Avengers: Age of Ultron as Original Music Composer
Goosebumps as Original Music Composer
Fifty Shades of Grey as Original Music Composer

2014

Mr. Peabody & Sherman as Original Music Composer
Big Eyes as Original Music Composer

2013

Epic as Original Music Composer
American Hustle as Original Music Composer
Captain Sparky vs. The Flying Saucers as Original Music Composer
Oz the Great and Powerful as Original Music Composer

2012

Men in Black 3 as Original Music Composer
Dark Shadows as Original Music Composer
Silver Linings Playbook as Original Music Composer
Promised Land as Original Music Composer
Frankenweenie as Original Music Composer
Hitchcock as Original Music Composer

2011

Real Steel as Original Music Composer
Restless as Original Music Composer

2010

Alice in Wonderland as Original Music Composer
The Next Three Days as Original Music Composer
The Wolfman as Original Music Composer

2009

Terminator Salvation as Original Music Composer
Taking Woodstock as Original Music Composer
9 as Songs
Notorious as Original Music Composer

2008

Hellboy II: The Golden Army as Original Music Composer
Standard Operating Procedure as Original Music Composer
Wanted as Original Music Composer
Milk as Original Music Composer
Proud Iza as Music

2007

The Kingdom as Original Music Composer
Meet the Robinsons as Original Music Composer

2006

Charlotte's Web as Original Music Composer
Deep Sea 3D as Original Music Composer
Nacho Libre as Original Music Composer

2005

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as Original Music Composer
Corpse Bride as Original Music Composer

2004

Spider-Man 2 as Original Music Composer

2003

Big Fish as Original Music Composer
Hulk as Original Music Composer

2002

Spider-Man as Original Music Composer
Chicago as Original Music Composer
Men in Black II as Original Music Composer
Red Dragon as Original Music Composer

2001

Planet of the Apes as Original Music Composer
Spy Kids as Songs
Spy Kids as Original Music Composer
Novocaine as Original Music Composer
Heartbreakers as Original Music Composer

2000

The Family Man as Original Music Composer
Proof of Life as Original Music Composer
Psycho Path as Music Producer

1999

Sleepy Hollow as Original Music Composer
Anywhere but Here as Original Music Composer
Instinct as Original Music Composer

1998

A Simple Plan as Original Music Composer
A Civil Action as Original Music Composer
Psycho as Music Producer
Modern Vampires as Original Music Composer

1997

Men in Black as Original Music Composer
Good Will Hunting as Original Music Composer
Flubber as Original Music Composer
Perversions of Science as Theme Song Performance

1996

Mars Attacks! as Original Music Composer
The Frighteners as Original Music Composer
Mission: Impossible as Original Music Composer
Freeway as Original Music Composer
Extreme Measures as Original Music Composer
Bordello of Blood as Original Music Composer

1995

To Die For as Original Music Composer
Dead Presidents as Original Music Composer
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight as Main Title Theme Composer
Dolores Claiborne as Original Music Composer

1994

Black Beauty as Original Music Composer

1993

Sommersby as Original Music Composer
The Nightmare Before Christmas as Original Music Composer

1992

Batman Returns as Original Music Composer
Article 99 as Music
Batman: The Animated Series as Main Title Theme Composer

1990

Edward Scissorhands as Original Music Composer
Darkman as Original Music Composer
Nightbreed as Original Music Composer
Dick Tracy as Original Music Composer
The Flash as Original Music Composer

1989

Batman as Original Music Composer
The Simpsons as Main Title Theme Composer
The Simpsons as Theme Song Performance
Tales from the Crypt as Theme Song Performance

1988

Beetlejuice as Original Music Composer
Midnight Run as Original Music Composer
Scrooged as Original Music Composer
Hot to Trot as Original Music Composer
Big Top Pee-wee as Original Music Composer
Family Dog as Music
Face Like a Frog as Original Music Composer

1987

Summer School as Original Music Composer

1986

Back to School as Original Music Composer
Amazing Stories as Original Music Composer
Wisdom as Original Music Composer

1985

Pee-wee's Big Adventure as Original Music Composer

1980

Forbidden Zone as Original Music Composer

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Dead Man's Wire as Original Music Composer

Production

Crew

2007

Sicko as Thanks
Paranoid Park as Thanks

Writing