Danny Elfman

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.

Known For: Sound

Born: Los Angeles, California, USA, 1953-05-29

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1977	Hot Tomorrows	Singer	60
2	1980	Forbidden Zone	Satan	63
3	1981	Oingo Boingo: Little Girls	Danny Elfman	100
4	1981	Urgh! A Music War	Self	73
5	1984	Good Morning, Mr. Orwell	Self	81
6	1985	Oingo Boingo: Live at the Ritz	Self - Lead Vocals, Guitar	80
7	1986	Back to School	Oingo Boingo Band Member	63
8	1987	Oingo Boingo: Halloween '87	Himself	100
9	1989	Oingo Boingo: Skeletons in the Closet	Himself, Waiter	0
10	1992	The Magical World of Chuck Jones	Self	80
11	1993	The Making of Tim Burton's 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'	Self - Composer	0
12	1993	The Nightmare Before Christmas	Jack Skellington (singing) / Barrel / Clown with the Tear away Face (voice)	78
13	1994	How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Special Edition	Self	81
14	1996	Oingo Boingo: Farewell (Live from the Universal Amphitheatre)	Self	100
15	1998	The Making of 'The Frighteners'	Himself	88
16	2000	Fantasporto – Carnaval no Porto		0
17	2000	The Gift	Tommy Lee Ballard	65
18	2000	Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend	Self	70
19	2005	Corpse Bride	Bonejangles (voice)	76
20		Oingo Boingo: October 25th, 1990		0
21	2000	Psycho Path	Self - Arranger	67
22	2002	Cosmic Symphonies: Elfman in Space	Self	0
23	2004	Behind the Scenes of 'Spider-Man'	Self	0
24	2005	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	Oompa Loompa (voice) (uncredited)	70
25	2005	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Sweet Sounds	Himself	85
26	2008	Proud Iza	Narrator	0
27	2008	Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight	Self	0
28	2010	DemiUrge Emesis	Narrator (voice)	60
29	2011	Oingo Boingo: 1983 US Festival		0
30	2011	A Conversation with Danny Elfman & Tim Burton		0
31	2015	Live From Lincoln Center: Danny Elfman's Music from the Films of Tim Burton		84
32	2017	Score: A Film Music Documentary	Self	71
33	2017	Hollywood in Vienna 2017 - Fairytales	Self	0
34		A Look Into 'The Forbidden Zone'	Himself	70
35	2017	78/52	Self	73

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1989	Prisoners of Gravity	Self	57
2	2011	Hollywood in Vienna	Self	0
3	2020	The Holiday Movies That Made Us	Self	72

Danny Elfman

Film

Television