Danny Elfman
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Biography
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.
Known For
Production Credits
Spider-Man 2: Making the Amazing
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Men in Black II
Red Dragon
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Chicago
Fifty Shades of Grey
Amazing Stories
Men in Black: International
Spy Kids
Summer School
9
Alice in Wonderland
Captain Sparky vs. The Flying Saucers
American Hustle
The Next Three Days
The Circle
Hulk
The Frighteners
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Frankenweenie
Big Eyes
65
Wednesday
Batman Returns
The Girl on the Train
Goosebumps
The Family Man
Before I Wake
Mission: Impossible
Tulip Fever
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Dolittle
Fifty Shades Darker
Batman: The Animated Series
A Civil Action
Planet of the Apes
Mars Attacks!
Men in Black
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Vengadores Chiflados: La Era de Pultrón
A Simple Plan
The Flash
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Real Steel
The Simpsons Movie
Justice League
Nacho Libre
The Simpsons
Dark Shadows
Tales from the Crypt
To Die For
White Noise
Novocaine
Hot to Trot
Perversions of Science
Big Fish
Notorious
Batman
Milk
Edward Scissorhands
The Woman in the Window
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Midnight Run
The Kingdom
Men in Black 3
Scrooged
Sleepy Hollow
Charlotte's Web
Good Will Hunting
Corpse Bride
Flubber
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Dumbo
Big Top Pee-wee
Psycho
Modern Vampires
Dracula
Fifty Shades Freed
Wanted
Oz the Great and Powerful
Terminator Salvation
Spider-Man
Spider-Man 2
Beetlejuice
The Grinch
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Silver Linings Playbook
Meet the Robinsons
Epic
Heartbreakers
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