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