Danny Elfman
Sound
Born: May 29, 1953 (age 73) · Los Angeles, California, USA
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
Avengers: Age of Ultron
2015
Spider-Man
2002
Spider-Man 2
2004
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005
Men in Black
1997
Alice in Wonderland
2010
Good Will Hunting
1997
Edward Scissorhands
1990
Justice League
2017
Silver Linings Playbook
2012
Fifty Shades of Grey
2015
Men in Black 3
2012
Photos (2)
Movies (16)
Corpse Bride
Bonejangles (voice)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Oompa Loompa (voice) (uncredited)
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Jack Skellington (singing) / Barrel / Clown with the Tear away Face (voice)
The Gift
Tommy Lee Ballard
Annie Hall
Lacey Party Guest (uncredited)
Back to School
Oingo Boingo Band Member
Forbidden Zone
Satan
Hot Tomorrows
Singer
Proud Iza
Narrator
A Danny Elfman Christmas Story
Narrator
Fantasporto – Carnaval no Porto
2000
A Conversation with Danny Elfman & Tim Burton
2011
Live From Lincoln Center: Danny Elfman's Music from the Films of Tim Burton
2015
Oingo Boingo: 1983 US Festival
2011
DemiUrge Emesis
Narrator (voice)
Becoming Oompa-Loompa
2005
Self / Appearances (24)
Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited) · 1 eps
Prisoners of Gravity
Self · 1 eps
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
Self · 4 eps
Urgh! A Music War
Self
78/52
Self
The Holiday Movies That Made Us
Self · 1 eps
Score: A Film Music Documentary
Self
Hollywood in Vienna
Self · 1 eps
The Magical World of Chuck Jones
Self
Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend
Self
Spider-Man 2: Making the Amazing
Self
Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight
Self
The Making of 'The Frighteners'
Self
Good Morning, Mr. Orwell
Self
The Making of Tim Burton's 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'
Self - Composer
Psycho Path
Self - Arranger
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Special Edition
Self
Behind the Scenes of 'Spider-Man'
Self
Oingo Boingo: Live at the Ritz
Self - Lead Vocals, Guitar
Oingo Boingo: Halloween '87
Himself
Cosmic Symphonies: Elfman in Space
Self
Oingo Boingo: Skeletons in the Closet
Himself, Waiter
Oingo Boingo: Farewell (Live from the Universal Amphitheatre)
Self
Hollywood in Vienna 2017 - Fairytales
Self
Upcoming (1)
Writing (1)
Producing (1)
Other Crew (155)
The Simpsons
Main Title Theme Composer
Spider-Man
Original Music Composer
Wednesday
Main Title Theme Composer
Wednesday
Original Music Composer
Stuart Fails to Save the Universe
Main Title Theme Composer
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Original Music Composer
Batman: The Animated Series
Main Title Theme Composer
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Original Music Composer
Tales from the Crypt
Theme Song Performance
Send Help
Original Music Composer
Fifty Shades of Grey
Original Music Composer
Real Steel
Original Music Composer
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Original Music Composer
Good Will Hunting
Original Music Composer
Fifty Shades Freed
Original Music Composer
Corpse Bride
Original Music Composer
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Music
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Original Music Composer
Dracula
Original Music Composer
Alice in Wonderland
Original Music Composer
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Original Music Composer
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Songs
Spider-Man 2
Original Music Composer
Amazing Stories
Music
The Simpsons Movie
Main Title Theme Composer
Justice League
Original Music Composer
Men in Black
Original Music Composer
Hulk
Original Music Composer
Batman
Original Music Composer
Mission: Impossible
Original Music Composer
Edward Scissorhands
Original Music Composer
The Grinch
Original Music Composer
Silver Linings Playbook
Original Music Composer
Beetlejuice
Original Music Composer
Terminator Salvation
Original Music Composer
Batman Returns
Original Music Composer
Oz the Great and Powerful
Original Music Composer
Men in Black: International
Original Music Composer
Sleepy Hollow
Original Music Composer
Men in Black II
Original Music Composer
9
Songs
9
Original Music Composer
Wanted
Original Music Composer
Fifty Shades Darker
Original Music Composer
Dead Man's Wire
Original Music Composer
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Original Music Composer
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Original Music Composer
Epic
Original Music Composer
Big Fish
Original Music Composer
Dolittle
Original Music Composer
Dark Shadows
Original Music Composer
Men in Black 3
Original Music Composer
The Next Three Days
Original Music Composer
Planet of the Apes
Original Music Composer
Meet the Robinsons
Original Music Composer
The Girl on the Train
Original Music Composer
Mars Attacks!
Original Music Composer
Spy Kids
Songs
Spy Kids
Original Music Composer
American Hustle
Original Music Composer
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Original Music Composer
Goosebumps
Original Music Composer
Frankenweenie
Original Music Composer
Dumbo
Original Music Composer
The Wolfman
Original Music Composer
The Frighteners
Original Music Composer
The Family Man
Original Music Composer
The Woman in the Window
Original Music Composer
The Circle
Original Music Composer
Nacho Libre
Original Music Composer
Charlotte's Web
Original Music Composer
The Kingdom
Original Music Composer
Dolores Claiborne
Original Music Composer
Chicago
Original Music Composer
Flubber
Original Music Composer
Midnight Run
Original Music Composer
Tulip Fever
Original Music Composer
Darkman
Original Music Composer
Milk
Original Music Composer
Dick Tracy
Original Music Composer
May the 12th Be with You
Original Music Composer
Perversions of Science
Theme Song Performance
Instinct
Original Music Composer
Scrooged
Original Music Composer
Proof of Life
Original Music Composer
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
Main Title Theme Composer
Before I Wake
Original Music Composer
To Die For
Original Music Composer
Heartbreakers
Original Music Composer
Back to School
Original Music Composer
Bordello of Blood
Main Title Theme Composer
The Simpsons: O C'mon All Ye Faithful
Main Title Theme Composer
A Simple Plan
Original Music Composer
Psycho
Music Producer
Sommersby
Original Music Composer
Hitchcock
Original Music Composer
Black Beauty
Original Music Composer
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Original Music Composer
White Noise
Original Music Composer
Nightbreed
Original Music Composer
A Civil Action
Original Music Composer
Dead Presidents
Original Music Composer
Dead Presidents
Music
When We Rise
Original Music Composer
Big Eyes
Original Music Composer
Extreme Measures
Original Music Composer
Darkman III: Die Darkman Die
Original Music Composer
Anywhere but Here
Original Music Composer
Notorious
Original Music Composer
Freeway
Original Music Composer
Sicko
Thanks
Darkman II: The Return of Durant
Music
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Original Music Composer
Maggie Simpson in "Playdate with Destiny"
Main Title Theme Composer
Promised Land
Original Music Composer
Summer School
Original Music Composer
Paranoid Park
Thanks
Taking Woodstock
Original Music Composer
The End of the Tour
Original Music Composer
Deep Sea 3D
Original Music Composer
Article 99
Original Music Composer
The Flash
Original Music Composer
Red Dragon
Original Music Composer
Big Top Pee-wee
Original Music Composer
Restless
Original Music Composer
The World of Stainboy
Music
Novocaine
Original Music Composer
Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton
Music
Forbidden Zone
Original Music Composer
Modern Vampires
Original Music Composer
Amazing Stories
Original Music Composer
Hot to Trot
Original Music Composer
Wisdom
Original Music Composer
Shrunken Heads
Music
Edward Scissorhands: Matthew Bourne's Dance Version
Music
Oh No, Not Them
Music
Standard Operating Procedure
Original Music Composer
Medieval Times: The Making of "Army of Darkness"
Music
Vengadores Chiflados: La Era de Pultrón
Music
Aliens, Clowns & Geeks
Original Music Composer
The Flash III: Deadly Nightshade
Music
Psycho Path
Music Producer
The Unknown Known
Music
Proud Iza
Music
Captain Sparky vs. The Flying Saucers
Original Music Composer
Remember To Enjoy The Light Before It’s Gone
Original Music Composer
Bullet Time
Music
Bloody Bridget
Original Music Composer
Urge
Music
The World of Stainboy
Music
The Nightmare Before Christmas in Concert
Music
Face Like a Frog
Music
Face Like a Frog
Original Music Composer
Cirque du Soleil: IRIS
Music
Wednesday: Fireplace
Main Title Theme Composer