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.
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Movie Credits
Danny Elfman has appeared in 32 movies.
Some of the most popular movies include:
TV Credits
Danny Elfman has appeared in 3 TV Series.
These include
Hollywood in Vienna,
The Holiday Movies That Made Us and
Prisoners of Gravity.
Production Credits
Danny Elfman has 136 production credits.
Sound
Credited for Original Music Composer in 91 shows -
Forbidden Zone,
Pee-wee's Big Adventure,
Back to School,
Amazing Stories,
Summer School,
Beetlejuice,
Midnight Run,
Hot to Trot,
Scrooged,
Batman,
Nightbreed,
Darkman,
Edward Scissorhands,
Batman Returns,
Army of Darkness,
Sommersby,
The Nightmare Before Christmas,
Black Beauty,
Dolores Claiborne,
To Die For,
Dead Presidents,
Mission: Impossible,
The Frighteners,
Bordello of Blood,
Freeway,
Extreme Measures,
Mars Attacks!,
Men in Black,
Flubber,
A Simple Plan,
A Civil Action,
Instinct,
Sleepy Hollow,
Proof of Life,
The Family Man,
Spy Kids,
Heartbreakers,
Planet of the Apes,
Spider-Man,
Men in Black II,
Red Dragon,
Chicago,
Hulk,
Big Fish,
Spider-Man 2,
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,
Corpse Bride,
Deep Sea 3D,
Nacho Libre,
Charlotte's Web,
Meet the Robinsons,
The Kingdom,
Standard Operating Procedure,
Wanted,
Hellboy II: The Golden Army,
Milk,
Terminator Salvation,
9,
Taking Woodstock,
The Wolfman,
Alice in Wonderland,
The Next Three Days,
Real Steel,
Dark Shadows,
Men in Black 3,
Promised Land,
Silver Linings Playbook,
Captain Sparky vs. The Flying Saucers,
Epic,
American Hustle,
Big Eyes,
Fifty Shades of Grey,
Avengers: Age of Ultron,
The End of the Tour,
Goosebumps,
Before I Wake,
Alice Through the Looking Glass,
The Girl on the Train,
Fifty Shades Darker,
The Circle,
Tulip Fever,
Justice League,
Fifty Shades Freed,
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot,
Dumbo,
Men in Black: International,
The Woman in the Window,
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,
Wednesday,
White Noise and
Beetlejuice 2.
Credited for Music in 34 shows -
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents,
Amazing Stories,
Wisdom,
Big Top Pee-wee,
Face Like a Frog,
Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton,
Dick Tracy,
The Flash,
Article 99,
The Flash III: Deadly Nightshade,
Shrunken Heads,
Dead Presidents,
Good Will Hunting,
Modern Vampires,
Anywhere but Here,
The World of Stainboy,
Novocaine,
Spider-Man 2: Making the Amazing,
Proud Iza,
Notorious,
Do Not Disturb,
Restless,
Frankenweenie,
Hitchcock,
Cirque du Soleil: IRIS,
Oz the Great and Powerful,
The Unknown Known,
Mr. Peabody & Sherman,
Vengadores Chiflados: La Era de Pultrón,
When We Rise,
The Grinch,
Dolittle,
The Final Moments and
Aliens, Clowns & Geeks.
Production
Crew
Credited for Thanks in 1 show -
Sicko.
