Danny Elfman

Sound

Born May 29, 1953 in Los Angeles, California, USA

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.

Filmography

Hodja Nasreddin

Send Help

Dead Man's Wire

Wednesday: Fireplace

A Danny Elfman Christmas Story

Narrator

Tim Burton: Life in the Line

Self

Dracula

Bullet Time

Remember To Enjoy The Light Before It’s Gone

The Simpsons: O C'mon All Ye Faithful

Edward Scissorhands: Matthew Bourne’s Dance Version

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Tim Burton: Life in the Line

Self

May the 12th Be with You

Bloody Bridget

White Noise

Wednesday

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

The Woman in the Window

Aliens, Clowns & Geeks

The Holiday Movies That Made Us

Self

The Nightmare Before Christmas in Concert

Dolittle

Men in Black: International

Dumbo

The Grinch

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot

Fifty Shades Freed

Justice League

78/52

Self

Hollywood in Vienna 2017 - Fairytales

Self

Tulip Fever

Urge

The Circle

Score: A Film Music Documentary

Self

When We Rise

Fifty Shades Darker

The Girl on the Train

Vengadores Chiflados: La Era de Pultrón

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Before I Wake

Live From Lincoln Center: Danny Elfman's Music from the Films of Tim Burton

Medieval Times: The Making of "Army of Darkness"

Goosebumps

The End of the Tour

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Fifty Shades of Grey

Big Eyes

Mr. Peabody & Sherman

American Hustle

The Unknown Known

Epic

Oz the Great and Powerful

Cirque du Soleil: IRIS

Captain Sparky vs. The Flying Saucers

Hitchcock

Silver Linings Playbook

Frankenweenie

Promised Land

Men in Black 3

Dark Shadows

Real Steel

Hollywood in Vienna

Self

Restless

A Conversation with Danny Elfman & Tim Burton

Oingo Boingo: 1983 US Festival

The Next Three Days

DemiUrge Emesis

Narrator (voice)

Alice in Wonderland

The Wolfman

Taking Woodstock

Terminator Salvation

Notorious

Milk

Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight

Self

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Wanted

Standard Operating Procedure

Proud Iza

Narrator

The Kingdom

The Simpsons Movie

Paranoid Park

Sicko

Meet the Robinsons

Charlotte's Web

Nacho Libre

Deep Sea 3D

Corpse Bride

Bonejangles (voice)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Oompa Loompa (voice) (uncredited)

Spider-Man 2: Making the Amazing

Self

Spider-Man 2

Behind the Scenes of 'Spider-Man'

Self

Big Fish

Hulk

Chicago

Cosmic Symphonies: Elfman in Space

Self

Red Dragon

Men in Black II

Spider-Man

Novocaine

Planet of the Apes

Heartbreakers

Spy Kids

The Gift

Tommy Lee Ballard

The Family Man

Proof of Life

The World of Stainboy

Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend

Self

Fantasporto – Carnaval no Porto

Sleepy Hollow

Anywhere but Here

Psycho Path

Self - Arranger

Instinct

A Civil Action

A Simple Plan

Psycho

The Making of 'The Frighteners'

Self

Modern Vampires

Good Will Hunting

Flubber

Men in Black

Perversions of Science

Mars Attacks!

Extreme Measures

Freeway

Bordello of Blood

The Frighteners

Mission: Impossible

Oingo Boingo: Farewell (Live from the Universal Amphitheatre)

Self

Darkman III: Die Darkman Die

Dead Presidents

To Die For

Darkman II: The Return of Durant

Dolores Claiborne

Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Special Edition

Self

Black Beauty

Shrunken Heads

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Jack Skellington (singing) / Barrel / Clown with the Tear away Face (voice)

The Making of Tim Burton's 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'

Self - Composer

Sommersby

The Flash III: Deadly Nightshade

The Magical World of Chuck Jones

Self

Batman: The Animated Series

Batman Returns

Article 99

Edward Scissorhands

The Flash

Darkman

Dick Tracy

Nightbreed

The Simpsons

Oh No, Not Them

Prisoners of Gravity

Self

Batman

Tales from the Crypt

Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton

Oingo Boingo: Skeletons in the Closet

Himself, Waiter

Scrooged

Face Like a Frog

Hot to Trot

Big Top Pee-wee

Midnight Run

Beetlejuice

Oingo Boingo: Halloween '87

Himself

Summer School

Wisdom

Amazing Stories

Back to School

Oingo Boingo Band Member

Oingo Boingo: Live at the Ritz

Self - Lead Vocals, Guitar

Amazing Stories

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Pee-wee's Big Adventure

Good Morning, Mr. Orwell

Self

Forbidden Zone

Satan

Urgh! A Music War

Self

Annie Hall

Lacey Party Guest (uncredited)

Hot Tomorrows

Singer

Saturday Night Live

Self - Cameo (uncredited)