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Danny Elfman
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Danny Elfman is an American composer and musician born in 1953 who has become one of the most recognizable creators of film and television music. His work matters because his distinctive musical style has shaped the soundtracks of countless popular movies and shows that audiences worldwide have enjoyed and remembered.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 33
Top works
- Danny Elfman Spooktacular : Featuring
- Beetlejuice
- Simpsons Songbook
- At the Movies with Danny Elfman : Featuring
- Danny Elfman -- Piano Quartet
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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…
Known for
- A Danny Elfman Christmas Story — Narrator2025
- Tim Burton: Life in the Line — Self2025
- Tim Burton: Life in the Line — Self2024
- The Holiday Movies That Made Us — Self2020
- Hollywood in Vienna 2017 - Fairytales — Self2017
- Score: A Film Music Documentary — Self2017
- 78/52 — Self2017
- Live From Lincoln Center: Danny Elfman's Music from the Films of Tim Burton2015
- Oingo Boingo: 1983 US Festival2011
- A Conversation with Danny Elfman & Tim Burton2011
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1953
Discography
Member of
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- 1,623,801
- Total plays
- 34,402,267
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Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman (born May 29, 1953 in Los Angeles, CA) is an American composer, best known as the lead singer and songwriter for the rock band Oingo Boingo, from 1976 to 1995 and later for scoring music for television and film and creating The Simpsons main title theme as well as the 1989 Batman movie theme. He has scored the majority of the films for his long-time friend Tim Burton. Born in Los Angeles, he entered the film industry in 1976, initially as an actor. <a href="https://
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Robert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Los Angeles
- Sibling
- Richard Elfman
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- Christianity
- Genre
- ska
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Sony Classical
- Official website
- www.dannyelfman.com
- Image
- 20220610 dannyelfman by sachynmital (cropped).jpg
- Number of children
- 3
- Work location
- New York City
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- date of birth
- 1953-05-29
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Original Score
- start of work period
- 1972-00-00
- birth name
- Daniel Robert Elfman
- name in native language
- Danny Elfman
- social media followers
- 163000
- member of
- Oingo Boingo
- writing language
- English language
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- Category:Films scored by Danny Elfman
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Encyclopedic overview
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, Meet the Robinsons, 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.
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