Danny Elfman
Sound
🎂 1953-05-29
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.
Cast credits(38)
Bonejangles (voice)
2005
Oompa Loompa (voice) (uncredited)
2005
Jack Skellington (singing) / Barrel / Clown with the Tear away Face (voice)
1993
Tommy Lee Ballard
2000
Self
1989
Oingo Boingo Band Member
1986
Self
2020
Self
2017
Self
2004
Self
2000
Self
1981
Self
1992
Self
2017
Self
1994
Self
2008
Himself
1998
Self - Arranger
2000
Self
2011
Satan
1980
Self
2017
Self
1984
Singer
1977
Narrator
2008
Self
2002
2015
Himself, Waiter
1989
Self
1996
Self - Composer
1993
2011
Self - Lead Vocals, Guitar
1985
Himself
Danny Elfman
1981
Himself
1987
2011
Himself
2005
Narrator (voice)
2010
2000
Sound (150)
Main Title Theme Composer
2022
Main Title Theme Composer
1989
Theme Song Performance
1989
Original Music Composer
2002
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1996
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2015
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2018
Main Title Theme Composer
1992
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2005
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2015
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2011
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2025
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2022
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2017
Original Music Composer
2005
Original Music Composer
2024
Theme Song Performance
1989
Original Music Composer
1993
Songs
1993
Original Music Composer
1997
Original Music Composer
2010
Music
1985
Music
1985
Original Music Composer
2017
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1997
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1990
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1992
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1989
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1988
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2012
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1999
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2018
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2002
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2016
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2003
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2004
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2009
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2003
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2020
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2012
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2007
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2013
Songs
2009
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2001
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1996
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2008
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2015
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2019
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2013
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2012
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2019
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2013
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2014
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2024
Songs
2001
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2001
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2010
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2006
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2002
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2010
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2000
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2021
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1988
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2017
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2001
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1987
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2007
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1995
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2014
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2015
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1993
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1997
Theme Song Performance
1997
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2000
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2016
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1990
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1996
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2022
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2025
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2016
Main Title Theme Composer
1995
Music Producer
1998
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2008
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1986
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2012
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1999
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1998
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1995
Music
1995
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1996
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2012
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1988
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1995
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1996
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1998
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1990
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1985
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1990
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2009
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1999
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2009
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2018
Original Music Composer
1996
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2024
Original Music Composer
1994
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2017
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2011
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1990
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2002
Music
1995
Music
1992
Music
1992
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2006
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1998
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2001
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1988
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1986
Music
2000
Music
2016
Original Music Composer
2026
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1988
Music
1996
Music
2025
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1994
Music
1989
Original Music Composer
Music Producer
2000
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1986
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2013
Original Music Composer
1980
Music
2021
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2008
Music
2024
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2025
Music
1988
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2010
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2023
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2000
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2013
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2013
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2008
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1988
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1988
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1981
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2017
