Actor

Alan Menken

Sound

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Movies: 51Series: 2Crew credits: 40

TMDB ID: 15813

IMDb ID: nm0579678

Known for: Sound

Born: July 22, 1949

Age: 76

Place of birth: New Rochelle, New York, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1986 - 2024

Years active: 39

Average TMDB rating: 6.76

Wikidata: Q317272

Also known as

Alan Irwin Menken

Other jobs

Original Music Composer (18)Music (9)Songs (8)Musical (2)Additional Music (1)Executive Producer (1)Lyricist (1)

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Biography

Alan Irwin Menken (born July 12, 1949) is an American composer, pianist, music director, and record producer, best known for his scores and songs for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. Menken's music for The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), and Pocahontas (1995) has each won him two Academy Awards. He also composed the scores and songs for Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Newsies (1992), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), Hercules (1997), Home on the Range (2004), Enchanted (2007), Tangled (2010), and Disenchanted (2022), among others. His accolades include winning eight Academy Awards — becoming the second most prolific Oscar winner in the music categories after Alfred Newman (who has 9 Oscars), a Tony Award, eleven Grammy Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, and a Daytime Emmy Award. Menken is one of nineteen people to have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony ("an EGOT").