Acting credits
38
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.

Sound
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Acting credits
38
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
TMDB popularity
1.1
Low visibility
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TMDB ID: 531
IMDb ID: nm0000384
Known for: Sound
Born: May 29, 1953
Age: 72
Place of birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1975 - 2026
Years active: 52
Average TMDB rating: 6.62
Wikidata: Q193338
Also known as
Daniel Robert Elfman
Other jobs
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.


Movie credits linked with Danny Elfman.
Original Music Composer
Music
Original Music Composer
Main Title Theme Composer
as Narrator
Original Music Composer
Music
Original Music Composer
Main Title Theme Composer
Music
Original Music Composer
as Self
Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
Music
Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
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Original Music Composer
Series credits linked with Danny Elfman.
as Self • 4 eps
Main Title Theme Composer • 16 eps
as Self • 1 eps
Original Music Composer • 4 eps
as Self • 1 eps
Music • 6 eps
Theme Song Performance • 8 eps
Main Title Theme Composer • 85 eps
Main Title Theme Composer • 801 eps
as Self • 1 eps
Theme Song Performance • 81 eps
Music • 1 eps
Music • 2 eps
Music • 1 eps
as Self - Cameo (uncredited) • 1 eps