Search - Artist/Band: Danny Elfman

• Name: Danny Elfman
• Birthday: 05/29/1953
• Birth Place: Amarillo, TX
• Decades Active: 1980,1990,2000
• Genre: Soundtrack
• Styles: Film Music, Original Score, Soundtracks
• Moods: Ambitious, Lively, Theatrical, Atmospheric, Complex, Sophisticated, Wistful, Elegant, Stylish, Amiable/Good-Natured, Dramatic, Reflective, Uplifting, Brooding, Melancholy, Happy

Title	Release
Taking Woodstock [Original Score]	09/29/2009
Terminator Salvation [Soundtrack] WA	05/19/2009
Milk WA	11/25/2008
Hellboy II: The Golden Army [Score] WA	07/15/2008
Wanted [Original Soundtrack] WA	06/24/2008
Standard Operating Procedure [Score] WA	05/06/2008
The Kingdom [Original Score] WA	10/08/2007
Meet the Robinsons WA	03/27/2007
Charlotte's Web [2006 Score]	12/05/2006
Serenada Schizophrana WA	10/03/2006
The Corpse Bride WA	09/20/2005
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory WA	07/12/2005
Spider-Man 2 [Original Soundtrack]	06/22/2004
Big Fish WA	12/23/2003
Hulk	06/17/2003
Red Dragon [Original Score]	09/24/2002
Men in Black II	06/25/2002
Spider-Man [Original Score] WA	06/04/2002
Planet of the Apes [2001 Score]	07/24/2001
Proof of Life [Original Score]	12/12/2000
Sleepy Hollow [Original Score] WA	11/16/1999
Instinct [Original Score] WA	06/15/1999
A Simple Plan [Original Score] WA	01/26/1999
A Civil Action	12/15/1998
Men in Black [Original Score] WA	12/09/1997
Flubber [Original Score]	11/18/1997
Mars Attacks! WA	03/04/1997
Music for a Darkened Theater, Vol. 2: Film & Television Music WA	12/03/1996
The Frighteners WA	07/15/1996
Mission: Impossible [Original Score]	06/18/1996
Dolores Claiborne WA	1995
To Die For WA	1995
Black Beauty [Original Score] WA	07/19/1994
Sommersby WA	1993
The Nightmare Before Christmas WA	1993
Article 99 WA	1992
Batman Returns WA	1992
Nightbreed WA	03/20/1990
Dick Tracy [Original Score] WA	02/1990
Music for a Darkened Theatre, Vol. 1: Film & Television Music	01/01/1990
Darkman WA	1990
Edward Scissorhands WA	1990
Beetlejuice WA	1988
Big Top Pee Wee WA	1988
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure/Back to School WA	1986
So Lo WA	1984
Forbidden Zone WA	1980

Best known for his work in collaboration with director Tim Burton, composer Danny Elfman created one of the most distinctive bodies of work in contemporary film music, bringing his talents to a dark fantasy world populated by superheroes, monsters and freaks. The son of novelist Blossom Elfman, he was born May 29, 1953 in Amarillo, Texas; raised in Los Angeles, he and brother Richard relocated to France in 1971, where he joined a theatrical group. Elfman subsequently moved on to Africa, returning to the U.S. only after battling a bout with malaria; he then reunited with Richard, who had directed the 1980 film The Forbidden Zone and asked Danny to compose the score. Assembling a band dubbed the Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo, Elfman recorded the movie's soundtrack; abbreviated to simply Oingo Boingo, the group remained a going concern following the project's completion, later earning a significant cult following during the New Wave era.

In 1985 Elfman met fledgling filmmaker Burton; after collaborating on the score to the hit Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, they reunited frequently in the years to come, with Elfman composing the music to later Burton projects including Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Mars Attacks! and the Grammy-winning Batman. In 1993 Elfman also scored the Burton-produced Nightmare Before Christmas, dubbing the vocals of the animated musical's lead character Jack Skellington. Outside of Burton's sphere of influence, Elfman also scored a number of other features, most of them strange fables such as Darkman, Dick Tracy, Army of Darkness and The Frighteners; in 1997, he composed the music for Men in Black, the summer's biggest hit. Among his television work: the theme song to The Simpsons. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide