Daniel Robert Elfman was born on May 29, 1953 in Amarillo, Tx. At a young age he soon moved to
the Los Angeles area where he spent his childhood. He was born to the parents of Milton and Blossom
Elfman. His father, Milton, was a teacher and his mother, Blossom, was a novelist. Danny has one
older brother named Richard Elfman, who happens to be a director to such films as
Forbidden Zone and Shrunken
Heads. Danny has two daughters namedLola and Mali. When Danny was eighteen, he moved with
his brother to France where he joined a theater group, this is where he became acquainted with the
many different instruments of the orchestra. Then after some years he moved to Africa where he
caught malaria, which caused him to move back to the States in late 1970's. In 1980, Danny helped
his brother make the film Forbidden Zone by composing the
music with a band known as The Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo.
Richard and Danny Elfman put together the band for the movie but then they became so popular that
they came out with some albums and toured until 1995. Danny Elfman was a member and their songwriter
of the band that soon changed its name to Oingo Boingo and then
Boingo in its later years.
so that he could ask for his help on creating the music for his first movie
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. Tim Burton loved the music so much that he had Danny Elfman do
the movie scores for all his films ever made. That led to the project of
The Nightmare Before Christmas where Danny didn't just write the songs, he composed the
scores and sang the leading role, Jack Skellington, plus the voice of Barrel, in the movie. As time
went on now with Danny Elfman being a composer, he grew the reputation of being known as the "bad
boy of movie music." Even though he has, and still is, looked down upon by many of his colleagues
and called the outsider in the tight-knit world of Hollywood film composers, he still continues to
be the most popular self-taught and sought-after film composer and musician in the film industry.
Since he was self-taught, that means that he must've had an influence, and he does. His greatest
musical influences are Carl Stalling, Bernard Hermann, Prokofief, and Stravinsky. Danny Elfman's dark,
richly textured music has also set the mood for other such films as
Darkman and Dick Tracy, as well as Fox's tv show;
The Simpsons, but out of all his music scores, Danny Elfman
says that his favorite movie score that he has done himself is Edward Scissorhands.
On the movie Freeway, Danny Elfman agreed to write the scores
for the director 'cause they where old high school buddies, in return for the movie scores, Danny
received one dollar. Out of all his work Danny Elfman has only won one award, a Grammy in 1989 for
his theme to Batman. Danny Elfman has also done more than
just sing in a band and compose movie scores for more than a dozen movies, he has also been writing
his own scripts since 1990 and one of his films is supposedly in the making.
- Danny Elfman Movie Scores:
Forbidden Zone (1980)Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985)Wisdom (1986)Back to school (1986)Summer School (1987)Face Like A Frog [animated short] (1987?)Scrooged (1988)Midnight Run (1988)Big Top Pee-Wee (1988)Hot to Trot (1988)BetelGeuse (1988)Batman (1989)Darkman (1990)Dick Tracy (1990)Edward Scissorhands (1990)Nightbreed (1990)Article 99 (1991)Pure Luck [theme] (1991)Batman Returns (1992)The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) 
Sommersby (1993)Army of Darkness [theme] (1993)Shrunken Heads [theme] (1994)Black Beauty (1994)Dolores Claiborne (1994)To Die For (1995)Dead Presidents (1995)Freeway (1996)Mission Impossible (1996)Frighteners (1996)Extreme Measures (1996)Mars Attacks! (1996)Men in Black (1997)Flubber (1997)Good Will Hunting (1997)Scream 2 [Cassandra Aria] (1997)Psycho [Adaption] (1998)The Revenant [Theme] (1998)A Simple Plan (1999)A Civil Action (1999)Instinct (1999)My Favorite Martian [Theme] (1999)Sleepy Hollow (1999)Anywhere But Here (1999)Superman Lives (2000)
- Danny Elfman TV Scores:
Amazing Stories: Mummy Daddy (1985)Amazing Stories: Family Dog (1985)Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Jar (198?)Sledgehammer (1986)The Simpsons (1989)Tales From the Crypt (1989)Pee-Wee's Playhouse (19??)Oh No, Not Them [Mtv] (19??)The Flash (1990)BetelGeuse [animated] (199?)Batman [animated] (1992)The Family Dog (1993)Perversions Of Science [HBO] (1997)Dilbert [Theme] (1999)
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