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Danny Elfman <span class="SFPTagline"> From SCIFIPEDIA </span>  Daniel Robert Elfman (b. May 29, 1953) is an American composer, singer, and songwriter born in Ammarillo, Texas. Elfman has been nominated for three Academy Awards and won a Grammy award for his work on the 1989 film Batman and an Emmy Award for the Desperate Housewives theme music. Elfman grew up in Los Angeles where he learned to appreciate movies at his local theatre. He dropped out of high school and visited France with his brother, Richard. They performed street music and also with a musical theater group. He also visited several African countries playing violin and learning about local musical styles. He fell ill with malaria and eventually returned home where he formed a musical troupe, "Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo", with older brother Richard. The group eventually settled on the name Oingo Boingo. The group lent its musical talents to the score of the film Forbidden Zone in which Danny played Satan. Elfman worked several times with director Tim Burton first on Pee-Wee's Big Adventure and later on the films Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Batman, Batman Returns, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the Corpse Bride, Mars Attacks!, Sleepy Hollow, Planet of the Apes and Big Fish . Elfman's other musical contributions to films include songwriting and musical contributions to the soundtracks of Beverly Hills Cop, Weird Science, Ghostbusters II, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Army of Darkness, The Simpsons, Casper: A Spirited Beginning, My Favorite Martian, Donnie Darko, Spider-Man 2, Nacho Libre and Charlotte's Web. He has also been credited as composer on Amazing Stories, Scrooged, Nightbreed, Darkman, Dick Tracy, The Frighteners, Men in Black, Flubber Good Will Hunting, Instinct, The Family Man, Spy Kids, Spider-Man, Red Dragon, Hulk, Meet the Robinsons, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army , Ripley's Believe It or Not! , and The Sixth Element, Modern Vampires, SubZero, and Perversions of Science. External Links
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