When was danny elfman born

Elfman has been highly decorated for his works. He was also nominated for the Grammy Award a total of eleven times, for which he won once. Home About List Blog Contact. Danny Elfman. On November 29, , Elfman married film actress Bridget Fonda.

In he scored A Simple Plan — his only score for one of her films to date although he did compose a cue for the film Army of Darkness, in which Fonda has a cameo. Artist descriptions on Last. Feel free to contribute! All user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. Don't want to see ads? Upgrade Now. View all similar artists. View all trending tracks.

Loading player…. Scrobble from Spotify? Connect to Spotify Dismiss. Search Search. Biography Born 29 May age 68 Born In Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman born May 29, is an American composer , best known as the lead singer and songwriter for the rock band Oingo Boingo , from to and later for scoring music for television and film and creating The Simpsons main title theme as well as the Batman movie theme.

He instead, provided the score for Charlotte's Web , which, as it happens, is about a spider who uses her talents to do good. Learned how to breathe fire as a street performer in Paris after he graduated from high school.

Sang all the vocals for the five songs in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory He recorded singing it in different ways and played with the audio to make it sound like various high- and low-pitched vocals. His father is Milton Elfman , who made an uncredited appearance in the film, Forbidden Zone But neither of them made the list. Uncle of Jenna Elfman by marriage.

He was so impressed by Heavenly Creatures that he offered to do the musical score for the next movie of whoever directed it. That director turned out to be Peter Jackson , and his next movie, The Frighteners , was indeed scored by Elfman. Kevin Smith wanted him to score Dogma , but he was unavailable. First cousin of actor and producer Mark Damon. Danny's father and Mark's mother were siblings. Father was a school teacher who retired five years early due to hearing loss.

I get drawn to things that don't make any sense, and I learned early on not to resist that. I've known Sam [Raimi] for almost 15 years. Spider-Man 2 was my fifth movie with him and all I can say is that the person who was there at the end of Spider-Man 2 was not Sam. I don't know who it was, but it wasn't Sam. It was as close to living out Invasion of the Body Snatchers as I've ever experienced.

To see such a profound negative change in a human being was almost enough to make me feel like I didn't want to make films anymore. It was really disheartening and sad to see the way it ended up.

It all depends on the directors. Working closely with a director is the main job of a film composer. Interpreting what he perceives as a color, an emotion or mood is very abstract. A director tells you something he wants and then you have to run back to your music and respond with, "I think he meant something like this.

I don't think there's a trademark Danny Elfman element that has been consistent in my work. I don't hear many similarities in what I do and I don't think it's necessary that I have a particular style.

Having a particular style is not bad, but I prefer to push myself in the direction of being a composer who you never know what he's doing next.