Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman (born May 29, 1953, in Amarillo, Texas) is a pop musician, composer and writer of film soundtracks.
Elfman's most recognisable composition is probably the theme music to the animated television series The Simpsons.
Elfman was the frontman for the 1980s rock band Oingo Boingo, whose first major appearance was in his brother Richard Elfman 's film, Forbidden Zone.
He has had a long association with the film director Tim Burton, and has scored many of his films including Beetlejuice, Batman, Batman Returns, Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow, Mars Attacks!, and Big Fish. Burton and Elfman also collaborated intensively on the modern film musical The Nightmare Before Christmas, for which Elfman contributed the singing voice of the main character, as well as writing the lyrics and composing the songs and score. Elfman's music for Burton films contains themes and elements such as a pipe organ and choirs, thus helping to create a fantasy-like gothic atmoshpere in Burton's films. He wrote the theme for the current show Desperate Housewives.
He has also scored many other films including Chicago, Dick Tracy, Freeway, Good Will Hunting, Hulk, Midnight Run, both movies in the Men in Black series, The Family Man, and Sam Raimi's Darkman , Army of Darkness, A Simple Plan, Spider-Man and Spider-Man 3.
On November 29, 2003, Elfman married Bridget Fonda.
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