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Danny Elfman

1953 - Today

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Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American film composer, singer, songwriter, and musician. He came to prominence as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter for the new wave band Oingo Boingo in the early 1980s. Since scoring his first studio film in 1985, Elfman has garnered international recognition for composing over 100 feature film scores, as well as compositions for television, stage productions, and the concert hall. Elfman has frequently worked with directors Tim Burton, Sam Raimi, and Gus Van Sant, contributing music to nearly 20 Burton projects, including Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Mars Attacks!, Sleepy Hollow, Big Fish and Alice in Wonderland, as well as scoring Raimi's Darkman, A Simple Plan, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Oz the Great and Powerful, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Van Sant's Academy Award-winning films Good Will Hunting and Milk. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Danny Elfman is the 487th most popular composer (up from 517th in 2019), the 2,619th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,400th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Danny Elfman ranks 487 out of 1,451. Before him are Florent Schmitt, Fikret Amirov, Claudio Merulo, Théodore Dubois, Johann Crüger, and André Messager. After him are Giuseppe Sarti, Rikard Nordraak, Thomas Arne, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Princess Cecilia of Sweden, and Riz Ortolani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Danny Elfman ranks 103. Before him are Joan Lin, Hussein Arnous, Bobby Joe Long, James Remar, Sergei Ivanov, and Kate Capshaw. After him are Manfred Kaltz, Valery Gergiev, Reinhard Marx, Nan Goldin, Madhav Kumar Nepal, and Frances Conroy.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Danny Elfman ranks 2,619 out of 20,380. Before him are Upton Sinclair (1878), Jason Bateman (1969), Carl Van Vechten (1880), Donna Murphy (1959), Frank Borman (1928), and William Carlos Williams (1883). After him are Cardi B (1992), John Harvey Kellogg (1852), Edward Kasner (1878), John de Lancie (1948), Joseph Franklin Rutherford (1869), and Henry Lee Lucas (1936).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Danny Elfman ranks 23. Before him are Aaron Copland (1900), Bernard Herrmann (1911), Cole Porter (1891), Richard Rodgers (1902), Elmer Bernstein (1922), and Paul Bowles (1910). After him are James Newton Howard (1951), George Antheil (1900), Bill Conti (1942), Leroy Anderson (1908), Terry Riley (1935), and Michael Kamen (1948).

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