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Danny Elfman
Known for: SoundDaniel 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. He wrote music for all of the Men in Black and Fifty Shades of Grey franchise films, the songs and score for Henry Selick's animated musical The Nightmare Before Christmas, and the themes for the popular television series Desperate Housewives and The Simpsons. Among his honours are four Oscar nominations, three Emmy Awards, a Grammy, seven Saturn Awards for Best Music, the 2002 Richard Kirk Award, the 2015 Disney Legend Award, the Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award in 2017, and the Society of Composers & Lyricists Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022. Description above from the Wikipedia article Danny Elfman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The Nightmare Before Christmas
as Jack Skellington (singing) / Barrel / Clown with the Tear away Face (voice) 
Corpse Bride
as Bonejangles (voice) 
The Grinch
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Avengers: Age of Ultron
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American Hustle
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Mission: Impossible
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Spider-Man
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Justice League
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Fifty Shades of Grey
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Alice in Wonderland
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
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Send Help
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Good Will Hunting
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Real Steel
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Batman Returns
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Men in Black
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Sleepy Hollow
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Fifty Shades Freed
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Men in Black II
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Dark Shadows
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Edward Scissorhands
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Oz the Great and Powerful
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Midnight Run
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Dracula
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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Hulk
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Meet the Robinsons
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The Wolfman
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Beetlejuice
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Terminator Salvation
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Goosebumps
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Alice Through the Looking Glass
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Spy Kids
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Mr. Peabody & Sherman
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Wanted
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9
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Spider-Man 2
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Planet of the Apes
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Men in Black 3
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Dolittle
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Chicago
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Silver Linings Playbook
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Dead Man's Wire
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May the 12th Be with You
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Frankenweenie
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The Girl on the Train
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Batman
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Charlotte's Web
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Fifty Shades Darker
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Dumbo
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army
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Epic
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Darkman
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Men in Black: International
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The Family Man
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Mars Attacks!
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Dolores Claiborne
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Nightbreed
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White Noise
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The Next Three Days
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Nacho Libre
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The Circle
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Before I Wake
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The Kingdom
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When We Rise
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Big Fish
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Tulip Fever
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The Frighteners
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Flubber
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Milk
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The Woman in the Window
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Promised Land
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Freeway
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Restless
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To Die For
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Big Eyes
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Heartbreakers
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Back to School
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A Simple Plan
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Black Beauty
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Scrooged
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A Civil Action
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Proof of Life
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Notorious
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Article 99
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Dick Tracy
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Taking Woodstock
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Instinct
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Pee-wee's Big Adventure
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Red Dragon
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Extreme Measures
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Hitchcock
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The End of the Tour
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Sommersby
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Summer School
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Anywhere but Here
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Hot to Trot
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Dead Presidents
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Modern Vampires
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Darkman III: Die Darkman Die
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Big Top Pee-wee
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Face Like a Frog
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Score: A Film Music Documentary
as Self 
Deep Sea 3D
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Novocaine
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Amazing Stories
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Forbidden Zone
as Satan 
Standard Operating Procedure
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78/52
as Self 
Aliens, Clowns & Geeks
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