In 1989, he married Lena Gieseke, a German artist. They divorced shortly after the filming of Batman Returns. He was also engaged to Lisa Marie from 1992-2001. He is currently engaged to Helena Bonham Carter (since 2001) and lives in London. They have a son, Billy-Ray Burton, born in October 2003.
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Danny Elfman
AS DIRECTOR
Hansel and Gretel (1982) (TV work)
Vincent (1982)
Frankenweenie (1984)
Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)
Faerie Tale Theatre - Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp (1986) (TV work)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - The Jar (1986) (TV work)
Beetlejuice (1988)
Batman (1989)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Batman Returns (1992)
Ed Wood (1994)
Mars Attacks! (1996)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Planet of the Apes (2001)
Big Fish (2003)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Corpse Bride (2005)
Sweeney Todd (expected in late 2007)
Believe It or Not (2009)AS PRODUCER
Fox and the Hound (1981)
Tron (1982)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Cabin Boy (1994)
Batman Forever (1995)
James and the Giant Peach (1996)
Corpse Bride (2005)OTHER CREDITS
Family Dog (1985) for the Amazing Stories television series; Animation design
Beetlejuice (1989) Television series; Executive producer
Family Dog (1993) Television series; Executive/co-producer
Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick, 1993) Story/Production design/ Producer
Cabin Boy (Adam Resnick, 1994) Producer
Batman Forever (Joel Schumacher, 1995) Producer
James and the Giant Peach (Henry Selick, 1996) Producer
Stainboy (2000) Animated Internet series; Story
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy: and Other Stories
His book The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy: and Other Stories was published in 1996. The collection of verse is about misfit children such as Oyster Boy, Match Girl, Stainboy (who used to have his own flash cartoon series on atomfilms.com), the Girl Who Turned into a Bed, and other such outcasts.Tim Burton, My Art and Films, Harper Perennial, London, 1994Tim Burton, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & other stories, Faber & Faber, London, 1998Ken Hanke, Tim Burton: An Unauthorised Biography of the Filmmaker, Renaissance Books, London, 2000Lewis Jacobs, The Emergence of Film Art, W.W. Norton, London, 1979Helmut Merschmann, Tim Burton, Titan Books, London, 2000Frank Miller, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, DC Comics, New York, 1986Colin Odell and Michelle Le Blanc, Tim Burton, Pocket Essentials, London, 2001Mark Salisbury (ed.), Burton on Burton, Faber & Faber, London, 1995Jim Smith and J. Clive Matthews (eds.), (with foreword by Martin Landau), Tim Burton, Virgin Books, London, 2002Frank Thompson, Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas, London, Disney Press, 2002
Jason And The Argonauts:
One of the first movies I ever remember seeing in the theatre was Jason and the Argonauts on the big screen in Catalina Island in this old amazing theatre. It had this thing where you felt you were inside a weird sea shell. The theatre was amazing, the movie was amazing and I just I'll never forget it. And I still feel that feeling Ray Harryhausen was the king. I knew his name before I knew any actors names. He is an amazing artist. Even as a child you can sense the artistry of somebody and he just got me completely in love with the stop motion medium. There is an artistry and a hand-made quality to his work that just comes off the screen.Godzilla:
I was into all monster movies as a kid, like big Japanese science fiction. I loved monster movies from day one really; I think it kind of freaked out my parents a bit because they said I was watching them from the very, very beginning. I loved Godzilla movies in the sixties and seventies because they had a great sense of design and motionThe Creature From The Black Lagoon:
I also loved The Creature From the Black Lagoon. You can still look at that monster and it's great; its such a perfect design. I haven't changed my taste even to this day. If that movie comes on I'm there watching it until the end. I can't get enough.Hammer Horror:
I loved the story of Sleepy Hollow when I was a kid. I remember the book, but then I remember the Disney version of that, which was really good. That was one of my favorite cartoons, but Hammer Horror films were my favourites as well. The amazing thing about that is that you used to be able to watch TV movies like that with blood all over the place and now it's like they cut them up or they don't show them. It's amazing to me. Yet you will be able to turn on the TV on a Saturday afternoon and see pretty horrible things. I was very grateful that I grew up in the time where you could watch those things on TV.Baron Munchausen:
There was this old version. This Czechoslovakian animator Karel Zeman and he did a version of Barry Munchausen he did but he was great because he used different kinds of animation, stop motion, cuttings out and live action and his films were always very interesting, imaginative looking.