Tim Burton

Directing · Born 1958-08-25 in Burbank, California, USA

Biography

Timothy Walter Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an American filmmaker and animator. He is known for his gothic fantasy and horror films such as Beetlejuice (1988), Edward Scissorhands (1990), The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Ed Wood (1994), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Corpse Bride (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) and Dark Shadows (2012), as well as the television series Wednesday (2022). Burton also directed the superhero films Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992), the sci-fi film Planet of the Apes (2001), the fantasy-drama Big Fish (2003), the musical adventure film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), and the fantasy films Alice in Wonderland (2010) and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016). Burton has often worked with actors Winona…

Filmography

• The Nightmare Before Christmas as Zero (voice) (uncredited)
• The Muppet Movie as Additional Muppet Performer
• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice as Baby Beetlejuice (voice) (uncredited)
• Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento as self
• Pee-wee's Big Adventure as Thug in Alley (uncredited)
• Men in Black 3 as Alien on TV Monitors (uncredited)
• Luau as The Supreme Being / Mortie
• The Batmobile as Self
• Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan as Self
• Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck as Self

TV

• The Grand Tour as Self
• Wednesday as Parrot
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• The Holiday Movies That Made Us as Self (archive footage)
• The Daily Show as Self
• 100 Years of Warner Bros. as Self
• Evening Urgant as Self
• Beau geste as Self
• Leçon de Cinéma as Self
• The Culture Show as Self