Tim Burton Filmography

Born:: August 25, 1958 in Burbank, CA
Occupation:: Director, Executive Producer, Producer
Biography:: It should come as no shock to the fans of director Tim Burton that he spent his formative years glued to the tube, watching old cartoons and horror flicks. Such early influences no doubt helped to form the deliciously ghoulish and artfully warped sensibility of a director who was to become known...Read More

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Alice in Wonderland

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Tim Burton takes a stab at Lewis Carroll's timeless tale of a young girl lost within a fantasyland with this 3-D production of Alice in Wonderland for Walt Disney Studios. The Lion King's Linda Woolverton provides the script, with Hollywood heavyweights Richard Zanuck and Joe Roth heading up the Read More

3/19/10
Frankenweenie

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Tim Burton's 1984 short film Frankenweenie is resurrected for the big screen with this stop-motion 3-D remake, which will once again center on a boy who reanimates his dead terrier and the suburban fallout that occurs because of it. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/09
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Crew: Director

Actors: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jamie Campbell Bower

Synopsis: Stephen Sondheim's award-winning musical thriller comes to the big screen in this adaptation directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Sacha Baron Cohen, Timothy Spall, and Alan Rickman. Embittered at having been wrongly imprisoned and determined to seek vengeance Read More

12/21/07
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Crew: Producer

Actors: Elijah Wood, Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Martin Landau, Christopher Plummer, John C. Reilly

2007
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Tracey Ullman

Synopsis: Tim Burton returns to the dark but fanciful animated style of The Nightmare Before Christmas with this stop-motion black comedy. Victor (voice of Johnny Depp) lives in a small European village in the 19th century, where he is pledged to marry Victoria (voice of Emily Watson), a partnership Read More

9/16/05
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Crew: Director

Actors: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly, Helena Bonham Carter, Noah Taylor

Synopsis: Director Tim Burton brings his unique vision and sensibility to Roald Dahl's classic children's story in this lavish screen interpretation. Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp) is the secretive and wildly imaginative man behind the world's most celebrated candy company, and while the Wonka factory is Read More

7/15/05
Big Fish

Crew: Director

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Helena Bonham Carter, Alison Lohman

Synopsis: Tim Burton directs the fantasy drama Big Fish, based on the book Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions by Southern writer/illustrator Daniel Wallace. Billy Crudup plays William Bloom, a young man who never really knew his dying father, Edward (Albert Finney) outside of the tall tales he told Read More

12/10/03
Planet of the Apes

Crew: Director

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Clarke Duncan, Kris Kristofferson, Estella Warren, Paul Giamatti, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Synopsis: This big budget "re-imagining" of the 1968 original departs somewhat from both that classic science fiction film and the source novel by author Pierre Boulle. Mark Wahlberg stars as Leo Davidson, an astronaut of the early 21st century whose unauthorized mission to rescue a chimp companion from a Read More

7/27/01
Sleepy Hollow

Crew: Director

Actors: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon, Casper Van Dien

Synopsis: Washington Irving's tale of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman gets a few new twists in a screen adaptation directed by Tim Burton. In this version, Ichabod (Johnny Depp) is a New York City detective whose unorthodox techniques and penchant for gadgets make him unpopular with is colleagues. Read More

11/19/99
James and the Giant Peach

Crew: Producer

Actors: Joanna Lumley, Simon Callow, Richard Dreyfuss, Jane Leeves, Pete Postlethwaite, Paul Terry, Miriam Margolyes, Susan Sarandon

Synopsis: A young boy's discovery of a gigantic peach triggers an eventful journey across the sea in this strikingly designed and surprisingly twisted animated adventure. A live-action framing device establishes the dark yet fanciful mood one might expect from an adaptation of a Roald Dahl story, as young Read More

1996
Mars Attacks!

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Jim Brown

Synopsis: This quirky science fiction comedy is a characteristic feature by iconoclastic director Tim Burton, known to moviegoers for Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. The storyline affectionately harkens back to the deadpan sincerity of such '50s and '60s Read More

1996
Batman Forever

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman, Chris O'Donnell

Synopsis: Director Joel Schumacher inherited the Batman franchise from Tim Burton and began steering it in the campier direction of the Sixties television show with this third installment. First-time Batman/Bruce Wayne (Val Kilmer), in his only outing as the Caped Crusader, is effectively brooding as he Read More

6/16/95
Ed Wood

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette, Bill Murray, Jeffrey Jones

Synopsis: Hollywood visionary Tim Burton pays homage to another Hollywood visionary, albeit a less successful one, in this unusual fictionalized biography. The film follows Wood (Johnny Depp) in his quest for film greatness as he writes and directs turkey after turkey, cross-dresses, and surrounds himself Read More

1994
Cabin Boy

Crew: Producer

Actors: Chris Elliott, Ritch Brinkley, James Gammon, Brian Doyle-Murray, Brion James

Synopsis: Former NBC intern and Get a Life creator Chris Elliott stars as the title character, a recent graduate of the exclusive Fancy Lad Academy who unwittingly boards the wrong sea vessel and ends up a whipping post for its gruff, foul-mouthed crew after his predecessor (Andy Richter of The Late Show) Read More

1994
The Nightmare Before Christmas

Crew: Producer, Production Designer

Actors: Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey, Glenn Shadix

Synopsis: This stop-motion animated fable was a big hit when it was released -- not only at the box office, but critically. It was praised for its stunning originality and for the excellence of its execution. In addition, it was praised for being a completely absorbing fable that both grownups and children Read More

10/29/93
Singles

Actors: Bridget Fonda, Campbell Scott, Kyra Sedgwick, Sheila Kelley, Jim True

Synopsis: Set amidst the burgeoning Seattle alternative music scene of the early '90s, Singles follows a group of twentysomethings as they try to find love and try to come to terms with their passage into adulthood. Arranged as an episodic comedy, the film follows a group of friends who live in the same Read More

9/18/92
Batman Returns

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Michael Gough

Synopsis: In this first sequel to 1989's Batman, the Caped Crusader (Michael Keaton) is up against the Penguin (Danny DeVito), the hideously deformed scion of a wealthy Gotham City family. The Penguin plots with evil businessman Max Schreck (Christopher Walken) to become mayor and then turn Gotham into a Read More

6/19/92
Beetlejuice: Season 03

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Stephen Ouimette, Alyson Court, Roger Dunn, Elizabeth Hanna

Synopsis: The third season of the animated crazy-quilt Beetlejuice (still seen this year on ABC, though a Fox network version was being telecast at the same time!) offers 13 new episodes revolving around Beetlejuice, aka "BJ", the gross and grotesquely funny practical joker who calls the Neitherworld his Read More

1991
Beetlejuice: Season 04

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Stephen Ouimette, Alyson Court, Roger Dunn, Elizabeth Hanna

Synopsis: Even as Season Three of the animated series Beetlejuice was spooling every Saturday morning on ABC, a separate fourth season, consisting of 65 episodes, was merrily humming away from Monday through Friday on the Fox network. Though the principal characters are still the grotesquely hilarious and Read More

1991
Edward Scissorhands

Crew: Co-producer, Director, Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall, Alan Arkin, Vincent Price, Kathy Baker

Synopsis: Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands opens as an eccentric inventor (Vincent Price) lovingly assembles a synthetic youth named Edward (Johnny Depp). Edward has all the essential ingredients for today's standard body, with the exception of a pair of hands. For what is initially thought to be a Read More

12/7/90
Beetlejuice: Season 02

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Stephen Ouimette, Alyson Court, Roger Dunn, Elizabeth Hanna

Synopsis: Season two of the ABC version of the zoned-out cartoon series Beetlejuice features 13 new adventures with the Neitherworld's favorite ghoulish prankster Beetlejuice ("B.J") and his winsome mortal friend Lydia Deetz. This season, it's Beetlejuice vs. Lydia on Scary Fools Day; the duo races against Read More

1990
Batman

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl, Pat Hingle

Synopsis: Behind the black cowl, Gotham City superhero Batman is really millionaire philanthropist Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton), who turned to crimefighting after his parents were brutally murdered before his eyes. The only person to share Wayne's secret is faithful butler Alfred (Michael Gough). The Read More

6/23/89
Beetlejuice: Season 01

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Stephen Ouimette, Alyson Court, Roger Dunn, Elizabeth Hanna

Synopsis: The first season of the grotesquely hilarious animated series Beetlejuice originally aired weekly on ABC, and consists of 19 half-hour episodes, in which the hideously ugly, outrageously gross and stone-cold-dead con artist/prankster Beetlejuice, aka "BJ", made periodic visits to the surrealistic Read More

1989
Beetlejuice

Crew: Director

Actors: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton, Catherine O'Hara, Jeffrey Jones

Synopsis: Thanks to the carelessness of a cute little dog, newlyweds Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin are killed in a freak auto accident. Upon arriving in the outer offices of Heaven, the couple finds that, thanks to a century's worth of bureaucratic red tape, they're on a long celestial waiting list. Before Read More

3/30/88
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure

Crew: Director

Actors: Paul Reubens, Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton, Diane Salinger, Judd Omen

Synopsis: Co-written by Paul Reubens and Phil Hartman, Pee Wee's Big Adventure marks the debut of director Tim Burton, who stamps the entire film with his quirky trademark style. The premise: Pee Wee (Reubens), an overgrown pre-pubescent boy sporting a molded Princeton cut, blush, lipstick, and a shrunken Read More

1985
Frankenweenie

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this black-and-white short, novice director Tim Burton tells the story of Frankenstein's monster in suburbia as a children's fable about tolerance. Loving parents Ben (Daniel Stern) and Susan Frankenstein (Shelley Duvall) encourage their son Victor's (Barret Oliver) home movies, starring their Read More

1984
Faerie Tale Theatre: Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Robert Carradine portrays Aladdin, the foolish boy who finds himself at odds with an evil magician (Leonard Nimoy), in love with a princess (Valerie Bertinelli), and in luck with the discovery of a mysterious lamp. James Earl Jones portrays the daunting genie in the lamp. This installment of Read More

1984
Vincent

Crew: Director, Production Designer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: A seven-year-old boy from a typical middle-class suburb dreams of growing up to become just like his idol Vincent Price in this playfully macabre, black-and-white short from director Tim Burton. Vincent Malloy isn't like the other children of the neighborhood. While his classmates are frolicking Read More

1982
The Fox and the Hound

Crew: Animator

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Kurt Russell, Pearl Bailey, Jack Albertson, Sandy Duncan

Synopsis: The Disney animated feature The Fox and the Hound tells the story of a friendship between traditional enemies. Tod is a fox whose parents have died. His best friend is a hunting dog named Copper. As Copper grows up, he learns that it is his job to hunt foxes. Tod's caretaker Widow Tweed takes Tod Read More

1981