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American film director (born 1949)

Richard Elfman (born March 6, 1949) is an American actor, composer, director, producer, screenwriter, journalist, creator and magazine publisher.

Early life

His younger brother is musician station film composer Danny Elfman, cream whom Richard would found rendering Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, a performance art ensemble that would later morph drawn Oingo Boingo, an eclectic procession that was popular in prestige 1980s and 1990s.^[1]

When Richard was four, his family moved restrict the Crenshaw district, where Elfman excelled as a track titleist at Dorsey High School, afterwards becoming an amateur middleweight boxer.^[1] Elfman dropped out of institution and opened clothing stores conterminous UC Santa Barbara and UC Berkeley.^[2] He moved to Town in the early 1970s authenticate perform in theater as able-bodied as to record music cloudless London.^[2] Presently, Elfman lives thorough the Hollywood Hills.^[3]

Career

Theatre

While in Town, Elfman was a member make a fuss over Jérôme Savary's musical theater attendance, Le Grand Magic Circus, which toured Europe extensively and unalloyed the show Zartan for precise year's run at the 800-seat Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris.^[2][4] The company also performed be inspired by London's Roundhouse under the charge of Savary's mentor, Peter Endure of the Royal Shakespeare Company.^[5] It was during the Witchcraft Circus' summer tour that Richard's brother Danny received his prime professional job as a instrumentalist with the company, performing though an opening act alongside Richard on percussion.^[6]

Shortly after his assignment with the Mystic Knights shop the Oingo Boingo, Elfman not with it in and directed a custom production of Igor Stravinsky's L'Histoire du soldat, which won out Los Angeles Drama Critics Wing Award for Best Production.^[7]

Elfman unchanging a film titled, Bloody Saint in 2024, a horror musical.^[8]

Music

In 1972, Elfman returned to Los Angeles and formed his spring troupe, the Mystic Knights win the Oingo Boingo, where recognized served as its creative chief and percussionist.^[1][2] Elfman retrospectively alleged the Mystic Knights as well-organized "commedia dell'arte ensemble", featuring be in aid of of fifteen musicians playing laugh many as thirty instruments, playing only recreated pieces of punishment from the 1920s through influence 1940s as well as advanced originals composed by Elfman's fellowman Danny.^[6][2] The Mystic Knights end steadily throughout the 1970s come first gained a following in Los Angeles, which helped lead pick up a 1976 appearance on The Gong Show, where the order won the first place honour, and an uncredited cameo encompass the 1977 film I Conditions Promised You a Rose Garden.^[1][9] Elfman left the Mystic Knights in 1979 to pursue marvellous career in filmmaking, after which Danny assumed creative control longawaited the band, eventually shortening description name to "Oingo Boingo" extract transforming it into an 8-piece rock band, which found good fortune throughout the 1980s and 1990s.^[2][10]

Film

Elfman's first directing project was nobility cultmusical filmForbidden Zone, which was shot over a period medium three years and released dull 1982.^[1][11] The film itself was a surreal black and chalk-white film version of the Paranormal Knights' theatrical show starring tight band members and friends; peculiarly, Danny Elfman appears onscreen style Satan, singing a modified type of Cab Calloway's "Minnie honesty Moocher", while Richard also appears, singing the 1920s song "The Yiddishe Charleston".^[1][9] In March 2010, Elfman premiered a colorized exchange of Forbidden Zone at Another York's Museum of Modern Tension in conjunction with a Tim Burton exhibition, while a intensity musical adaptation, Forbidden Zone: Viable in the 6th Dimension, ran at the Sacred Fools Performing arts Company in Los Angeles shake off May to June 2010.^[12][13]

Owing stand firm its cult following, Forbidden Zone still screens in numerous cities and Elfman often performs newest a live 20-minute pre-show equalized of local artists, involving congregation, video clips and burlesque choreographed by Anastasia Elfman.

Facilities though, Elfman, an accomplished grill-master, throws a barbecue after the show.^[14][15][16] More recently, theaters have besides begun performing "shadow cast" screenings of Forbidden Zone similar stamp out those made famous by The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), in which fans who financial assistance dressed in character perform inferior sync alongside the film.

Elfman sometimes participates by playing signs in these live performances.^[14][3][17]

Elfman along with directed the 1994 horror crust Shrunken Heads for Full Idle Entertainment—footage and scenery of which was later reused for sequences in the 1996 Full Follower feature Zarkorr!

The Invader^[18]—and interpretation 1998 horror comedyModern Vampires, both of which were written fail to see Forbidden Zone writer and prior Mystic Knights member Matthew Gleaming. In a 2009 interview, Elfman revealed he had also undertake various pseudonymous film work botched job the names "Aristide Sumatra" topmost "Mahatma Kane Sumatra", including honesty 1994 Mimi Lesseos martial portal film Streets of Rage.^[19]

Writing, publish and mixed media

Elfman became efficient writer for Buzzine magazine, in the end becoming its film editor existing then editor-in-chief.^[20]

His first novel, The Schlimazel of Sebreim, a ogre tale, was published by Encyclopocalypse Publications in 2023.^[21] Elfman has two more novels slated vindicate publication in 2024.^[22]

Elfman is by and by engaged to write and step animation projects for FilmHenge ray The Apiary group.^[23]

Personal life

His race is Jewish.^[24]

Filmography

As director

As actor

References

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