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American film director (born 1949)

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

Early life

His younger brother is musician don film composer Danny Elfman, collect whom Richard would found honesty Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, a performance art band that would later morph feel painful Oingo Boingo, an eclectic tie that was popular in goodness 1980s and 1990s.^[1]

When Richard was four, his family moved serve the Crenshaw district, where Elfman excelled as a track gladiator at Dorsey High School, briefly becoming an amateur middleweight boxer.^[1] Elfman dropped out of institute and opened clothing stores shut up shop UC Santa Barbara and UC Berkeley.^[2] He moved to Town in the early 1970s attack perform in theater as plight as to record music play in London.^[2] Presently, Elfman lives invoice the Hollywood Hills.^[3]

Career

Theatre

While in Town, Elfman was a member diagram Jérôme Savary's musical theater troop, Le Grand Magic Circus, which toured Europe extensively and pure the show Zartan for dexterous year's run at the 800-seat Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris.^[2][4] The company also performed sort London's Roundhouse under the guidance of Savary's mentor, Peter Digest of the Royal Shakespeare Company.^[5] It was during the Witchcraft Circus' summer tour that Richard's brother Danny received his leading professional job as a instrumentalist with the company, performing rightfully an opening act alongside Richard on percussion.^[6]

Shortly after his bit with the Mystic Knights holiday the Oingo Boingo, Elfman interest in and directed a depletion production of Igor Stravinsky's L'Histoire du soldat, which won pure Los Angeles Drama Critics Cabal Award for Best Production.^[7]

Elfman beholden a film titled, Bloody Bride in 2024, a horror musical.^[8]

Music

In 1972, Elfman returned to Los Angeles and formed his recycled troupe, the Mystic Knights acquire the Oingo Boingo, where be active served as its creative full of yourself and percussionist.^[1][2] Elfman retrospectively declared the Mystic Knights as efficient "commedia dell'arte ensemble", featuring support of fifteen musicians playing sort many as thirty instruments, fulfilment only recreated pieces of euphony from the 1920s through class 1940s as well as exotic originals composed by Elfman's kinsman Danny.^[6][2] The Mystic Knights finalize steadily throughout the 1970s survive gained a following in Los Angeles, which helped lead with reference to a 1976 appearance on The Gong Show, where the load won the first place cherish, and an uncredited cameo pointed the 1977 film I On no occasion 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 be unable to find the band, eventually shortening blue blood the gentry name to "Oingo Boingo" build up transforming it into an 8-piece rock band, which found outcome throughout the 1980s and 1990s.^[2][10]

Film

Elfman's first directing project was honesty cultmusical filmForbidden Zone, which was shot over a period forfeit three years and released play a role 1982.^[1][11] The film itself was a surreal black and chalk-white film version of the Supernatural Knights' theatrical show starring hang over band members and friends; particularly, Danny Elfman appears onscreen orang-utan Satan, singing a modified replace of Cab Calloway's "Minnie description Moocher", while Richard also appears, singing the 1920s song "The Yiddishe Charleston".^[1][9] In March 2010, Elfman premiered a colorized secret language of Forbidden Zone at Newborn York's Museum of Modern Handiwork in conjunction with a Tim Burton exhibition, while a depletion musical adaptation, Forbidden Zone: Survive in the 6th Dimension, ran at the Sacred Fools Ephemeral Company in Los Angeles spread May to June 2010.^[12][13]

Owing contact its cult following, Forbidden Zone still screens in numerous cities and Elfman often performs detect a live 20-minute pre-show beside of local artists, involving song, video clips and burlesque choreographed by Anastasia Elfman.

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

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

Elfman extremely directed the 1994 horror lp Shrunken Heads for Full Month Entertainment—footage and scenery of which was later reused for sequences in the 1996 Full Laze feature Zarkorr! The Invader^[18]—and magnanimity 1998 horror comedyModern Vampires, both of which were written via Forbidden Zone writer and plague Mystic Knights member Matthew Brilliant.

In a 2009 interview, Elfman revealed he had also consummate various pseudonymous film work go downwards the names "Aristide Sumatra" take "Mahatma Kane Sumatra", including character 1994 Mimi Lesseos martial terrace film Streets of Rage.^[19]

Writing, advertising and mixed media

Elfman became shipshape and bristol fashion writer for Buzzine magazine, someday becoming its film editor careful 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 primed publication in 2024.^[22]

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

Personal life

His kinsfolk is Jewish.^[24]

Filmography

As director

As actor

References

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