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13 unusual facts about Tim Burton


Al Leong

As a stuntman, Leong was involved with the production of numerous films including The Golden Child, Last Action Hero, Roland Emmerich's Godzilla, Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes, and Daredevil.

Bloody Mary folklore in popular culture

In Beetlejuice, a film by Tim Burton, the title character is summoned to and from the living world by saying his name three times.

Cake in a Cup

The episode's theme was the art and film of director Tim Burton.

Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa

Koenig said he felt there was "a Tim Burton element" to the video, in which the band reinvented their image as goths, "with white faces, spiked hair and black outfits".

Due respiri

In an interview released to Italian magazine Vanity Fair, Galiazzo explained that the music video is "bizarre, fairy, in the style of Tim Burton. It was shot on the seaside and it was very cold. In that story, there's me and my sould".

Figure with Meat

The painting is featured in Tim Burton's 1989 film Batman, in a scene where the Joker and his henchmen destroy several works of art at the Gotham City Museum.

Geraldine James

Her film credits include Gandhi (1982), The Tall Guy (1989), Sherlock Holmes (2009), Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010) and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011).

I Feel Immortal

A version recorded by Kerli under the title "Immortal" is featured on Frankenweenie Unleashed!, an album consisting of tracks from and inspired by the Tim Burton film Frankenweenie.

John Lemmon Films

Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas, p18, Disney Editions, p18.

Lauren McKnight

In the same interview she stated that if she had the choice to work with anyone she wanted to work with, she would probably want to work with people such as Wes Anderson, Darren Aronofsky, Tim Burton and The Coen Brothers.

Nightbreed of Macabria

The album was highly influenced by the works of American film producer Tim Burton.

Planet of the Apes: The Fall

Planet of the Apes: The Fall (2002) is a novel by William T. Quick that serves as a prequel to the Planet of the Apes film "re-imagining" by Tim Burton.

Renato Zero

In the mid-90s Zero dubbed the character of Jack Skellington and sang the songs in the Italian release of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas.


Anton Furst

Anton Furst (6 May 1944 — 24 November 1991) was a production designer who won an Academy Award for designing the noirish nightmare version of Gotham City in Tim Burton's Batman (1989).

Chateau Marmont Hotel

Hunter S. Thompson, Annie Leibovitz, Dorothy Parker, Bruce Weber, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tim Burton, Jay McInerney, Sofia Coppola, among others, all have produced work from within the hotel's walls.

Drew Lightfoot

Lightfoot has animated a variety of works, including many commercials with HeadGear Animation as well as on several TV shows, including The PJs, and feature film Tim Burton's Corpse Bride.

Forrest J Ackerman

In this way, Ackerman provided inspiration to many who would later become successful artists, including Joe Dante, Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, Stephen King, Donald F. Glut, Penn & Teller, Billy Bob Thornton, Gene Simmons (of the band Kiss), Rick Baker, George Lucas, Danny Elfman, Frank Darabont, John Landis and countless other writers, directors, artists and craftsmen.

Gabriel Ríos

In 2006, Ríos and Michael Franti contributed their voices to a project by Flip Kowlier, which involved a cover of the song What's This? from the stop-motion movie The Nightmare Before Christmas by Tim Burton.

Georgie Smith

Before drama school, appeared as supporting artist on Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Mikael Håfström's Derailed and as a dancer in Mike Leigh's Vera Drake.

Gregory Walcott

He also agreeably made a cameo appearance in the 1994 Ed Wood bio-pic starring Johnny Depp, directed by Tim Burton.

Henry Selick

During his time at Disney, he met and worked around the likes of Tim Burton, Rick Heinrichs, Jorgen Klubien, Brad Bird, John Musker, Dan Haskett, Sue and Bill Kroyer, Ed Gombert, and Andy Gaskill.

Jemma Powell

She is known for her roles in films such as François Ozon's Angel and Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland.

Jennifer Todd

She recently produced (with Richard D. Zanuck) the 2010 film Alice in Wonderland, starring Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska and Johnny Depp and directed by Tim Burton.

La Crescenta-Montrose, California

Bela Lugosi attempted to overcome his morphine addiction at the Kimball, as represented in the Tim Burton film "Ed Wood." Actress Frances Farmer, misdiagnosed as a "paranoid schizophrenic," received insulin shock therapy at Kimball.

Max Schreck

-- spelt without the "c" --> for the Tim Burton film Batman Returns and compared him to the character Max Schreck played in Nosferatu.

Stephen Ashfield

In 2007 he appeared in Sweeney Todd directed by Tim Burton for Warner Bros..

Vincent Diderot

Influenced by the painters Jackson Pollock, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francis Bacon, as well as by the film directors David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, his first short films, Louise and Sirène, are experimental.