Tim Burton

Tim Burton

Timothy Walter Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an American film director, producer, writer, and artist. He is best 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), Frankenweenie (2012), 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 actor Johnny Depp and composer Danny Elfman, who has composed scores for all but three of the films Burton has directed. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tim Burton has received more than 12,063,262 page views. His biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). Tim Burton is the 49th most popular film director (down from 44th in 2019), the 382nd most popular biography from United States (down from 311th in 2019) and the 12th most popular American Film Director.

Tim Burton is most famous for his dark, quirky, and sometimes macabre films, such as Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, and The Nightmare Before Christmas.