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Movies
Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Nightmare Before Christmas, Cabin Boy, Ed Wood, Batman Forever, James and the Giant Peach, Mars Attacks, Sleepy Hollow -
DOB
August 25th 1958 was the birth date of Timothy Walter "Tim" Burton -
Early Life
As a preteen, Burton would make short films in his backyard -
Early Life
He studied at Burbank High School and was not a very good student. Though he found pleasure in painting, animation and watching films. -
Early Life
After graduating high school, Burton attended California Institute of the Arts where he studied Character Animation. Later graduating with Henry Selick, who he would work together with on the Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach. -
Early Life
As a student in CalArts, Burton made the shorts Stalk of the Celery Monster and King and Octopus. -
Early Career
Burton graduated from CalArts in Santa Clarita, California in 1979. The success of his short film Stalk of the Celery Monster attracted the attention of Walt Disney Productions' animation studio, who offered young Burton an animator's apprenticeship at their studio. -
Early Career
He worked as an animator, storyboard artist and concept artist on films such as The Fox and the Hound, The Black Cauldron and Tron. However, Burton's personal style clashed with Disney's standards, and he longed to work on solo projects -
Early Life
While at Disney in 1982, Burton made his first short, Vincent, a six-minute black-and-white stop motion film based on a poem written by the filmmaker, and depicting a young boy who fantasizes that he is his hero Vincent Price, with Price himself providing narration. The film was produced by Rick Heinrichs, whom Burton had befriended while working in the concept art department at Disney. The film was shown at the Chicago Film Festival and released, alongside the teen drama Tex, for two weeks in o -
Early Career
Burton's next live-action short, Frankenweenie, was released in 1984. It tells the story of a young boy who tries to revive his dog after it is run over by a car. Filmed in black-and-white, it stars Barret Oliver, Shelley Duvall (with whom he would work again in 1986, directing an episode of her Faerie Tale Theatre) and Daniel Stern. After Frankenweenie was completed, Disney fired Burton, under the pretext of him spending the company's resources on doing a film that would be too dark and scary -
Movies
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman -
Movies
Planet of the Apes, Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride, "Bones", Sweeny Todd: Demon Barber of Fleet Street. -
Movies
Alice in Wonderland, Dark Shadows, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Frankenweenie, "Here With Me". -
Future Project
It has been reported that Burton will direct a 3D stop motion animation adaptation of The Addams Family, which was confirmed by Christopher Meledandri. On July 19, 2010, he was announced as the director of the upcoming film adaptation of Monsterpocalypse. -
Personal Life
Burton and Bonham Carter have two children: a son, Billy Raymond, named after his and Bonham Carter's fathers, born in 2003; and a daughter, Nell, born in 2007. Close friend Johnny Depp is a godfather of both of Burton's children. In Depp's introduction to Burton on Burton, he writes, "What more can I say about him? He is a brother, a friend, my godson's father. He is a unique and brave soul, someone that I would go to the ends of the earth for..." -
Personal Life
Burton was married to Lena Gieseke, a German-born artist, for two years, whom he left to live with model and actress Lisa Marie; she acted in the films he made during their relationship from 1992 to 2001, most notably in Ed Wood and Mars Attacks!. After leaving her, Burton developed a romantic relationship with English actress Helena Bonham Carter, whom he met while filming Planet of the Apes. Lisa Marie responded in 2005 by holding an auction of personal belongings that Burton had left behind.