List of frequent Tim Burton collaborators

Tim Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an American film director, film producer, writer and artist who often works with certain actors and crew members in multiple feature film directing projects.

Most notable actors are Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Christopher Lee, who all appeared in eight, seven and six films, respectively.

Film composer Danny Elfman composed the music for all of Burton's feature films with the exception of Ed Wood (1994), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016). He also composed the music for The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), a stop-motion animated film Burton wrote and produced.^[1]

Other actors that Burton has worked with include Danny DeVito, Conchata Ferrell, Albert Finney, Carmen Filpi, Michael Gough, Pat Hingle, Jan Hooks, Rance Howard, Jeffrey Jones, O-Lan Jones, Michael Keaton, Martin Landau, Lisa Marie, Catherine O'Hara, Michelle Pfeiffer, Missi Pyle, Paul Reubens, Alan Rickman, Deep Roy, Winona Ryder, Diane Salinger, Glenn Shadix, Martin Short, Timothy Spall, Sylvia Sidney, Christopher Walken, Frank Welker, Terence Stamp and Paul Whitehouse.

Catherine O'Hara, Paul Reubens, and Glenn Shadix also starred in The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Actor Jason Hervey appeared in the short film Frankenweenie (1984), before appearing in Burton's feature film directing debut Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985).^[2]

Actor Vincent Price worked with Burton on three projects, hosting the television special Hansel and Gretel (1982), narrating the short film Vincent (1982) and appearing in the feature film Edward Scissorhands (1990).^[3]

Key

Key	Title	Year
PWBA	Pee-wee's Big Adventure	1985
BJ	Beetlejuice	1988
BM	Batman	1989
ESH	Edward Scissorhands	1990
BMR	Batman Returns	1992
TNBC	The Nightmare Before Christmas	1993
CB	Cabin Boy	1994
EW	Ed Wood	1994
BMF	Batman Forever	1995
JATGP	James and the Giant Peach	1996
MA	Mars Attacks!	1996
SH	Sleepy Hollow	1999
POTA	Planet of the Apes	2001
BF	Big Fish	2003
CATCF	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	2005
CB	Corpse Bride	2005
ST	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street	2007
AIW	Alice in Wonderland	2010
DS	Dark Shadows	2012
ALVH	Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter	2012
FW	Frankenweenie	2012
BE	Big Eyes	2014
ATTLG	Alice Through the Looking Glass	2016
MPHFPC	Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children	2016

Cast

Individual	PWBA	BJ	BM	ESH	BMR	TNBC	CB	EW	BMF	JATGP	MA	SH	POTA	BF	CATCF	CB	ST	AIW	DS	ALVH	FW	BE	ATTLG	MPHFPC
Simmy Bow[4]	Yes	Yes
Steven Brill[5]				Yes	Yes
Tommy Bush[6]								Yes			Yes
Helena Bonham Carter[7]													Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes				Yes
Johnny Depp[8]				Yes				Yes				Yes			Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes				Yes
Danny DeVito[9]					Yes						Yes			Yes
Adam Drescher[10]					Yes			Yes
Conchata Ferrell[11]				Yes																	Yes
Albert Finney[12]														Yes		Yes
Carmen Filpi[13]	Yes	Yes						Yes
Michael Gough[14]			Yes		Yes				Yes			Yes				Yes		Yes
Eva Green[15]																			Yes					Yes
Garrick Hagon[16]			Yes												Yes
Pat Hingle[17]			Yes		Yes				Yes
Jan Hooks[18]	Yes				Yes
Rance Howard[19]								Yes			Yes
Jeffrey Jones[20]		Yes						Yes
O-Lan Jones[21]				Yes							Yes
Michael Keaton[22]		Yes	Yes		Yes
Stuart Lancaster[23]				Yes	Yes
Martin Landau[24]								Yes				Yes									Yes
Christopher Lee[25]												Yes			Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes
Lisa Marie[26]								Yes			Yes	Yes
Jack Nicholson[27]			Yes								Yes
Catherine O'Hara[28]		Yes				Yes															Yes
Jessica Oyelowo[29]												Yes						Yes
Sarah Jessica Parker[30]								Yes			Yes
Michelle Pfeiffer[31]					Yes														Yes
Philip Philmar[32]																	Yes							Yes
Missi Pyle[33]														Yes	Yes
Paul Reubens[34]	Yes				Yes	Yes
Alan Rickman[35]																	Yes	Yes					Yes
Deep Roy[36]														Yes	Yes	Yes
Winona Ryder[37]		Yes		Yes																	Yes
Diane Salinger[38]	Yes				Yes
Glenn Shadix[39]		Yes				Yes
Martin Short[40]											Yes										Yes
Sylvia Sidney[41]		Yes									Yes
Timothy Spall[42]																	Yes	Yes					Yes
Terence Stamp[43]																						Yes		Yes
Philip Tan[44]			Yes										Yes
Harry Taylor [45]															Yes			Yes	Yes
Christopher Walken[46]					Yes							Yes
Frank Welker[47]											Yes										Yes
Paul Whitehouse[48]																Yes		Yes					Yes
Biff Yeager[49]				Yes	Yes

Crew

Burton also often works with certain crew members in multiple directing projects. This includes screenwriters Warren Skaaren, Caroline Thompson, John August, Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, and Seth Grahame-Smith, producers Denise Di Novi, Allison Abbate, and Richard D. Zanuck, composer Danny Elfman, composer/music editor Mike Higham, costume designer Colleen Atwood, production designers Bo Welch, Alex McDowell, and Rick Heinrichs, cinematographers Stefan Czapsky, Philippe Rousselot, Dariusz Wolski, and Bruno Delbonnel, makeup artists Stan Winston and Rick Baker, and editor/executive producer Chris Lebenzon. Burton has worked with director Henry Selick on The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) and James and the Giant Peach (1996), the former of which Burton co-wrote. He has also worked with fellow producer/director Timur Bekmambetov and producer Jim Lemley on 9 (2009) and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012), for which Bekmambetov also served as director.

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