Frequent Collaborators of Tim Burton
by slash388 | created - 26 Sep 2017 | updated - 3 months ago | Public
1. Johnny Depp
Actor | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II was born on June 9, 1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky, to Betty Sue Palmer (née Wells), a waitress, and John Christopher Depp, a civil engineer. He was raised in Florida. He dropped out of school when he was 15, and fronted a series of music-garage bands, including one ...
Edward Scissorhands (Edward Scissorhands), Ed Wood (Ed Wood), Ichabod Crane (Sleepy Hollow), Willy Wonka (Charlie & the Chocolate Factory), Victor Van Dort (Corpse Bride), Sweeney Todd (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street), The Mad Hatter (Alice in Wonderland), Barnabas Collins (Dark Shadows)
2. Helena Bonham Carter
Actress | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Helena Bonham Carter is an actress of great versatility, one of the UK's finest and most successful.
Bonham Carter was born May 26, 1966 in Golders Green, London, England, the youngest of three children of Elena (née Propper de Callejón), a psychotherapist, and Raymond Bonham Carter, a merchant ...
Ari (Planet of the Apes), Jennifer Hill/The Witch (Big Fish), Emily (Corpse Bride), Mrs. Bucket (Charlie & the Chocolate Factory), Mrs. Lovett (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street), The Red Queen (Alice in Wonderland), Dr. Julia Hoffman (Dark Shadows)
3. Paul Reubens
Actor | Pee-wee's Playhouse
Paul Reubens was born Paul Rubenfeld on August 27, 1952 in Peekskill, New York, to Judy (Rosen), a teacher, and Milton Rubenfeld, a car salesman who had flown for the air forces of the U.S., U.K., and Israel, becoming one of the latter country's pioneering pilots. Paul grew up in Sarasota, Florida,...
Pee-wee Herman (Pee-wee's Big Adventure), Penguin's father (Batman Returns)
4. Michael Keaton
Actor | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Quirky, inventive and handsome American actor Michael Keaton first achieved major fame with his door-busting performance as fast-talking ideas man Bill Blazejowski, alongside a nerdish morgue attendant (Henry Winkler), in Night Shift (1982). He played further comedic roles in Mr. Mom (1983), Johnny...
Beetlejuice (Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice), Bruce Wayne/Batman (Batman, Batman Returns), V.A. Vandevere (Dumbo)
5. Winona Ryder
Actress | Little Women
Winona Ryder was born Winona Laura Horowitz in Olmsted County, Minnesota, and was named after a nearby town, Winona, Minnesota. She is the daughter of Cynthia (Istas), an author and video producer, and Michael Horowitz, a publisher and bookseller. Her father's family is Ukrainian Jewish and ...
Lydia Deetz (Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice), Kim Boggs (Edward Scissorhands), Elsa Van Helsing (Frankenweenie)
6. Catherine O'Hara
Actress | A Mighty Wind
Canadian actress, writer, and comedian, Catherine O'Hara gained recognition as one of the original cast members on the Canadian television sketch comedy show SCTV (1976). On the series, she impersonated the likes of Lucille Ball, Tammy Faye Bakker, Gilda Radner, Katharine Hepburn, and Brooke Shields...
Delia Deetz (Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice), Susan Frankenstein/gym teacher (Frankenweenie)
7. Jack Nicholson
Actor | Chinatown
Jack Nicholson, an American actor, producer, director and screenwriter, is a three-time Academy Award winner and twelve-time nominee. Nicholson is also notable for being one of two actors - the other being Michael Caine - who have received an Oscar nomination in every decade from the '60s through ...
Jack Napier/The Joker (Batman), President James Dale (Mars Attacks)
8. Danny DeVito
Actor | Matilda
Danny DeVito has amassed a formidable and versatile body of work as an actor, producer and director that spans the stage, television and film.
Daniel Michael DeVito Jr. was born on November 17, 1944, in Neptune, New Jersey, to Italian-American parents. His mother, Julia (Moccello), was a homemaker. ...
Oswald Cobblepot/The Penguin (Batman Returns), Rude gambler (Mars Attacks), Amos Calloway (Big Fish), Max Medici (Dumbo)
9. Sarah Jessica Parker
Actress | Sex and the City
Sarah Jessica Parker was born March 25, 1965, in Nelsonville, Ohio, to Barbra Forste (née Keck), a teacher who ran a nursery school, and Stephen Parker, a journalist. Her parents divorced, and her mother later remarried to Paul Forste and had four more children, bringing the total to eight. Sarah ...
Dolores Fuller (Ed Wood), Nathalie Lake (Mars Attacks)
10. Christopher Walken
Actor | The Deer Hunter
Lead and supporting actor of the American stage and films, with sandy colored hair, and pale complexion. He won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Deer Hunter (1978), and has been seen in mostly character roles, often portraying psychologically unstable individuals, though...
Max Shreck (Batman Returns), The Headless Horseman (Sleepy Hollow)
11. Christopher Lee
Actor | Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was perhaps the only actor of his generation to have starred in so many films and cult saga. Although most notable for personifying bloodsucking vampire, Dracula, on screen, he portrayed other varied characters on screen, most of which were villains, whether it ...
The Burgomaster (Sleepy Hollow), Pastor Galswells (Corpse Bride), Dr. Wilbur Wonka (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), The Jabberwocky (Alice in Wonderland), Silas Clarney (Dark Shadows)
12. Albert Finney
Actor | Murder on the Orient Express
The son of a Lancashire bookmaker, Albert Finney came to motion pictures via the theatre. In 1956, he won a scholarship to RADA where his fellow alumni included Peter O'Toole and Alan Bates. He joined the Birmingham Repertory where he excelled in plays by William Shakespeare. A member of the Royal ...
Edward Bloom (Big Fish), Finis Everglot (Corpse Bride)
13. Jan Hooks
Actress | Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Jan Hooks is better remembered for her five-year run on Saturday Night Live (1975) (1986-91) on the series she impersonated actress ranging from Bette Davis, to Ann-Margret, to Sally Kellerman, to Jodie Foster. After she left the show, she was proposed by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason to replace Jean ...
Tina (Pee-wee's Big Adventure), Jen (Batman Returns)
14. Jeffrey Jones
Actor | Amadeus
Jeffrey Duncan Jones was born in Buffalo, New York. He is a very tall, fair-haired character actor who is recognized all over for his excellent work. He is a veteran stage actor having such plays as "The Elephant Man" and Neil Simon's "London Suite" under his belt. His first film role was in The ...
Charles Deetz (Beetlejuice), The Amazing Criswell (Ed Wood), Reverend Steenwyck (Sleepy Hollow)
15. Pat Hingle
Actor | The Quick and the Dead
Pat Hingle (real name: Martin Patterson Hingle) was born in Miami, Florida, the son of a building contractor. His parents divorced when Hingle was still in his infancy (he never knew his father) and his mother supported the family by teaching school in Denver. She then began to travel (with her son...
Commissioner James Gordon (Batman, Batman Returns)
16. Michael Gough
Actor | Batman Forever
Tony Award-winning English actor Michael Gough, best known for playing the butler Alfred Pennyworth in the first four Batman (1989, 1992, 1995 & 1997) movies and for playing the arch-criminal Dr. Clement Armstrong in The Avengers (1961) episode "The Cybernauts", was an accomplished performer on ...
Alfred Pennyworth (Batman, Batman Returns), Notary Hardenbrook (Sleepy Hollow), Elder Gutknecht (Corpse Bride), The Dodo Bird (Alice in Wonderland)
17. Martin Landau
Actor | Ed Wood
Oscar-winning character actor Martin Landau was born on June 20, 1928, in Brooklyn, New York. At age 17, he was hired by the New York Daily News to work in the promotions department before he became a staff cartoonist and illustrator. In his five years on the paper, he served as the illustrator for ...
Bela Lugosi (Ed Wood), Peter Van Garrett (Sleepy Hollow), Mr. Rzykruski (Frankenweenie)
18. Timothy Spall
Actor | Mr. Turner
Timothy Leonard Spall is an award-winning classical character actor who was born on February 27, 1957, and raised in London. The son of blue-collar parents, Joseph L. Spall, a postal worker, and Sylvia R. (Leonard), a hairdresser, his interest in acting happened early and Spall auditioned and ...
Beadle Bamford (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street), Baynard the Bloodhound (Alice in Wonderland)
19. Eva Green
Actress | Casino Royale
French actress and model Eva Gaëlle Green was born on July 6, 1980, in Paris, France. Her father, Walter Green, is a dentist who appeared in the 1966 film Au hasard Balthazar (1966). Her mother, Marlène Jobert, is an actress turned children's book writer. Eva's mother was born in Algeria, of French...
Angelique Bouchard (Dark Shadows), Ms. Alma LeFay Peregrine (Ms. Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children), Colette Marchant (Dumbo)
20. Michelle Pfeiffer
Actress | The Fabulous Baker Boys
Michelle Pfeiffer was born in Santa Ana, California to Dick and Donna Pfeiffer. She has an older brother and two younger sisters - Dedee Pfeiffer, and Lori Pfeiffer, who both dabbled in acting and modeling but decided against making it their lives' work. She graduated from Fountain Valley High ...
Selina Kyle/Catwoman (Batman Returns), Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Dark Shadows)
21. Martin Short
Actor | Innerspace
Martin Hayter Short OC is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, singer, and writer. He has received various awards including two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award. In 2019 Short became an Officer of the Order of Canada, and has received Medals from Queen Elizabeth II, including in 2002 the ...
Press Secretary Jeff Ross (Mars Attacks), Edward Frankenstein/Nassor (Frankenweenie)
22. Terence Stamp
Actor | The Limey
Terence was born in London and spent his early years watching American films and dreamed of being like the stars on the screen, He was awarded a scholarship for the Webber Douglas School of Dramatic Art. In his second year, during an audition, Peter Ustinov signed him for the title role in Billy ...
John Canaday (Big Eyes), Abraham 'Abe' Portman (Ms. Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children)
23. Missi Pyle
Actress | Captain Fantastic
Missi Pyle was born Andrea Kay Pyle on November 16, 1972 in Houston, Texas, and was raised in Memphis, Tennessee. The daughter of Linda and Frank Pyle, she has four older siblings, sisters Debbie and Julie, and brothers Sam and Paul. Pyle attended the North Carolina School of the Arts and graduated...
Mildred (Big Fish), Mrs. Beauregarde (Charlie & the Chocolate Factory)
24. Glenn Shadix
Actor | Beetlejuice
William G. Scott was born in 1952 in Bessemer, Alabama. He attended Birmingham-Southern College for two years. He lived in New York City prior to moving to Hollywood in the late 1970s.
Changing his name to Glenn Shadix, he made his film debut in the poorly received The Postman Always Rings Twice (...
Otho (Beetlejuice), Senator Nado (Planet of the Apes)
25. Alan Arkin
Actor | Argo
Alan Arkin was an Academy Award-winning American actor who was also an acclaimed director, producer, author, singer and composer.
He was born Alan Wolf Arkin on March 26, 1934, in Brooklyn, New York. His family were Jewish emigrants from Russia and Germany. In 1946, the Arkins moved from Brooklyn to...
Bill Boggs (Edward Scissorhands), J. Griffin Remington (Dumbo)
26. Alan Rickman
Actor | Die Hard
Alan Rickman was born on a council estate in Acton, West London, to Margaret Doreen Rose (Bartlett), of English and Welsh descent, and Bernard Rickman, of Irish descent, who worked at a factory. Alan Rickman had an older brother (David), a younger brother (Michael), and a younger sister (Sheila). ...
Judge Turpin (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street), Absolem the Caterpillar (Alice in Wonderland)
27. Diane Salinger
Actress | Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Diane Salinger's striking features and offbeat nature make her a sought after character actress to several inventive filmmakers, particularly Tim Burton who directed Salinger at the start of her career in Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985). She played Simone, a roadside diner waitress determined to ...
Simone (Pee-wee's Big Adventure), Penguin's mother (Batman Returns)
28. Garrick Hagon
Actor | Star Wars
Garrick Hagon was born in London, England, UK. Garrick is an actor and director, known for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), Mission: Impossible (1996) and The Message (1976). Garrick has been married to Liza Ross since 1965. They have two children.
Tourist dad (Batman), Denver reporter (Charlie & the Chocolate Factory)
29. Lisa Marie
Actress | We Are Still Here
By age 16, Lisa Marie was a model and an actress. She has modeled for photographers such as Robert Mapplethorpe and Bruce Weber and has been featured for Calvin Klein. She has worked with many different film-makers; Woody Allen, Matthew Modine, Tim Burton, and Rob Zombie, and has starred in feature...
Vampira (Ed Wood), Martian girl (Mars Attacks), Lady Crane (Sleepy Hollow), Nova (Planet of the Apes)
30. Deep Roy
Actor | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Deep Roy was born on January 26, 1949 in Nairobi, Kenya. He is an actor and producer, known for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and The NeverEnding Story (1984).
Gorilla kid/Thade's niece (Planet of the Apes), Mr. Soggybottom (Big Fish), Oompa Loompas (Charlie & the Chocolate Factory), General Bonesapart/Town crier (Corpse Bride)
31. O-Lan Jones
Actress | Edward Scissorhands
O-Lan Jones is an award winning composer, sound designer, writer, and actress who has been consistently involved in experimental theater, music, and opera since the age of 16. The press has referred to her as an "uncategorizable legend." She is the Artistic Director for Overtone Industries, ...
Esmerelda (Edward Scissorhands), Sue-Ann Norris (Mars Attacks), Shelly (Ms. Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children)
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