List of frequent Tim Burton collaborators
Tim Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an American filmmaker, animator, and artist, who often works with certain actors and crew members in multiple feature film directing projects. The actors who collaborated with Burton the most frequently are Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Christopher Lee, and Michael Gough, who all appeared in eight, seven, six, and five films, respectively. Film composer Danny Elfman composed the music for all of Burton's feature films with the exception of "Ed Wood" (1994), "" (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 co-wrote and produced. Other actors that Burton has worked with include Alan Arkin, Danny DeVito, Conchata Ferrell, Albert Finney, Carmen Filpi, Michael Gough, Eva Green, Pat Hingle, Jan Hooks, Rance Howard, Jeffrey Jones, O-Lan Jones, Michael Keaton, Martin Landau, Lisa Marie, Jack Nicholson, Catherine O'Hara, Michelle Pfeiffer, Missi Pyle, Paul Reubens, Alan Rickman, Deep Roy, Winona Ryder, Diane Salinger, Glenn Shadix, Martin Short, Timothy Spall, Terence Stamp, Sylvia Sidney, Christopher Walken, Frank Welker, and Paul Whitehouse. 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). Actor Vincent Price worked with Burton on three projects, hosting the television film "Hansel and Gretel" (1983), narrating the short film "Vincent" (1982) and appearing in the feature film "Edward Scissorhands" (1990). Actresses Ada and Arlene Tai worked with Burton as extras in "Ed Wood" before going on to be cast in "Big Fish" (2003). In addition to starring in "Beetlejuice", "Edward Scissorhands", and "Frankenweenie" (2012), Winona Ryder appeared in the Burton-directed music video for The Killers' "Here with Me". 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, producers Denise Di Novi, Allison Abbate, Richard D. Zanuck, and Derek Frey, composer Danny Elfman, composer/music supervisor/music producer/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 Ve Neill, 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 "" (2012), for which Bekmambetov also served as director. Burton has also collaborated with puppet manufacturers Mackinnon & Saunders three times: a failed attempt on "Mars Attacks!", "Corpse Bride", and "Frankenweenie".