In 1992, he was nominated with yet another Tim Burton film, this time for Burton's superhero sequel, Batman Returns, where his effects on Danny DeVito as The Penguin, Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman, and in delivering Burton's general vision for what was an increasingly Gothic Gotham City earned him more recognition for his work ethic and loyalty to what was an intrinsic ability to bring different directors ' ideas to life.

Burton's strength lied in her comprehensive ability to clearly relay a thorough understanding of design and its principles to a group with no prior artistic training or inclination.

Elfman immediately developed a rapport with Burton and has gone on to score all but two of Burton's major studio releases: Ed Wood which was under production while Elfman and Burton were having a fight, and Sweeney Todd.

Elfman also provided the singing voice for Jack Skellington in Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas and the voices of both Barrel and the " Clown with the Tear-Away Face ".

However, Burton's personal style clashed with Disney's standards, and he longed to work on solo projects.

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 ( and Burton's ) hero Vincent Price, with Price himself providing narration.

Starring Johnny Depp in the title role, the film is an homage to the low-budget science fiction and horror films of Burton's childhood, and handles its comical protagonist and his motley band of collaborators with surprising fondness and sensitivity.

Richard Burton's description of the acting profession had convinced him that it would be better than completing his chemistry degree and so Mitchell attended RADA for two years, performing in the evening with the Unity Theatre.

It is usually attributed to renowned orientalist and author Sir Richard Francis Burton, but the chief work was done by the pioneering Indian archaeologist, Bhagwanlal Indraji, under the guidance of Burton's friend, the Indian civil servant Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot, and with the assistance of a student, Shivaram Parshuram Bhide.

They had two daughters, and divorced in 1963 after Burton's widely reported affair with Elizabeth Taylor.

Julie Andrews, fresh from her triumph in My Fair Lady, played Guenevere to Burton's King Arthur, with Robert Goulet as Lancelot completing the love triangle.

Part of Burton's success was due to how well he varied his acting with the three female characters, each of whom he tries to seduce differently: Ava Gardner ( the randy hotel owner ), Sue Lyon ( the nubile American tourist ), and Deborah Kerr ( the poor, repressed artist ).

In 1968 Burton's elder brother, Ifor, slipped and fell, breaking his neck, after a lengthy drinking session with Burton at the actor's second home in Céligny, Switzerland.

In 2000, Ellis Amburn's biography of Elizabeth Taylor suggested that Burton had an affair with Laurence Olivier and tried to seduce Eddie Fisher, although this was strongly denied by Burton's younger brother Graham Jenkins.

" From the very beginning Tim wanted the Maggot to be a Peter Lorre-esque character, and we had a good time working with that and it went through various design changes ," said co-director Mike Johnson in the book Tim Burton's Corpse Bride: An Invitation to the Wedding.

ISBN 0-451-21628-8 ; a fictionalized account of Rahab's early life and meeting with the Hebrew spies, Book 2 in Burton's " Women of the Bible " series.

There are various examples of remakes which are most associated with the reimagine or renovate terms, and these include Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes, Nora Ephron's Bewitched, Marcus Nispel's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th, Rob Zombie's Halloween, Samuel Bayer's A Nightmare on Elm Street, Ronald D. Moore's Battlestar Galactica, David Eick's Bionic Woman, Nelson McCormick's Prom Night, Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead, and Kenneth Johnson V. Tim Burton has denied that his 2010 film Alice in Wonderland is a renovation of Lewis Carroll's classic novel ; however, the plot line of the film bears very little resemblance to the original or derivatives of it, such as the classic 1951 animated film from Walt Disney.

While the use of the narrative technique of stream of consciousness is usually associated with modernist novelists in the first part of the twentieth-century, a number of precursors have been suggested, including Persian works of the 13th century and Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy ( 1621 ).

DeVito's work during this time includes Other People's Money with Gregory Peck, director Barry Levinson's Tin Men as a competitive rival salesman to Richard Dreyfuss ' character, two co-starring vehicles with Arnold Schwarzenegger ( the comedies Twins and Junior ), and playing The Penguin as a deformed sociopath in director Tim Burton's Batman Returns ( 1992 ).

The story is given, with a different date, in Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy of 1621, where it is used as an example of supernatural forces: ' At Hammel in Saxony, ann.

The virtual Richard Burton was also improved ; the whole face was animated ( an actor was found with a similar facial structure, all of Burton's narrative parts were mimed, and his face was super-imposed onto the face of the actor ).

Then, starting with 1985's Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Danny Elfman began scoring major films with increasing frequency, including almost all of Tim Burton's films.

Labbe also contributes to Fangoria magazine and is currently doing a series of full-length interviews with surviving original cast members, leading up to the release of Burton's film.

In his later years, Gielgud played the Ghost of Hamlet's Father in productions of the play, first to Richard Burton's Melancholy Dane on the Broadway stage which Gielgud directed in 1964, then on television with Richard Chamberlain, and finally in a radio production starring Gielgud's protégé Kenneth Branagh.

In need of work, Poe accepted a job at the low salary of $ 10 per week as assistant editor for Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, despite their negative review of his novel.

Jack Pumpkinhead may have been the role model for Tim Burton's portrayal of Jack Skellington, given his lanky frame, " Pumpkin King " title, and low voice.

Burton's work with his father on the East Sussex town of St Leonards-on-Sea ( 1827 – 1837 ) had impressed

Allen was so impressed with Herlihy's voice that he used him in several of his films in the 1980s, including Hannah and Her Sisters, Radio Days and Zelig ; his other film credits included Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy and Tim Burton's Pee-wee's Big Adventure.

The two were impressed with Burton's unique talents and while not " Disney material ", they felt he deserved to be given respect.

Four James Bond movies, For Your Eyes Only ; Octopussy ; A View to a Kill and The Living Daylights amongst several other very large productions, such as Tim Burton's Batman, kept the studio busy during the decade.

The studio pressured Carpenter to cast a rock star in the role of Gracie Law, Jack Burton's love interest and constant source of aggravation.

Given that Hetfield recorded all rhythm and most harmony tracks on the band's first five albums, Hammett does not play on the studio recording, making it one of two songs in the whole Metallica repertoire, along with Cliff Burton's "( Anesthesia ) Pulling Teeth ", in which he does not appear.

Over the next few years, Winston and his company received more accolades for its work on many more Hollywood films, including Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands, John McTiernan's Predator, Alien Nation, The Monster Squad, and Predator 2.

In England, the term deist first appeared in Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy ( 1621 ).

This was followed by Burton's first live-action production Hansel and Gretel, a Japanese-themed adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale for the Disney Channel, which climaxes in a kung fu fight between Hansel and Gretel and the witch.

Ryder's first significant role came in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice ( 1988 ) as Lydia Deetz, a goth teenager, which won her critical and commercial recognition.

Kenneth Tynan said of Burton's performance, " His playing of Prince Hal turned interested speculation to awe almost as soon as he started to speak ; in the first intermission local critics stood agape in the lobbies.

Burton's audition for the role of Kinte was the first of his professional career.

Williams was a close friend of Kate's parents, Richard Burton and Burton's first wife, Sybil.

Though Burton was unfamiliar with Johnny Depp's then popular performance in 21 Jump Street, he had always been Burton's first choice.

The film is also Burton's first collaboration with actor Johnny Depp and cinematographer Stefan Czapsky.

He directed Richard Burton's first U. S. film, My Cousin Rachel, and then was given the first CinemaScope film to direct, The Robe in 1952.

The first animation created with the model was Stanley and Stella in: Breaking the Ice ( 1987 ), followed by a feature film debut in Tim Burton's film Batman Returns ( 1992 ) with computer generated bat swarms and armies of penguins marching through the streets of Gotham City.

Burton's first win in the Football League was a 5 – 2 win over Morecambe at the Pirelli Stadium.

Burton's first original releases under the name Danger Mouse were his collaborations with rapper Jemini, including the album Ghetto Pop Life, released in 2003 on Lex Records.

" The Fall of the House of Usher " was first published in September 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine.

Poe may have gotten the last name " Dupin " from a character in a series of stories first published Burton's Gentleman's Magazine in 1828 called " Unpublished passages in the Life of Vidocq, the French Minister of Police ".

Burton's first big break came when working as a VJ for the Total Request Live on MTV.

The first English translation was William Burton's The Most Delectable and Pleasaunt History of Clitiphon and Leucippe, first published in 1597 and reprinted in 1923, when only 394 copies were printed.

In October 2008, for the first time in Disney history Jack Skellington and Sally from Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas made appearances as meet and greet characters in Frontierland's halloween overlay.

Driving the # 99 Exide Batteries Ford for his new team, he finished 13th overall in the season standings despite failing to qualify for the Purolator 500 in March as a new team ( provisionals in the first four races were based on 1995 points, and Burton's team did not have points from 1995 ).