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Tim Burton Biography

Any Tim Burton biography will tell you that his childhood was far from normal. Perhaps that's what made him one of the greatest fantasy directors of all time.

Tim Burton biography

Real name: Timothy William Burton
Known as: Tim Burton
Born: 25 August 1958
From: Burbank, California, USA
Notable works: Batman, Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorshands, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow

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Burton grew up in Burbank, California, the youngest of three brothers. He was an unsettled child, often watching horror and low-budget films to escape from reality. Twice he got in trouble for staging an axe murder, prompting onlookers to call the police!

After graduating from high school,
Burton won a Disney scholarship to attend the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, in California. He studied for three years before becoming an animator apprentice for Walt Disney Studios, a job he found creatively stifling.

In the 1980s Burton started making films of his own, primarily horror and fantasy. His early works include a Japanese adaptation of Hansel and Gretel and Frankenweenie, a spin off of Frankenstein about a boy who brings his dog back to life (which he's currently remaking).

Burton's career gained momentum in the mid-1980s when he directed a string of successful films, namely Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, Beetlejuice and Batman. But it wasn’t until the he started working with Johnny Depp in the 1990s that he made his real mark in the fantasy movie realm.

Johnny Depp and Tim Burton charlie and the chocolate factory movie
Johnny Depp and Tim Burton on the set of the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

No Tim Burton biography would be complete without mention of his collaboration with Johnny, least of all one on a web site dedicated to fantasy! When those two get together, magic happens. Every time.

Their quirky outlook is a ideally suited to the fantasy genre and has resulted in many of my favorite fantasy films, most notably Edward Scissorhands (which 
Burton co-wrote and directed and Depp starred in).

Burton’s highly imaginative nature gives his movies an edge. He creates worlds in which the lines between fantasy and reality are blurred and characters venture on the edge of sanity

One of my friends worked as an extra on Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (2005). She told me Burton has an incredible creative energy. “His mind is everywhere at once,” she says, “and yet he remains incredibly focused.”

Every Tim Burton biography reflects the director’s life’s journey from a place of darkness in an unhappy childhood to a place of magic in the shadowy world of fantasy.






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