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Alan Menken

Composer, Editor, Producer, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn July 22, 1949 (75 years)
Alan Irwin Menken (born July 12, 1949) is an American composer, pianist, music director, and record producer, best known for his scores and songs for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. Menken's music for The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), and Pocahontas (1995) has each won him two Academy Awards. He also composed the scores and songs for Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Newsies (1992), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), Hercules (1997), Home on the Range (2004), Enchanted (2007), Tangled (2010), and Disenchanted (2022), among others. His accolades include winning eight Academy Awards — becoming the second most prolific Oscar winner in the music categories after Alfred Newman (who has 9 Oscars), a Tony Award, eleven Grammy Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, and a Daytime Emmy Award. Menken is one of nineteen people to have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony ("an EGOT").

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Noel
  • A Christmas Carol: The Musical

Known For

  • Beauty and the Beast
  • Aladdin
  • The Little Mermaid
  • Tangled
  • Pocahontas
  • Enchanted
  • Little Shop of Horrors
  • Hercules
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • Aladdin
  • The Little Mermaid
  • Galavant
  • Spellbound
  • A Christmas Carol: The Musical
  • The Neighbors
  • Newsies: The Broadway Musical
  • Jungle Cubs

Filmography

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