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Alan Menken
Composer, Editor, Producer, Additional CreditsBorn July 22, 1949 (76 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").
Alan Menken Filmography
| 2024 | Spellbound · as Original Music Composer |
| 2023 | The Little Mermaid · as Original Music Composer |
| 2022 | |
| 2019 | The Little Mermaid Live! · as Original Music Composer |
| 2019 | |
| 2018 | Howard · as Original Music Composer |
| 2017 | Newsies: The Broadway Musical · as Composer |
| 2016 | Disney's Broadway Hits at Royal Albert Hall · as Composer |
| 2016 | Sausage Party · as Original Music Composer |
| 2016 | Level Up Norway (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2015 | Galavant (TV Series) |
| 2014 | The 37th Annual Kennedy Center Honors · as Composer |
| 2012 | The Neighbors (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2012 | Mirror Mirror · as Original Music Composer |
| 2010 | Tangled · as Original Music Composer |
| 2009 | |
| 2006 | |
| 2006 | The Shaggy Dog · as Original Music Composer |
| 2004 | A Christmas Carol: The Musical · as Composer |
| 2004 | |
| 2004 | |
| 2003 | |
| 1997 | Hercules · as Original Music Composer |
| 1996 | Beauty and the Beast: A Concert on Ice · as Original Music Composer |
| 1996 | |
| 1995 | Aladdin on Ice · as Original Music Composer |
| 1995 | Pocahontas · as Original Music Composer |
| 1993 | Life with Mikey · as Original Music Composer |
| 1992 | |
| 1992 | Aladdin · as Original Music Composer |
| 1990 | |
| 1989 | The Little Mermaid · as Original Music Composer |
| 1986 | Little Shop of Horrors · as Original Music Composer |
| 1980 | The Line · as Composer |
| 2023 | |
| 2020 | The Disney Family Singalong · as Self - Performer |
| 2020 | Stars In The House (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2019 | 1989: The Year That Made Us (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2019 | |
| 2018 | Howard · as Self / Various Character Scratch Singing |
| 2016 | Disney's Broadway Hits at Royal Albert Hall · as Himself - Special Guest |
| 2014 | The 37th Annual Kennedy Center Honors · as Self - Performer |
| 2014 | Kino+ (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2013 | The Broadway.Com Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2012 | The 66th Annual Tony Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 2011 | |
| 2011 | The 65th Annual Tony Awards · as Self - Nominee |
| 2011 | The 83rd Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Performer |
| 2011 | The 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards · as Self - Nominee |
| 2010 | The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts · as Self - Singer |
| 2010 | Show People with Paul Wontorek (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2009 | C à Vous (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2009 | Waking Sleeping Beauty · as Self - Ariel (voice) / Lumiere (voice) (archive Footage) |
| 2009 | The Boys · as Self |
| 2009 | NPR Music Tiny Desk Concerts (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2008 | The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts · as Self - Singer |
| 2008 | The 62nd Annual Tony Awards · as Self - Nominee |
| 2008 | The 80th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Nominee |
| 2006 | |
| 2006 | Made in Hollywood: Teen Edition (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2005 | Made In Hollywood (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2004 | The Paul O'Grady Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2003 | |
| 2002 | Tale as Old as Time: The Making of 'Beauty and the Beast' · as Self - Composer |
| 2001 | Walk on By: The Story of Popular Song (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1997 | Movie Surfers (TV Series) · as Self - Composer |
| 1997 | The View (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1996 | Theater Talk (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1996 | The 68th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 1994 | WGN Morning News (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1994 | The 48th Annual Tony Awards · as Self - Nominee |
| 1994 | |
| 1993 | The 65th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 1992 | The 64th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 1991 | Movie Days (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1990 | The 62nd Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 1990 | The 47th Annual Golden Globe Awards 1990 · as Self - Winner |
| 1979 | CBS Sunday Morning With Jane Pauley (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1976 | Working in the Theatre (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1975 | Good Morning America (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1956 | Tony Awards (TV Series) · as Self - Nominee |
| 2015 | Galavant (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1996 | Jungle Cubs (TV Series) |
| 2024 | Spellbound · as Lyricist |
| 2022 | Disenchanted · as Songs |
| 2019 | Aladdin · as Songs |
| 2017 | Newsies: The Broadway Musical · as Musical |
| 2017 | Beauty and the Beast · as Songs |
| 2017 | Tangled: Before Ever After · as Songs |
| 2007 | Enchanted · as Songs |
| 2004 | A Christmas Carol: The Musical · as Musical |
| 2004 | Home on the Range · as Songs |
| 1996 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame · as Songs |
| 1992 | Newsies · as Songs |
| 1991 | Beauty and the Beast · as Songs |
| 1986 | Little Shop of Horrors · as Musical |