Alan Menken
SoundAlso Known As
Alan Irwin Menken
Biography
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
(14 total)
Waking Sleeping Beauty
as Self - Ariel (voice) / Lumiere (voice) (archive footage)
Howard
as Self / Various Character Scratch Singing
The Disney Family Singalong
as Self - Performer
Disney's Broadway Hits at London's Royal Albert Hall
as Himself - Special Guest
An Evening with Alan Menken
as Himself
TV Shows
(1 total)
Hollywood in Vienna
as Self