Timothy Walter Buton was born on August 25th 1958 in Butbank, California. His mum Jean ran a gift shop and his dad Bill worked for the Burbank Park and Recreation Department. Bill had also been a baseball player. Tim has a younger brother Daniel. Tim found great pleasure in painting, drawing and watching movies. He was not overly good at school and was shy and artistic. Tim enjoyed watching monster and horror films and particularly liked the works of Ray Harryhausen. One of his favorite actors was Vincent Price.
Tim is an American film director. His first feature film was Pee-wee’s Big Adventure in 1985. Some of his subsequent films have won Academy Awards. He enjoys making slightly odd films like Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands and the Nightmare Before Christmas. Some of Tim’s films have been major Hollywood blockbusters. You would include Batman, Batman Returns, Sleepy Hollow and, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in this list of amazing films. One of his more recent films has been Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. This recent movie won the Golden Globe for the Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy category.
Tim has recently finished working on 9, an animated science fiction fantasy film. His next film was Alice in Wonderland due for release in March 2010. With Alice in Wonderland we see Tim team up with friend Johnny Depp. Johnny Depp and Tim have worked on several movies together incuding Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Film has long been a love for Tim Burton. Tim loved to make short movies in the backyard. He used stop motion animation, or shot them on eight millimeter film without sound. Tim attended the California Institute of the Arts after he graduated from Burbank High School.

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Timothy Walter Burton, known as Tim Burton is one of the most appreciated artists in the industry of movies. He is a film director, a producer and a writer. Burton is famous for his dark and weird movies like The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ed Wood, Corpse Bride, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and Alice In Wonderland. Burton was born on August 25, 1958 in Burbank, California, United States of America. He followed the classes of Burbank High School and graduated from the California Institute of Arts. His work has a tremendous influence of Edgar Allan Poe, Roger Corman, Alan Moore, Alfred Hitchcock and Steven Spielberg. Burton keeps his life private, but it is know that he was married since 1989 to 1993 with Lena Gieseke and he dated Lisa Marie since 1993 and until 2001. Since 2001 he has a relationship with Helena Bonham Carter with whom he has two children, Billy Ray, born in 2003 and Nell, born in 2007. The godfather of both their children is Johnny Depp, the actor that inspires Burton and that appeared in a large number of his movies.
Tim Burton surely is one of the most famous names in Hollywood. The star has become well known as a movie director, producer, but also as a film writer. The famous director was born in August, 1958, in Burbank, California, United States. He made his debut in Hollywood in 1982, but it is important to mention that Tim has always known that what he wanted was to develop a career in the entertainment industry. And he has surely managed to achieve this purpose. Some of the most famous movies at which the director worked include The Nightmare Before Christmas, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet, but also Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Still, the most successful movie ever released by the star is without a doubt Alice in Wonderland.
Born August 25, 1958, Tim Burton is now a very popular and appreciated American film director, producer, writer and artist. One of the most famous collaborators of him is Johnny Depp, being also a good friend of him. The artist was born in Burbank, California. His father was a cat-themed gift shop owner and his mother was a former minor league baseball player and a worker at the Burbank Park. This famous and talented man has as a source of inspiration the works of Edgar Allan Poe, as well as the horror films such as Godzilla. He graduated Burbank High School and then attended the California Institute of the Arts, wanting to study character animation. In 1979, he graduated from CalArts in Calofornia and his short film called Stalk Of the Celery Monster was discovered by Walt Disney Productions’ animation studio and that was how his great career began. At the beginning, he worked as a storyboard artist and an animator, as well as a concept artist on several films such as The Fox and the Hound, The Black Cauldron and Tron.