Alan Menken
Sound
Born: 1949-07-22 in New Rochelle, New York, USA
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").
Known For
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
Howard
Self / Various Character Scratch Singing
The Disney Family Singalong
Self - Performer
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Self - Ariel (voice) / Lumiere (voice) (archive footage)
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
Self
Disney 100: A Century of Dreams – A Special Edition of 20/20
Self
Hollywood in Vienna
Self
Beyond Beauty: The Untold Stories Behind the Making of Beauty and the Beast
Self
Behind the Magic: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Himself
The Making of Aladdin: A Whole New World
Self
Disney's Broadway Hits at London's Royal Albert Hall
Himself - Special Guest
An Evening with Alan Menken
Himself
Diamond in the Rough: The Making of Aladdin
Self
Listen to Her Heart: The Life and Music of Laurie Beechman
Self
