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Personal Info
Known For
Sound
Birthday
July 22, 1949
Place of Birth
New Rochelle, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Alan Irwin Menken
Alan Menken
0.3 Popularity
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
6.8
Self
Disney 100: A Century of Dreams – A Special Edition of 20/20
2023
8.0
Hollywood in Vienna 2022: A Celebration of Disney Classics - Featuring Alan Menken
2022
0.0
Himself
An Evening with Alan Menken
2020
8.3
Self - Performer
The Disney Family Singalong
2020
6.8
Self / Various Character Scratch Singing
Howard
2018
7.9
Himself - Special Guest
Disney's Broadway Hits at London's Royal Albert Hall
2016
6.3
Himself
Behind the Magic: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
2015
0.0
Self
Hollywood in Vienna
2011
0.0
Self
Beyond Beauty: The Untold Stories Behind the Making of Beauty and the Beast
2010
7.2
Self - Ariel (voice) / Lumiere (voice) (archive footage)
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
Credits
Disney 100: A Century of Dreams – A Special Edition of 20/20
as Self
2023
6.8
Hollywood in Vienna 2022: A Celebration of Disney Classics - Featuring Alan Menken
2022
8.0
An Evening with Alan Menken
as Himself
2020
0.0
The Disney Family Singalong
as Self - Performer
2020
8.3
Howard
as Self / Various Character Scratch Singing
2018
6.8
Disney's Broadway Hits at London's Royal Albert Hall
as Himself - Special Guest
2016
7.9
Behind the Magic: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
as Himself
2015
6.3
Hollywood in Vienna
as Self
2011
0.0
Beyond Beauty: The Untold Stories Behind the Making of Beauty and the Beast
as Self
2010
0.0
Waking Sleeping Beauty
as Self - Ariel (voice) / Lumiere (voice) (archive footage)
2009
7.2
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
as Self
2009
7.3
🎬
Treasures Untold: The Making of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid'
as Self
2006
0.0
Diamond in the Rough: The Making of Aladdin
as Self
2004
6.0
Listen to Her Heart: The Life and Music of Laurie Beechman
as Self
2003
0.0
The Making of Aladdin: A Whole New World
as Self
1992
7.0
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
1956
5.9