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Richard Elfman is an American actor, musician, director, producer, screenwriter, journalist, author and Publishing.
When Richard was four, his family moved to the Crenshaw district, where Elfman excelled as a track champion at Dorsey High School, subsequently becoming an amateur middleweight boxer. Elfman dropped out of college and opened clothing stores adjacent UC Santa Barbara and UC Berkeley. He moved to Paris in the early 1970s to perform in theater as well as to record music in London. Presently, Elfman lives in the Hollywood Hills.
Shortly after his stint with the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, Elfman acted in and directed a stage production of L'Histoire du soldat, which won a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Production.
Owing to its cult following, Forbidden Zone still screens in numerous cities and Elfman often performs in a live 20-minute pre-show composed of local artists, involving music, video clips and burlesque choreographed by Anastasia Elfman. Facilities allowing, Elfman, an accomplished grill-master, throws a barbecue after the show. More recently, theaters have also begun performing "shadow cast" screenings of Forbidden Zone similar to those made famous by The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), in which fans who are dressed in character perform in sync alongside the film. Elfman sometimes participates by playing characters in these live performances.
Elfman also directed the 1994 horror film Shrunken Heads for Full Moon Entertainment—footage and scenery of which was later reused for sequences in the 1996 Full Moon feature Zarkorr! The Invader—and the 1998 horror comedy Modern Vampires, both of which were written by Forbidden Zone writer and former Mystic Knights member Matthew Bright. In a 2009 interview, Elfman revealed he had also done various pseudonymous film work under the names "Aristide Sumatra" and "Mahatma Kane Sumatra", including the 1994 Mimi Lesseos martial arts film Streets of Rage.
Elfman wrote and directed a musical horror film, titled Bloody Bridget, in 2024.
His first novel, The Schlimazel of Sebreim, a vampire tale, was published by Encyclopocalypse Publications in 2023. Elfman has two more novels slated for publication in 2024.
Elfman is presently engaged to write and develop animation projects for FilmHenge and The Apiary group.
| 1980 | Forbidden Zone | Also producer, co-writer and composer Not distributed until 1982 |
| 1981 | "Little Girls" | Oingo Boingo music videos |
| 1982 | "Private Life" | |
| 1983 | "Nothing Bad Ever Happens" | |
| 1994 | Shrunken Heads | |
| Streets of Rage | Also co-writer (as Aristide Sumatra) | |
| 1996 | Bone Chillers | Four episodes of children's horror series |
| 1998 | Modern Vampires | Also co-producer |
| 2003 | Date or Disaster | Short film; also writer and producer |
| 2008 | 28 Days to Vegas | Feature documentary; also producer |
| 2009 | 30 Days to Vegas | Feature documentary; also producer (as Mahatma Kane Sumatra) |
| 2019 | Aliens, Clowns & Geeks | Intergalactic war between clowns and aliens |
| 2020 | Intro to Forbidden Zone: Director's Cut | |
| 2024 | Bloody Bridget | Musical comedy horror |
| 1977 | I Never Promised You a Rose Garden | Drumming Demon | Appearing as member of the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo |
| 1980 | Forbidden Zone | Masseuse/Prisoner | |
| 1994 | Shrunken Heads | Preacher on Bus | |
| 1997 | George of the Jungle | Bongo Drummer at Dance Studio | As Aristide Sumatra |
| 1998 | Modern Vampires | Cop with Doughnut | |
| 2002 | Scarecrow | Sheriff Patterson/Hewitt | As Aristide Sumatra |
| 2003 | Date or Disaster | Cop with Donut | |
| 2004 | Demons at the Door | Monkey Demon | As Aristide Sumatra |
| 2012 | The Geologist | The Geologist | Short film |
| 2019 | Aliens, Clowns & Geeks | Clown Bippy | |
| 2020 | Stupid Cupid | Patient | TV movie |
| 2020 | Sorority of the Damned | Reynold Harmony | Sorority house horror film |
| 2022 | The Once and Future Smash | Himself | Feature film mockumentary |
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