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Tom Waits

Singer-songwriter / Actor / Composer / Writer / Jazz Guitarist | * 12/07/1949 (74) | Pomona, California (United States of America (USA))
Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American musician, composer, songwriter, and actor. His lyrics often focus on the underbelly of society and are delivered in his trademark deep, gravelly voice. He began in the folk scene during the 1970s, but his music since the 1980s has reflected the influence of such diverse genres as rock, country, Delta blues, opera, vaudeville, cabaret, funk, hip hop and experimental techniques verging on industrial music. Per The Wall Street Journal, Waits "has composed a body of work that’s at least comparable to any songwriter’s in pop today. A keen, sensitive and sympathetic chronicler of the adrift and downtrodden, Mr. Waits creates three-dimensional characters who, even in their confusion and despair, are capable of insight and startling points of view. Their stories are accompanied by music that’s unlike any other in pop history.” Waits was born and raised in a middle-class family in California. Inspired by the work of Bob Dylan and the Beat Generation, he began singing on the San Diego folk circuit. He relocated to Los Angeles in 1972, where he worked as a songwriter before signing a recording contract with Asylum Records. His first albums were the jazzy Closing Time (1973), The Heart of Saturday Night (1974) and Nighthawks... ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Documentaries

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Awards & Nominations for Tom Waits

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Academy Award for Best Original Song Score Shortlist Music Prize
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Movies with Tom Waits as Actor(55)

as (voice)2023 Wildwood
as Hunley2023 The Absence Of Eden
as himself2022 This Is Sparklehorse
as Rex Blau2021 Licorice Pizza
as News Stand Owner (uncredited)2019 Motherless Brooklyn
as Hermit Bob2019 The Dead Don't Die
as Prospector (segment "All Gold Canyon")2018 The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
as Captain Millipede (voice)2018 The Moon’s Milk
as Waller2018 The Old Man & the Gun
as Narrator2013 The Laughing Heart
as Zachariah Rigby2012 Seven Psychopaths
as Virgil (Voice)2011 The Monster of Nix
as Narrator (voice)2011 Twixt
as Engineer2010 The Book of Eli
as The Wanderer2005 Domino
as Himself / Sè stesso2005 The Tiger and the Snow
as Doc Heller1999 Mystery Men
as Earl Piggot1993 Short Cuts
as R.M. Renfield1992 Bram Stoker's Dracula
as Monte1991 Queens Logic
as Disabled Vet1991 The Fisher King
as Singer in Bar (uncredited)1991 Until the End of the World
as Plainclothes Policeman (uncredited)1990 The Two Jakes
as Kenny1989 Cold Feet
as Radio DJ (voice)1989 Mystery Train
as himself1988 Big Time
as Al Silk1988 Candy Mountain
as Rudy1987 Ironweed
as Zack1986 Down by Law
as Irving Stark1984 The Cotton Club
as Petrified man at carnival (uncredited)1984 The Stone Boy
as Benny1983 Rumble Fish
as Buck Merrill1983 The Outsiders
as himself1982 Poetry in Motion
as Trumpet player (uncredited)1982 One from the Heart
as Drunken Bar Owner (uncredited)1981 Wolfen
as himself1979 Tom Waits for No One
as Mumbles1978 Paradise Alley

TV Shows/Series with Tom Waits as Actor(6)

as The Narrator (voice)2021 Ultra City Smiths
as himself1996 The Daily Show
as Self - Musical Guest1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as himself1991 Fishing with John
as Self - Musical Guest1975 Saturday Night Live

Movies with Tom Waits as Crew(12)

Writing/Lyricist2001 Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
Sound/Original Music Composer2001 The Last Castle
Sound/Original Music Composer1991 Night on Earth
Sound/Songs1991 Night on Earth
Sound/Music1990 The Black Rider
Sound/Songs1989 La fine della notte
Writing/Writer1988 Big Time
Sound/Music1986 Down by Law
Sound/Music1984 Streetwise
Sound/Original Music Composer1982 One from the Heart
Sound/Music1979 Tom Waits for No One

Additional Information

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Full Name: Tom Thomas Alan Waits
Born: Wednesday, 12/07 1949 (December) in Pomona, California (United States of America (USA)) (current age: 74 years + 113 days)
Zodiac sign: Sagittarius (Chinese zodiac sign: Ox)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: Hilltop High School, O'Farrell Community School, Southwestern College
Record Label: Asylum Records, Epitaph Records, Island Records, Anti-
Spouses (current/former): Kathleen Brennan
Other names for Tom Waits (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Thomas Alan Waits"
Tom Waits frequently works together with these people:
Tress MacNeille (36x, Actress)
Andy Samberg (31x, Actor)
Bill Hader (25x, Actor)
Pamela Hayden (23x, Actress)
Kristen Wiig (20x, Actress)
Fred Armisen (20x, Actor)
Maggie Roswell (17x, Actress)
Will Forte (16x, Actor)
Kenan Thompson (16x, Actor)
Jim Jarmusch (15x, Crew)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:14152, Added: 05/06/2018, Last updated: 03/09/2024