Cast
Tom Waits
Acting
Cast
Tom Waits
Known for
Acting
Born
1949-12-07
From
Pomona, California, USA
Also known as Thomas Alan Waits, æ±€ć§Â·ćšć č
Biography
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 worked primarily in jazz during the 1970s, but his music since the 1980s has reflected greater influence from blues, rock, vaudeville, and experimental genres. Waits was born and raised in a middle-class family in Whittier, California. Inspired by the work of Bob Dylan and the Beat Generation, he began singing on the San Diego folk music circuit as a young boy. 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 jazz-oriented Closing Time (1973) and The Heart of Saturday Night (1974), which reflected his lyrical interest in nightlife, poverty, and criminality. He repeatedly toured the United States, Europe, and Japan, and attracted greater critical recognition and commercial success with Small Change (1976), Blue Valentine (1978), and Heartattack and Vine (1980). He produced the soundtrack for Francis Ford Coppola's film One from the Heart (1981), and subsequently made cameo appearances in several Coppola films. In 1980, Waits married Kathleen Brennan, split from his manager and record label, and moved to New York City. With Brennan's encouragement and frequent collaboration, he pursued a more experimental and eclectic musical aesthetic influenced by the work of Harry Partch and Captain Beefheart. This was reflected in a series of albums released by Island Records, including Swordfishtrombones (1983), Rain Dogs (1985), and Franks Wild Years (1987). He continued appearing in films, notably starring in Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law (1986), and also made theatrical appearances. With theatre director Robert Wilson, he produced the musicals The Black Rider (1990) and Alice (1992), first performed in Hamburg. Having returned to California in the 1990s, his albums Bone Machine (1992), The Black Rider (1993), and Mule Variations (1999) earned him increasing critical acclaim and multiple Grammy Awards. In the late 1990s, he switched to the record label ANTI-, which released Blood Money (2002), Alice (2002), Real Gone (2004), and Bad as Me (2011). Despite a lack of mainstream commercial success, Waits has influenced many musicians and gained an international cult following, and several biographies have been written about him. In 2015, he was ranked at No. 55 on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time". He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011.
Bram Stoker's Dracula
as R.M. Renfield
The Outsiders
as Buck Merrill
The Book of Eli
as Engineer
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
as Prospector (segment "All Gold Canyon")
Licorice Pizza
as Rex Blau
Seven Psychopaths
as Zachariah Rigby
Mystery Men
as Doc Heller
Father Mother Sister Brother
as Father
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
Domino
as Wanderer
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
as Devil
The Dead Don't Die
as Hermit Bob
The Cotton Club
as Irving Stark
The Fisher King
as Disabled Vet (uncredited)
Rumble Fish
as Benny
Motherless Brooklyn
as News Stand Owner (uncredited)
Short Cuts
as Earl Piggot
Wildwood
as (voice)
Wild Horse Nine
Paradise Alley
as Mumbles
Mystery Train
as Radio DJ (voice)
Ironweed
as Rudy
Wolfen
as Drunken Bar Owner (uncredited)
Until the End of the World
as Singer in Bar
Ray Gunn
as Eyera (voice)
One from the Heart
as Trumpet player (uncredited)
Twixt
as Narrator (voice)
Wristcutters: A Love Story
as Kneller
Coffee and Cigarettes
as Tom (segment "Somewhere in California")
The Tiger and the Snow
as Self / SĂš stesso
Down by Law
as Zack
The Two Jakes
as Plainclothes Policeman (uncredited)
The Old Man & the Gun
as Waller
The Absence of Eden
as Hunley
Candy Mountain
as Al Silk
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
as Self - Organ/Guitar
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
as Wolf
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
as Self
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
as Self
The Stone Boy
as Petrified man at carnival (uncredited)
Cold Feet
as Kenny
Queens Logic
as Monte
Bukowski: Born Into This
as Self
Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious
as Self
Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale
as Silva
Tom Waits: Tales from a Cracked Jukebox
as Self
Greasy Lake
as Narrator
Tom Waits: Big Time
as Self
Roy Orbison: Black and White Night 30
as Self
Keith Richards: Under the Influence
as Self
Poetry in Motion
as Self
The Making of 'One from the Heart'
as Self
Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight
as Narrator (voice)
The Monster of Nix
as Virgil (Voice)
Coffee and Cigarettes III
as Tom
This Is Sparklehorse
as Self
John Lurie: A Lounge Lizard Alone
as Zack (Archive footage)
Tom Waits: Elephant Beer Blues - Songs After Closing Time
as Self
One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur
as Self
The Laughing Heart
as Narrator
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Tom Waits - Burma Shave [Live Concert]
as Self
The Last Ride
as Self
Star.Wav
as The Caller
A Brief History of John Baldessari
as Narrator
Tom Waits: A Day in Vienna
as Self
Tom Waits: Under Review
as Self
Tom Waits: Rockpalast '77
as Self
Tom Waits - One Star Shining : The First Decade
as Self
The Moonâs Milk
as Captain Millipede (voice)
Human Nature in Eleven Parts
as Narrator "Laughing Heart" (archive footage)
Tom Waits: No Visitors After Midnight
as Self
Tom Waits - Live at Premio Tenco in Sanremo Italy
as Himself
Tom Waits - Live On The Tube
as Self
Tom Waits: VH1 Storytellers
as Self
Tom Waits: Romeo Bleeding - Live from Austin
as Self
Tom Waits: Glitter and Doom Concert Experience
as Self
Tom Waits - Bridge School Benefit
as Self
Tom Waits for No One
as Self
Tom Waits - Dead Man Walking, Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
as Self
Tom Waits at Theatre le Palace
as Self
The Black Rider
as Himself