Cast

Tom Waits

Acting

Cast

Tom Waits

Known for

Acting

Born

1949-12-07

From

Pomona, California, USA

Also known as Thomas Alan Waits, 汤姆·威兹

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.

Tom Waits

Tom Waits

Biography

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Wildwood

The Book of Eli

The Outsiders

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Licorice Pizza

Father Mother Sister Brother

Seven Psychopaths

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

The Dead Don't Die

The Fisher King

Motherless Brooklyn

Wild Horse Nine

The Old Man & the Gun

Wolfen

Mystery Train

The Cotton Club

Short Cuts

Rumble Fish

Domino

Until the End of the World

Ray Gunn

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

Mystery Men

Coffee and Cigarettes

Twixt

Paradise Alley

Down by Law

The Two Jakes

Wristcutters: A Love Story

The Tiger and the Snow

Ironweed

The Absence of Eden

The Stone Boy

One from the Heart

Candy Mountain

Queens Logic

At Play in the Fields of the Lord

Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter

Bukowski: Born Into This

This Is Sparklehorse

Cold Feet

The Monster of Nix

The Black Rider

Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night

Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country

Coffee and Cigarettes III

Tom Waits: Big Time

Tom Waits for No One

Greasy Lake

Tom Waits: Tales from a Cracked Jukebox

Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale

Tom Waits: VH1 Storytellers

Keith Richards: Under the Influence

Tom Waits: Under Review

Human Nature in Eleven Parts

Tom Waits - Bridge School Benefit

Poetry in Motion

The Making of 'One from the Heart'

Tom Waits: A Day in Vienna

Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious

Star.Wav

The Last Ride

Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight

A Brief History of John Baldessari

The Laughing Heart

Tom Waits - Live On The Tube

One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur

Roy Orbison: Black and White Night 30

Tom Waits: Romeo Bleeding - Live from Austin

The Moon’s Milk

Tom Waits - Dead Man Walking, Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Tom Waits - Burma Shave [Live Concert]

Tom Waits at Theatre le Palace

Tom Waits: No Visitors After Midnight

Tom Waits - Live at Premio Tenco in Sanremo Italy

John Lurie: A Lounge Lizard Alone