Tom Waits


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Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive music...

Place of Birth: Pomona, California, USA

Date of Birth: Dec 7, 1949


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Filmography

Actor (56 Known Credits)


The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Prospector (segment "All Gold Canyon")

The Moon’s Milk

Captain Millipede (voice)

Seven Psychopaths

Zachariah Rigby

Twixt

The narrator

Domino

The Wanderer

La tigre e la neve

Himself / Sè stesso

Mystery Men

Doc Heller

Short Cuts

Earl Piggot

Dracula

R.M. Renfield

The Fisher King

Disabled Vet

Bis ans Ende der Welt

Himself/Singer in bar (uncredited)

The Two Jakes

Plainclothes Policeman

Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter

Himself (segment "It's All Right With Me")

Mystery Train

Radio D.J

Cold Feet

Kenny

Big Time

Himself

Ironweed

Rudy

The Cotton Club

Irving Stark

The Stone Boy

Petrified man at carnival (uncredited)

The Outsiders

Buck Merrill

One from the Heart

Trumpet player (uncredited)

Wolfen

Drunken Bar Owner (uncredited)

Hermit Bob
Waller
Prospector (segment "All Gold Canyon")
Captain Millipede (voice)
Narrator
Zachariah Rigby
Twixt (2011)
The narrator
Engineer
Himself
Domino (2005)
The Wanderer
Himself / Sè stesso
Mystery Men (1999)
Doc Heller
Short Cuts (1993)
Earl Piggot
Dracula (1992)
R.M. Renfield
Disabled Vet
Himself/Singer in bar (uncredited)
Queens Logic (1991)
Monte
Himself
The Two Jakes (1990)
Plainclothes Policeman
Himself (segment "It's All Right With Me")
Mystery Train (1989)
Radio D.J
Cold Feet (1989)
Kenny
Big Time (1988)
Himself
Al Silk
Ironweed (1987)
Rudy
Down by Law (1986)
Zack
Irving Stark
The Stone Boy (1984)
Petrified man at carnival (uncredited)
The Outsiders (1983)
Buck Merrill
Rumble Fish (1983)
Benny
Trumpet player (uncredited)
Himself
Wolfen (1981)
Drunken Bar Owner (uncredited)
Himself
Mumbles

Original Music Composer (3 Known Credits)


The Last Castle

Original Music Composer

Night on Earth

Original Music Composer

One from the Heart

Original Music Composer

Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer

Music (5 Known Credits)


Songs (1 Known Credits)


Songs

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