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person_profile-Tom Waits

Tom Waits Age: 75

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Tom Waits

Date of Birth:

Dec 07, 1949

Country of birth:

USA

Biography of

Tom Waits

    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.

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Filmography of

Tom Waits

Found 51 Movies in total

The Absence of Eden

Hunley ( Actor )

... 2024

... 2024

... 2023

This Is Sparklehorse

Self ( Actor )

... 2022

... 2022

Licorice Pizza

Rex Blau ( Actor )

... 2021

Motherless Brooklyn

News Stand Owner (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2019

The Dead Don't Die

Hermit Bob ( Actor )

... 2019

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Prospector (segment "All Gold Canyon") ( Actor )

... 2018

The Old Man & the Gun

Waller ( Actor )

... 2018

... 2017

... 2017

... 2015

Seven Psychopaths

Zachariah Rigby ( Actor )

... 2012

Twixt

Narrator (voice) ( Actor )

... 2011

The Book of Eli

Engineer ( Actor )

... 2010

... 2009

... 2008

... 2007

The Tiger and the Snow

Himself / Sè stesso ( Actor )

... 2005

Domino

Wanderer ( Actor )

... 2005

... 2004

Bukowski: Born Into This

Himself ( Actor )

... 2003

Mystery Men

Doc Heller ( Actor )

... 1999

Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight

The Narrator ( Actor )

... 1997

Short Cuts

Earl Piggot ( Actor )

... 1993

... 1993

Bram Stoker's Dracula

R.M. Renfield ( Actor )

... 1992

... 1991

The Fisher King

Disabled Vet ( Actor )

... 1991

Until the End of the World

Singer in Bar (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1991

Queens Logic

Monte ( Actor )

... 1991

... 1990

The Two Jakes

Plainclothes Policeman (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1990

... 1989

Mystery Train

Radio DJ (voice) ( Actor )

... 1989

Cold Feet

Kenny ( Actor )

... 1989

Big Time

Himself ( Actor )

Writer

... 1988

Candy Mountain

Al Silk ( Actor )

... 1988

... 1988

Ironweed

Rudy ( Actor )

... 1987

Down by Law

Zack ( Actor )

Music

... 1986

The Cotton Club

Irving Stark ( Actor )

... 1984

The Stone Boy

Petrified man at carnival (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1984

Rumble Fish

Benny ( Actor )

... 1983

The Outsiders

Buck Merrill ( Actor )

... 1983

Poetry in Motion

Himself ( Actor )

... 1982

One from the Heart

Trumpet player (uncredited) ( Actor )

Original Music Composer

... 1981

Wolfen

Drunken Bar Owner (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1981

Paradise Alley

Mumbles ( Actor )

... 1978

Tom Waits: Rockpalast '77

Himself ( Actor )

Music

... 1977