Tom Waits
Born: 1949-12-07 Pomona, California, USA
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 musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and as a supporting actor in films, including Down By Law, Bram Stoker's Dracula ...
Acting (in our collection)
Licorice Pizza
(2021)
Motherless Brooklyn
(2019)
The Dead Don't Die
(2019)
The Old Man & the Gun
(2018)
Seven Psychopaths
(2012)
Twixt
(2011)
The Book of Eli
(2010)
Wristcutters: A Love Story
(2006)
The Tiger and the Snow
(2005)
Domino
(2005)
Bukowski: Born Into This
(2003)
Coffee and Cigarettes
(2003)
Mystery Men
(1999)
Short Cuts
(1993)
The Fisher King
(1991)
Fishing with John
(1991)
The Two Jakes
(1990)
Cold Feet
(1989)
Mystery Train
(1989)
Ironweed
(1987)
Down by Law
(1986)
The Cotton Club
(1984)
The Outsiders
(1983)
Rumble Fish
(1983)
Poetry in Motion
(1982)
One from the Heart
(1981)
Wolfen
(1981)
Paradise Alley
(1978)