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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Waits, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Outsiders
(Buck Merrill)
Rumble Fish
(Benny)
Coffee and Cigarettes
(Tom (segment "Somewhere in California"))
Licorice Pizza
(Rex Blau)
Down by Law
(Zack)
Short Cuts
(Earl Piggot)
Until the End of the World
(Singer in Bar)
The Tiger and the Snow
(Self / Sè stesso)
The Book of Eli
(Engineer)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
(Devil)
Wristcutters: A Love Story
(Kneller)
Mystery Men
(Doc Heller)
Roy Orbison: Black and White Night 30
(Self)
Ironweed
(Rudy)
Big Time
(Self)
Tom Waits at Theatre le Palace
(Self)
Candy Mountain
(Al Silk)
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
(Self - Organ/Guitar)
Queens Logic
(Monte)
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
(Wolf)
Twixt
(Narrator (voice))
Seven Psychopaths
(Zachariah Rigby)
Cold Feet
(Kenny)
A Brief History of John Baldessari
(Narrator)
Tom Waits - Bridge School Benefit
(Self)
Tom Waits - Burma Shave [Live Concert]
(Self)
Tom Waits: Romeo Bleeding - Live from Austin
(Self)
Tom Waits - One Star Shining : The First Decade
(Self)
Tom Waits: Under Review
(Self)
Tom Waits - No Visitors After Midnight
(Self)
One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur
(Self)
Tom Waits: A Day in Vienna
(Self)
Paradise Alley
(Mumbles)
Domino
(Wanderer)
Wildwood
((voice))
John Lurie: A Lounge Lizard Alone
(Zack (Archive footage))
Star.Wav
(The Caller)
Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale
(Silva)
The Laughing Heart
(Narrator)
Tom Waits: Glitter and Doom Concert Experience
(Self)
The Cotton Club
(Irving Stark)
Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious
(Self)
The Two Jakes
(Plainclothes Policeman (uncredited))
Keith Richards: Under the Influence
(Self)
The Fisher King
(Disabled Vet (uncredited))
Father Mother Sister Brother
Tom Waits: VH1 Storytellers
(Self)
This Is Sparklehorse
(Self)
One from the Heart
(Trumpet player (uncredited))
Mystery Train
(Radio DJ (voice))
Tom Waits for No One
(Self)
The Old Man & the Gun
(Waller)
Coffee and Cigarettes III
(Tom)
Tom Waits: Tales from a Cracked Jukebox
(Self)
Bukowski: Born Into This
(Self)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
(Prospector (segment "All Gold Canyon"))
The Stone Boy
(Petrified man at carnival (uncredited))
Poetry in Motion
(Self)
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
(Self)
The Dead Don't Die
(Hermit Bob)
The Moon’s Milk
(Captain Millipede (voice))
The Absence of Eden
(Hunley)
Tom Waits: Rockpalast '77
(Self)
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
(Self)
Wolfen
(Drunken Bar Owner (uncredited))
Motherless Brooklyn
(News Stand Owner (uncredited))
The Making of 'One from the Heart'
(Self)
Bram Stoker's Dracula
(R.M. Renfield)
The Monster of Nix
(Virgil (Voice))
Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight
(Narrator (voice))
The Daily Show
(Self)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
(Self - Musical Guest)
Ultra City Smiths
(The Narrator (voice))
Austin City Limits
(Self)
Saturday Night Live
(Self - Musical Guest)
The Mike Douglas Show
(Self)
Fishing with John
(Self)
The Simpsons
(Lloyd (voice))
Night on Earth
(Original Music Composer)
The Last Castle
(Original Music Composer)
La fine della notte
(Songs)
The Fallen
(Music)
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
(Lyricist)
To Live and to Die in Samarkand
(Sound)
La première journée de Nicolas
(Music)
Tom Waits: Rockpalast '77
(Music)
Bunny
(Music)
Bunny
(Music Producer)
Down by Law
(Songs)
One from the Heart
(Original Music Composer)
Tom Waits for No One
(Music)
The Black Rider
(Music)
Night on Earth
(Songs)
Rita Ritter
(Original Music Composer)
Streetwise
(Music)
Big Time
(Writer)
Őrült és angyal
(Music)