Tom Waits
Biography
Thomas Alan Waits 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...Read More
Known For
Acting Career
- 2025
Father Mother Sister Brother
As: Father
- 2024
The Absence of Eden
As: Hunley
- 2021
Licorice Pizza
As: Rex Blau
- 2021
Ultra City Smiths
As: The Narrator (voice)
- 2019
Motherless Brooklyn
As: News Stand Owner (uncredited)
- 2019
The Dead Don't Die
As: Hermit Bob
- 2018
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
As: Prospector (segment "All Gold Canyon")
- 2018
The Old Man & the Gun
As: Waller
- 2018
The Moon’s Milk
As: Captain Millipede (voice)
- 2012
Seven Psychopaths
As: Zachariah Rigby
- 2012
A Brief History of John Baldessari
As: Narrator
- 2011
Twixt
As: Narrator (voice)
- 2011
The Monster of Nix
As: Virgil (Voice)
- 2010
The Book of Eli
As: Engineer
- 2009
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
As: Devil
- 2007
Wristcutters: A Love Story
As: Kneller
- 2005
Domino
As: Wanderer
- 2004
Coffee and Cigarettes
As: Tom (segment "Somewhere in California")
- 1999
Mystery Men
As: Doc Heller
- 1997
Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight
As: Narrator (voice)
- 1997
Coffee and Cigarettes III
As: Tom
- 1993
Short Cuts
As: Earl Piggot
- 1992
Bram Stoker's Dracula
As: R.M. Renfield
- 1991
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
As: Wolf
- 1991
The Fisher King
As: Disabled Vet (uncredited)
- 1991
Until the End of the World
As: Singer in Bar
- 1991
Queens Logic
As: Monte
- 1990
The Two Jakes
As: Plainclothes Policeman (uncredited)
- 1989
The Simpsons
As: Lloyd (voice)
- 1989
Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale
As: Silva
- 1989
Mystery Train
As: Radio DJ (voice)
- 1989
Cold Feet
As: Kenny
- 1988
Candy Mountain
As: Al Silk
- 1988
Greasy Lake
As: Narrator
- 1987
Ironweed
As: Rudy
- 1986
Down by Law
As: Zack
- 1984
The Cotton Club
As: Irving Stark
- 1984
The Stone Boy
As: Petrified man at carnival (uncredited)
- 1983
Rumble Fish
As: Benny
- 1983
The Outsiders
As: Buck Merrill
- 1982
One from the Heart
As: Trumpet player (uncredited)
- 1981
Wolfen
As: Drunken Bar Owner (uncredited)
- 1978
Paradise Alley
As: Mumbles