Tom Waits
Thomas Alan Waits is an American singer, songwriter, composer and actor. His lyrics often focus on society's underbelly and are delivered in his trademark deep, gravelly voice. He began in the folk scene during the 1970s, but his music since the 1980s has reflected the influence of such diverse genres as rock, jazz, Delta blues, opera, vaudeville, cabaret, funk and experimental techniques verging on industrial music. Jim Fusilli calls him "A keen, sensitive and sympathetic chronicler of the adrift and downtrodden" who "creates three-dimensional characters who, even in their confusion and despair, are capable of insight and startling points of view." His unique voice was described by 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."
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🎬 Movies
Wild Horse Nine
actor
2026
Licorice Pizza
actor
2022
The Old Man & the Gun
actor
2019
The Dead Don't Die
actor
2019
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
actor
2018
Seven Psychopaths
actor
2012
Twixt
actor
2011
The Book of Eli
actor
2010
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
actor
2010
Wristcutters: A Love Story
actor
2007
The Tiger and the Snow
actor
2006
Domino
actor
2005
Coffee and Cigarettes
actor
2004
Bukowski: Born into This
actor
2003
Mystery Men
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1999
Short Cuts
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1994
Bram Stoker's Dracula
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1993
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
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1992
The Two Jakes
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1991
The Fisher King
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1991
Until the End of the World
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1991
Queens Logic
actor
1991
Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale
actor
1990
Mystery Train
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1989
Cold Feet
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1989
Ironweed
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1988
Big Time
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1988
Candy Mountain
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1988
Down by Law
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1986
The Cotton Club
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1985
Rumble Fish
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1984
The Outsiders
actor
1983
One from the Heart
actor
1982
Paradise Alley
actor
1981