Tom Waits

Tom Waits (born Thomas Alan Waits on December 7, 1949 in Pomona, California) is an American singer-songwriter, composer and actor.

Filmography

• 1978 Movie debut as 'Mumbles' in Paradise Alley.
• 1980 Worked with Francis Ford Coppola on the soundtrack to One From The Heart.
• 1982 Soundtrack of One From The Heart. Nominated for an Academy Award for best original score.
• Played petrified man in carnival in The Stone Boy.
• 1983 Played Buck Merrill in The Outsiders.
• Played Bennie the pool hall owner in Rumble Fish.
• 1984 Played Irving Stark in The Cotton Club.
• Soundtrack to Streetwise a documentary about street kids on Pike St. in Seattle.
• 1986 Starred as Zack in Down by Law.
• 1987 Played Rudy The Kraut in Ironweed.
• Played Al Silk in Candy Mountain.
• 1989 Played the 'Punch & Judy Man' in '.
• Starred as Kenny the Hitman in Cold Feet.
• Voice of the radio DJ in Mystery Train. Composer on Sea of Love
• 1990 Played a plainclothes policeman in The Two Jakes.
• 1991 Played Wolf in At Play in the Fields of the Lord.
• Played a disabled Veteran beggar in The Fisher King.
• Wrote the score of Night on Earth (With Kathleen Brennan).
• Played Monte in Queens Logic.
• 1992 Composer (With Kathleen Brennan) on American Heart.
• Played R.M. Renfield in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
• Played Earl Piggott in Short Cuts.
• Appeared as himself in the IFC TV series Fishing with John.
• 1996 Composer on soundtrack of Dead Man Walking.
• Composer on soundtrack of The End of Violence.
• 'Cold Cold Ground' and 'Temptation' appeared on the soundtrack to Leolo.
• 1999 Mystery Men -- played an inventor who specialized in non-lethal weapons.
• 2001 Composer on soundtrack of Big Bad Love.
• 2003 Appeared in conversation with Iggy Pop in ' (filmed in 1993).
• 2004 Composer (with Kathleen Brennan) on soundtrack of Shrek 2. Also appears, in a shared role with Nick Cave, as an animated piano-playing pirate singing "A Little Drop Of Poison".