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Tom Waits

Born 1949 · American singer-songwriter and actor

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."

Tom Waits, in order

  1. 1978 Paradise Alley: acted · directed by Sylvester Stallone
  2. 1979 Tom Waits for No One (short film): acted · directed by John Lamb
  3. 1982 One from the Heart: acted · directed by Francis Ford Coppola
  4. 1983 Rumble Fish: acted · directed by Francis Ford Coppola · critics 78%, audiences 80%
  5. 1983 The Outsiders: acted · directed by Francis Ford Coppola · critics 69%, audiences 82% · streaming on fuboTV, Paramount+, Philo
  6. 1984 The Cotton Club: acted · directed by Francis Ford Coppola · critics 75%, audiences 57% · streaming on Roku Channel, Kanopy, Hoopla
  7. 1986 Down by Law: acted · directed by Jim Jarmusch · critics 84%, audiences 93% · streaming on HBO Max, Fandango at Home (free), Criterion Channel
  8. 1987 Ironweed: acted · directed by Héctor Babenco · critics 58%, audiences 58% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
  9. 1988 Big Time: acted · directed by Chris Blum
  10. 1988 Candy Mountain: acted · directed by Robert Frank and Rudy Wurlitzer
  11. 1989 Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale: acted · directed by Eduardo Guedes
  12. 1989 Cold Feet: acted · directed by Robert Dornhelm
  13. 1989 Mystery Train: acted · directed by Jim Jarmusch
  14. 1990 The Two Jakes: acted · directed by Jack Nicholson
  15. 1991 At Play in the Fields of the Lord: acted · directed by Héctor Babenco
  16. 1991 Fishing with John (TV series): acted
  17. 1991 Queens Logic: acted · directed by Steve Rash
  18. 1991 The Fisher King: acted · directed by Terry Gilliam
  19. 1991 Until the End of the World: acted · directed by Wim Wenders · critics 89%, audiences 89% · streaming on Criterion Channel
  20. 1992 Bram Stoker's Dracula: acted · directed by Francis Ford Coppola
  21. 1993 Coffee and Cigarettes: Somewhere in California (short film): acted · directed by Jim Jarmusch
  22. 1993 Short Cuts: acted · directed by Robert Altman · critics 95%, audiences 88%
  23. 1999 Mystery Men: acted · directed by Kinka Usher · critics 58%, audiences 57% · streaming on Prime Video
  24. 2003 Bukowski: Born into This: acted · directed by John Dullaghan
  25. 2003 Coffee and Cigarettes: acted · directed by Jim Jarmusch · critics 62%, audiences 75% · streaming on HBO Max, Fandango at Home (free), Criterion Channel
  26. 2005 Domino: acted · directed by Tony Scott · critics 17%, audiences 56%
  27. 2005 The Tiger and the Snow: acted · directed by Roberto Benigni · critics 22%, audiences 84%
  28. 2007 Wristcutters: A Love Story: acted · directed by Goran Dukić
  29. 2009 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus: acted · directed by Terry Gilliam
  30. 2010 The Book of Eli: acted · directed by Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes · critics 46%, audiences 65%
  31. 2011 Twixt: acted · directed by Francis Ford Coppola
  32. 2012 Seven Psychopaths: acted · directed by Martin McDonagh
  33. 2015 Keith Richards: Under the Influence: acted · directed by Morgan Neville
  34. 2018 The Ballad of Buster Scruggs: acted · directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen · critics 90%, audiences 78% · streaming on Netflix
  35. 2018 The Old Man & the Gun: acted · directed by David Lowery
  36. 2019 The Dead Don't Die: acted · directed by Jim Jarmusch
  37. 2021 Licorice Pizza: acted · directed by Paul Thomas Anderson · critics 90%, audiences 65% · streaming on Roku Channel, Tubi
  38. 2025 Father Mother Sister Brother: acted · directed by Jim Jarmusch · critics 81%, audiences 47% · streaming on MUBI
  39. 2026 Wild Horse Nine: acted · directed by Martin McDonagh