Actor Tom Waits

Tom Waits
Photo of actor Tom Waits
Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic 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." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and as a supporting actor in films, including Down By Law, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Wristcutters: A Love Story. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work on One from the Heart. Lyrically, Waits' songs frequently present atmospheric portrayals of grotesque, often seedy characters and places – although he has also shown a penchant for more conventional ballads. He has a cult following and has influenced subsequent songwriters despite having little radio or music video support. His songs are best-known to the general public in the form of cover versions by more visible artists: "Jersey Girl", performed by Bruce Springsteen, "Ol' 55", performed by the Eagles, and "Downtown Train", performed by Rod Stewart. Although Waits' albums have met with mixed commercial success in his native United States, they have occasionally achieved gold album sales status in other countries. He has been nominated for a number of major music awards and has won Grammy Awards for two albums, Bone Machine and Mule Variations. In 2010, Waits was chosen to be inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011. Waits currently lives in Sonoma County, California with his wife, Kathleen Brennan, and three children. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Waits, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of birth
Pomona, California, USA Pomona, California, USA
Date of birth
7th December 1949
Movies that starred Tom Waits (8 in total)
Licorice Pizza poster

Licorice Pizza [2021]

Rex Blau
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs poster

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs [2018]

Prospector (segment "All Gold Canyon")
The Old Man & the Gun poster

The Old Man & the Gun [2018]

Waller
This Is Sparklehorse poster

This Is Sparklehorse [2016]

Self
The Book of Eli poster

The Book of Eli [2010]

Engineer
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus poster

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus [2009]

Devil
Coffee and Cigarettes poster

Coffee and Cigarettes [2004]

Tom (segment "Somewhere in California")
Bram Stoker's Dracula poster

Bram Stoker's Dracula [1992]

R.M. Renfield
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