Tom Waits
- Active years (films on this site)
- 1986–2021
- Schools and movements
- American Independent CinemaBrazilian CinemaLatin American CinemaNew Hollywood
Directors worked with
Biography
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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Awards and honours
National / local
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2011
7 films on this site
- Down by Law 1986 · Jim Jarmusch · IMDb 7.6 · Cast
- Ironweed 1987 · Héctor Babenco · IMDb 6.7 · Cast
- At Play in the Fields of the Lord 1991 · Héctor Babenco · IMDb 6.8 · Cast
- Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992 · Francis Ford Coppola · IMDb 7.4 · Cast
- Coffee and Cigarettes 2003 · Jim Jarmusch · IMDb 7.0 · Cast
- The Dead Don't Die 2019 · Jim Jarmusch · IMDb 5.4 · Cast
- Licorice Pizza 2021 · Paul Thomas Anderson · IMDb 7.1 · Cast