Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
12/7/1949
Place of Birth
Pomona, California, USA
Also Known As
Thomas Alan Waits汤姆·威兹
Tom Waits
Biography
Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American musician, composer, songwriter and actor. His lyrics often focus on the underbelly of society and are delivered in his trademark deep, gravelly voice. He worked primarily in jazz during the 1970s, but his music since the 1980s has reflected greater influence from blues, rock, vaudeville, and experimental genres.
Waits was born and raised in a middle-class family in Whittier, California. Inspired by the work of Bob Dylan and the Beat Generation, he began singing on the San Diego folk music circuit as a young boy. He relocated to Los Ange...
Known For
Bram Stoker's Dracula
as R.M. Renfield
The Book of Eli
as Engineer
Mystery Men
as Doc Heller
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
as Prospector (segment "All Gold Canyon")
The Outsiders
as Buck Merrill
Paradise Alley
as Mumbles
Twixt
as Narrator (voice)
Short Cuts
as Earl Piggot
Wildwood
as (voice)
Queens Logic
as Monte
The Dead Don't Die
as Hermit Bob
Mystery Train
as Radio DJ (voice)
Father Mother Sister Brother
as Father
Seven Psychopaths
as Zachariah Rigby
Licorice Pizza
as Rex Blau
The Monster of Nix
as Virgil (Voice)
Wolfen
as Drunken Bar Owner (uncredited)
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
as Wolf
Rumble Fish
as Benny
Candy Mountain
as Al Silk