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
Mystery Men
as Doc Heller
The Book of Eli
as Engineer
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
as Prospector (segment "All Gold Canyon")
Cold Feet
as Kenny
Bram Stoker's Dracula
as R.M. Renfield
Wildwood
as (voice)
The Outsiders
as Buck Merrill
The Tiger and the Snow
as Self / Sè stesso
Wolfen
as Drunken Bar Owner (uncredited)
Mystery Train
as Radio DJ (voice)
Big Time
as Self
Candy Mountain
as Al Silk
The Dead Don't Die
as Hermit Bob
The Cotton Club
as Irving Stark
Ironweed
as Rudy
The Absence of Eden
as Hunley
Paradise Alley
as Mumbles
Queens Logic
as Monte
The Fisher King
as Disabled Vet (uncredited)
Father Mother Sister Brother
as Father