Tom Waits
Acting • AGE 76
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...
Acting
Ray Gunn
Eyera (voice)
2026
Wild Horse Nine
2026
Wildwood
(voice)
2026
Father Mother Sister Brother
Father
2025
Roofman
Thanks
2025
The Last Ride
Self
2025
Human Nature in Eleven Parts
Narrator "Laughing Heart" (archive footage)
2025
Star.Wav
The Caller
2024
The Absence of Eden
Hunley
2024
Tom Waits: Glitter and Doom Concert Experience
Self
2024
This Is Sparklehorse
Self
2022
Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious
Self
2022
Licorice Pizza
Rex Blau
2021
Ultra City Smiths
The Narrator (voice)
2021
Motherless Brooklyn
News Stand Owner (uncredited)
2019
The Dead Don't Die
Hermit Bob
2019
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Prospector (segment "All Gold Canyon")
2018
The Old Man & the Gun
Waller
2018
The Moon’s Milk
Captain Millipede (voice)
2018
Roy Orbison: Black and White Night 30
Self
2017
Tom Waits: Tales from a Cracked Jukebox
Self
2017
Keith Richards: Under the Influence
Self
2015
Seven Psychopaths
Zachariah Rigby
2012
A Brief History of John Baldessari
Narrator
2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
2012
Twixt
Narrator (voice)
2011
The Monster of Nix
Virgil (Voice)
2011
Miral
Songs
2010
The Book of Eli
Engineer
2010
The Fallen
Music
2010
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Devil
2009
Tom Waits: Romeo Bleeding - Live from Austin
Self
2009
One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur
Self
2008
Wristcutters: A Love Story
Kneller
2007
To Live and to Die in Samarkand
Sound
2007
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Tom Waits - Burma Shave [Live Concert]
Self
2006
The Tiger and the Snow
Self / Sè stesso
2005
Domino
Wanderer
2005
Coffee and Cigarettes
Tom (segment "Somewhere in California")
2004
Bukowski: Born Into This
Self
2003
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
Lyricist
2001
Mystery Men
Doc Heller
1999
Bunny
Music
1998
Tom Waits - Dead Man Walking, Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Self
1998
Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight
Narrator (voice)
1997
Coffee and Cigarettes III
Tom
1997
The Daily Show
Self
1996
Short Cuts
Earl Piggot
1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Musical Guest
1993
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
Self
1993
Bram Stoker's Dracula
R.M. Renfield
1992
Night on Earth
Original Music Composer
1991
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Wolf
1991
Fishing with John
Self
1991
The Fisher King
Disabled Vet (uncredited)
1991
Until the End of the World
Singer in Bar
1991
Queens Logic
Monte
1991
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
Self
1990
The Two Jakes
Plainclothes Policeman (uncredited)
1990
The Black Rider
Original Music Composer
1990
The Black Rider
Himself
1990
The Simpsons
Lloyd (voice)
1989
Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale
Silva
1989
La fine della notte
Songs
1989
Mystery Train
Radio DJ (voice)
1989
Cold Feet
Kenny
1989
Tom Waits: Big Time
Self
1988
Candy Mountain
Al Silk
1988
Greasy Lake
Narrator
1988
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
Self - Organ/Guitar
1988
Ironweed
Rudy
1987
Tom Waits - Live at Premio Tenco in Sanremo Italy
Himself
1986
Down by Law
Zack
1986
Tom Waits - Live On The Tube
Self
1985
The Cotton Club
Irving Stark
1984
Streetwise
Music
1984
The Stone Boy
Petrified man at carnival (uncredited)
1984
Rita Ritter
Original Music Composer
1984
La première journée de Nicolas
Music
1984
Rumble Fish
Benny
1983
The Outsiders
Buck Merrill
1983
Poetry in Motion
Self
1982
The Making of 'One from the Heart'
Self
1982
One from the Heart
Trumpet player (uncredited)
1982
Wolfen
Drunken Bar Owner (uncredited)
1981
Tom Waits at Theatre le Palace
Self
1980
Tom Waits: No Visitors After Midnight
Self
1979
Paradise Alley
Mumbles
1978
Saturday Night Live
Self - Musical Guest
1975
Austin City Limits
Self
1975
Rockpalast
1974
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961