Tom Waits
Tom Waits is a 75 year old american actor and composer, known for Father Mother Sister Brother (2025), The Absence of Eden (2023) and Untitled Paul Thomas Anderson Project (2021).
Best according to IMDb ratings
Here are the top-rated movies and series featuring Tom Waits, based on user ratings on IMDb.
| # | Title | IMDb |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Dead Don't Die (2019) | 5.5 |
| 2 | The Absence of Eden (2023) | 5.2 |
Tom Waits
- Name: Tom Waits
- Age: 75 years
- Height: 180 cm
- Birth Date: December 7, 1949
- Birth Name: Thomas Alan Waits
- Birth Region: Pomona, California, USA
- Nationality: American
Tom Waits's filmography
Actor
Tom is listed as actor for forty two titles.
Father Mother Sister Brother
Father
Movie, 2025
- Director: Jim Jarmusch
- Main cast: Adam Driver, Charlotte Rampling, Mayim Bialik, Tom Waits
- Music: Jim Jarmusch
The Absence of Eden
Hunley
Movie, 2023
- Director: Marco Perego
- Main cast: Zoë Saldaña, Adria Arjona, Chris Coy, Garrett Hedlund
- Music: Oliver Coates
Untitled Paul Thomas Anderson Project
Movie, 2021
- Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
- Main cast: Sean Penn, Cooper Hoffman, Tom Waits, Alana Haim
- Music: Jonny Greenwood
Motherless Brooklyn
News Stand Owner
Movie, 2019
- Director: Edward Norton
- Main cast: Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Willem Dafoe
- Music: Daniel Pemberton
The Dead Don't Die
Hermit Bob
Movie, 2019
- Director: Jim Jarmusch
- Main cast: Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Steve Buscemi
- Music: Carter Logan
The Old Man & the Gun
Waller
Movie, 2019
- Director: David Lowery
- Main cast: Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek
- Music: Daniel Hart
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Prospector (segment "All Gold Canyon")
Movie, 2018
- Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
- Main cast: Liam Neeson, Zoë Kazan, James Franco, Tim Blake Nelson, Danny McCarthy
- Music: Carter Burwell
Seven Psychopaths
Zachariah Rigby
Movie, 2012
- Director: Martin McDonagh
- Main cast: Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, Colin Farrell, Christopher Walken
- Music: Carter Burwell
A Brief History of John Baldessari
Narrator
Movie, 2012
- Director: Ariel Schulman, Henry Joost
- Main cast: Tom Waits, John Baldessari
The Laughing Heart
Narrator
Movie, 2012
- Main cast: Tom Waits
B'Twixt Now and Sunrise
Narrator
Movie, 2011
- Director: Francis Ford Coppola
- Main cast: Elle Fanning, Val Kilmer, Bruce Dern, Ben Chaplin
- Music: Osvaldo Golijov, Dan Deacon
Book of Eli, The (2010)
Engineer
Movie, 2010
- Director: Allen Hughes, Albert Hughes
- Main cast: Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson, Denzel Washington
- Music: Atticus Ross, Leopold Ross
Doctor Parnassus
Devil
Movie, 2009
- Director: Terry Gilliam
- Main cast: Andrew Garfield, Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer
- Music: Jeff Danna, Mychael Danna
Wristcutters: A Love Story
Kneller
Movie, 2006
- Director: Goran Dukić
- Main cast: Shea Whigham, Shannyn Sossamon, Leslie Bibb, Tom Waits
Domino Live Fast Die Young
The Wanderer
Movie, 2005
- Director: Tony Scott
- Main cast: Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramírez, Delroy Lindo
- Music: Harry Gregson-Williams
The Tiger and the Snow
/ Sè stesso
Movie, 2005
- Director: Roberto Benigni
- Main cast: Jean Reno, Emilia Fox, Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi
- Music: Nicola Piovani
Bukowski: Born into This
Movie, 2003
- Main cast: Sean Penn, Harry Dean Stanton, Charles Bukowski
Mystery Men
Doc Heller
Movie, 1999
- Director: Kinka Usher
- Main cast: William H. Macy, Hank Azaria, Janeane Garofalo, Kel Mitchell
- Music: Stephen Warbeck
Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight
The Narrator
Movie, 1997
- Main cast: Guy Maddin, Tom Waits, Pascale Bussières
Coffee and Cigarettes III
Tom
Movie, 1993
- Director: Jim Jarmusch
- Main cast: Iggy Pop, Tom Waits
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
Movie, 1993
- Director: John Dorr, Mike Kaplan
- Main cast: Robert Altman, Tim Robbins, Fred Ward
Bram Stokers Dracula
R.M. Renfield
Movie, 1992
- Director: Francis Ford Coppola
- Main cast: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves
- Music: Wojciech Kilar
Until the End of the World
Singer in Bar
Movie, 1991
- Director: Wim Wenders
- Main cast: Sam Neill, William Hurt, Max von Sydow, Solveig Dommartin
- Music: Graeme Revell
The Fisher King
Disabled Vet
Movie, 1991
- Director: Terry Gilliam
- Main cast: Jeff Bridges, Robin Williams, Amanda Plummer, Mercedes Ruehl
- Music: George Fenton
At Play In the Fields of the Lord
Wolf
Movie, 1991
- Director: Hector Babenco
- Main cast: Daryl Hannah, John Lithgow, Tom Berenger, Aidan Quinn
- Music: Zbigniew Preisner
Queens Logic
Monte
Movie, 1991
- Director: Steve Rash
- Main cast: Kevin Bacon, John Malkovich, Jamie Lee Curtis, Linda Fiorentino
Chinatown 2, The Two Jakes
Plainclothes Policeman
Movie, 1990
- Director: Jack Nicholson
- Main cast: Madeleine Stowe, Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Meg Tilly
- Music: Van Dyke Parks
One Night in Memphis
Radio DJ
Movie, 1989
- Director: Jim Jarmusch
- Main cast: Masatoshi Nagase, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Youki Kudoh, Cinqué Lee
- Music: John Lurie
Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale
Silva
Movie, 1989
- Director: Ann Guedes, Eduardo Guedes
- Main cast: Tom Waits, Júlia Britton, Isabel Ruth
Black and White Night 30
Movie, 1988
- Main cast: T Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello, Jackson Browne, Roy Orbison
Candy Mountain
Al Silk
Movie, 1987
- Director: Rudy Wurlitzer
- Main cast: Kevin J. O'Connor, Tom Waits, Bulle Ogier, Harris Yulin
- Music: David Johansen, Leon Redbone
Ironweed
Rudy
Movie, 1987
- Director: Hector Babenco
- Main cast: Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Michael O'Keefe, Carroll Baker
Down By Law
Zack
Movie, 1986
- Director: Jim Jarmusch
- Main cast: Ellen Barkin, Tom Waits, Roberto Benigni, John Lurie
- Music: John Lurie
The Stone Boy
Petrified man at carnival
Movie, 1984
- Director: Christopher Cain
- Main cast: Glenn Close, Robert Duvall, Jason Presson
- Music: James Horner
The Outsiders: The Complete Novel
Buck Merrill
Movie, 1983
- Director: Francis Ford Coppola
- Main cast: Matt Dillon, C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze
- Music: Carmine Coppola
Rumblefish
Benny
Movie, 1983
- Director: Francis Ford Coppola
- Main cast: Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane, Dennis Hopper
- Music: Stewart Copeland
Poetry in Motion
Movie, 1982
- Main cast: Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, John Cage
The Making of 'One from the Heart'
Movie, 1982
- Main cast: Francis Ford Coppola, Nastassja Kinski, Raul Julia
Wolfen
Drunken Bar Owner
Movie, 1981
- Director: Michael Wadleigh
- Main cast: Edward James Olmos, Albert Finney, Gregory Hines, Diane Venora
- Music: James Horner
One from the Heart: Reprise
Trumpet player
Movie, 1981
- Director: Francis Ford Coppola
- Main cast: Teri Garr, Nastassja Kinski, Raul Julia, Frederic Forrest
- Music: Tom Waits, Crystal Gayle
Tom Waits for No One
Movie, 1979
- Main cast: Tom Waits, Donna Gordon
- Music: Tom Waits
Tom Waits: A Day in Vienna
Movie, 1978
- Director: Rudi Dolezal, Hannes Rossacher
- Main cast: Tom Waits
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Composer
Tom is listed as composer for seven titles.
Untitled Rod lurie Projekt
Movie, 2001
- Director: Rod Lurie
- Main cast: Robert Redford, Mark Ruffalo, James Gandolfini
- Music: Jerry Goldsmith, Tom Waits
Night On Earth
Movie, 1991
- Director: Jim Jarmusch
- Main cast: Winona Ryder, Giancarlo Esposito, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gena Rowlands
- Music: Tom Waits
La première journée de Nicolas
Movie, 1984
- Director: Manuel Poirier
- Music: Tom Waits
Rita Ritter
Movie, 1984
- Director: Herbert Achternbusch
- Main cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Annamirl Bierbichler, Christiane Cohendy, Barbara Valentin
- Music: Tom Waits
Streetwise
Movie, 1984
- Music: Tom Waits
One from the Heart: Reprise
Movie, 1981
- Director: Francis Ford Coppola
- Main cast: Teri Garr, Nastassja Kinski, Raul Julia, Frederic Forrest
- Music: Tom Waits, Crystal Gayle
Tom Waits for No One
Movie, 1979
- Main cast: Tom Waits, Donna Gordon
- Music: Tom Waits
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