Tom Waits Net Worth
Tom Waits Net Worth is
$25 Million
Tom Waits Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic 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... | Full Name | Tom Waits |
| Net Worth | $25 Million |
| Date Of Birth | December 7, 1949 |
| Place Of Birth | Pomona, California, United States |
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.803 m) |
| Profession | Singer-songwriter, Musician, Actor, Composer, Film Score Composer, Voice Actor |
| Education | Hilltop High School |
| Nationality | United States of America |
| Spouse | Kathleen Brennan (m. 1980) |
| Children | Kellesimone Waits, Casey Xavier Waits, Sullivan Waits |
| Parents | Alma Fern McMurray, Jesse Frank Waits |
| Nicknames | Thomas Alan Waits , Ton Waits , Tom Waites , Tom , Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits |
| Awards | Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album, Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album, Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis, Tom Traubert's Blues, Bad as Me |
| Nominations | Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance, Academy Award for Best Original Musical, Grammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance, Brit Award for International Male Solo Artist, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music, David di Donatello for Best Original Song, Christmas Card From a Hooke... |
| Movies | Down by Law, Seven Psychopaths |
| Star Sign | Sagittarius |
| # | Trademark |
|---|---|
| 1 | Raspy, gravelly singing voice |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | "Blind Love" is one of my first country songs. I like Merle Haggard. Most of those other guys, though, sound like they're all just drinking tea and watching their waist and talking to their accountant. This one I think subscribes to some of that roadhouse feel. |
| 2 | He is one of the standards by which I measure all singers. (On Harry Belafonte) |
| 3 | I love Burroughs (William S. Burroughs). He's like a metal desk. He's like a still, and everything that comes out of him is already whiskey. |
| 4 | The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable. |
| 5 | I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox. |
| 6 | Commercials are an unnatural use of my work ... it's like having a cow's udder sewn to the side of my face. Painful and humiliating. |
| 7 | All hardware items must be admired for their sonic properties: pitchforks, egg beaters, crowbars, fireplace grates, shovels, anvils, rebars [the structural reinforcement rods used in poured concrete], trash cans - the list goes on and on and they're all waiting to be played. |
| 8 | If Michael Jackson wants to work for Pepsi, why doesn't he just get himself a suit and an office in their headquarters and be done with it? |
| 9 | I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas. |
| 10 | I like to walk out of a restaurant with enough gas to open a Mobil station. |
| 11 | I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy. |
| 12 | No, I don't have a drinking problem except when I can't get a drink. |
| 13 | Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends. |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | Before she was an established actress Winona Ryder once babysat for Tom's children. |
| 2 | Lives in California. [August 2001] |
| 3 | Member of the "Sons of Lee Marvin". Along with Jim Jarmusch (Founder). A private and clandestine organisation consisting of invited members whom could plausibly be Lee Marvin's son. |
| 4 | Beyond the aforementioned Bob Dylan and Captain Beefheart, Waits is a big fan of Frank Sinatra, Thelonious Monk, the Rolling Stones, Gavin Bryars, the Lounge Lizards, The Pogues, Leonard Cohen, Little Richard, James Brown, Frank Zappa, Elvis Costello, Paul Simon and Prince. His number one favorite album of all time "In the Wee Small Hours" by Sinatra. |
| 5 | His father, Frank, was a teacher at the largest high school in Los Angeles, Belmont High School. |
| 6 | Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on March 14, 2011. The other inductees were Darlene Love, Neil Diamond, Alice Cooper, Leon Russell and Dr. John. |
| 7 | Member of the "Sons of Lee Marvin". Along with Jim Jarmusch (Founder). A private and humorous group consisting of invited members whom could plausibly be Lee Marvin's son. |
| 8 | Lives in Sonoma County, California. |
| 9 | His role in Domino (2006) is immediately preceded by his own song "Jesus Gonna Be Here," from his 1992 album "Bone Machine". |
| 10 | All of his recent original songs are credited as being written by both Waits and his wife Kathleen Brennan, although some of them are written solely by Waits. |
| 11 | His album "Rain Dogs" is mentioned in the script for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004). |
| 12 | Originally slated to play Lefty, one of the singing cowboys in A Prairie Home Companion (2006). |
| 13 | Being a family friend of the Coppolas, he performed at the wedding of Sofia Coppola and Spike Jonze. |
| 14 | Bears such a striking resemblance to actor Ron Perlman that he was once credited under the name "Ron Perlman" on a movie poster. |
| 15 | A big Baz Luhrmann fan. |
| 16 | Is a good friend of Keith Richards who makes frequent appearances as a guitarist on his records. |
| 17 | He has said that Bob Dylan is his favorite songwriter and his main influence for initially getting into music. He contributes his shift to more experimental, eccentric music starting with the album "Swordfishtrombones" to the influence of Don Van Vliet. Ironically, Dylan's more recent work has been said to be comparable to Waits' music. |
| 18 | His maternal grandmother, Olga Regina Olsen, was the daughter of Norwegian parents (her family was from Oslo). Tom's other ancestry is English, Scottish, Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), German, Swiss-German, and Welsh. |
| 19 | The photo on the cover of his album "Rain Dogs" includes a man who many believe to be him. It was one of a series of photos taken at the Cafe Lehmitz in Hamburg by the Swedish photographer Anders Petersen. Waits reportedly saw the photo at an exhibition, was taken by the similarity of him and the man in the photo, and asked permission from the photographer to use it as an album cover. |
| 20 | He converted a 4 cubic yard metal box (intended as a debris dumpster) into a musical instrument called a "Strata Dumpster" (aka "Dumpstalele"). He cut a 2 foot hole into one side, and streched seven piano strings across it, fastening them with two welded bridges. The strings can be plucked, strummed or bowed. He describes the sound as "trainlike and huge, like trash day with a purpose." |
| 21 | Owns obscure and custom made instruments such as a Chamberlin Music Master 600 (an analog synthesizer manufactured in the 1960s) and a photon clarinet ("[It] sounds like a keyboard lobster dying on a campfire."). |
| 22 | Shops at hardware stores for items to be used as percussion instruments. |
| 23 | Uses a large collection of electric megaphones to create unusual tonal effects on his recordings. One of his favorites is a 1944 vintage issued by the US Navy Bureau of Ships, manufactured by Guided Radio Corp. of New York. |
| 24 | Children: Kellesimone (b. 1983), Casey Xavier (b. 1985), Sullivan (b. 1993). |
| 25 | Frito-Lay used an unauthorized sample of his song "Step Right Up" in one of their commercials. He successfully sued for an undisclosed amount of money. Frito-Lay unsuccessfully counter-sued. |
| 26 | Close friends with the Coppola family including Nicolas Cage; often cast in Francis Ford Coppola movies. |
| 27 | Close friend of Chuck E. Weiss, a fellow L.A. scenester and co-founder of The Viper Room with Johnny Depp, and frequently mentions him in lyrics and liner notes on his records. |
Soundtrack
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tommys Hollywood Report | 1988 | TV Movie performer: "Swordfishtrombone" - uncredited / writer: "Swordfishtrombone" - uncredited | |
| Macken | 1986 | TV Series music - 1 episode | |
| Down by Law | 1986 | performer: "Jockey Full of Bourbon", "Tango Till They're Sore", "Crying" / writer: "Jockey Full of Bourbon", "Tango Till They're Sore" | |
| Edge of Darkness | 1985 | TV Mini-Series "Sixteen Shells from a Thirty-Ought Six" | |
| The Atlanta Child Murders | TV Mini-Series lyrics - 2 episodes, 1985 music - 2 episodes, 1985 | ||
| Fame | 1984 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Streetwise | 1984 | Documentary performer: "Take Care Of All My Children", "Rat's Theme" / writer: "Take Care Of All My Children", "Rat's Theme" | |
| First Name: Carmen | 1983 | "Ruby's Arms" | |
| The Uppercrust | 1982 | performer: "On The Nickel" / writer: "On The Nickel" | |
| One from the Heart | 1981 | performer: "Tom's Piano Intro", "Once Upon A Town", "The Wages Of Love", "Picking Up After You", "Broken Bicycles", "I Beg Your Pardon", "Little Boy Blue", "The Tango", "You Can't Unring A Bell", "Take Me Home", "One From The Heart" / writer: "Tom's Piano Intro", "It's Raining Cuban Cigars" uncredited, "Once Upon A Town", "The Wages Of Love", "Is There Any Way Out Of This Dream?", "Picking Up After You", "Old Boyfriends", "Broken Bicycles", "I Beg Your Pardon", "Little Boy Blue", "The Tango", "C | |
| Wolfen | 1981 | performer: "Jitterbug Boy" / writer: "Jitterbug Boy" | |
| Divine Madness | 1980 | Documentary writer: "Shiver Me Timbers", "Rainbow Sleeves" | |
| On the Nickel | 1980 | "On The Nickel" | |
| Bad Timing | 1980 | performer: "An Invitation To The Blues" / writer: "An Invitation To The Blues" | |
| Tom Waits for No One | 1979 | Short performer: "The One That Got Away" / writer: "The One That Got Away" | |
| Tom Waits: A Day in Vienna | 1978 | TV Movie documentary performer: "Jitterbug Boy" uncredited, "A Sweet Little Bullet from a Pretty Blue Gun" uncredited, "Shake, Rattle and Roll" uncredited, "Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis" uncredited, "Closing Time" | |
| Paradise Alley | 1978 | performer: " Meet Me in Paradise Alley", "Annie's Back in Town" / writer: " Meet Me in Paradise Alley", "Annie's Back in Town" | |
| Saturday Night Live | TV Series performer - 1 episode, 1977 writer - 1 episode, 1977 | ||
| The Bette Midler Show | 1976 | TV Special writer: "Shiver Me Timbers" - uncredited | |
| The X-Files | TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2016 writer - 1 episode, 2016 | ||
| Dolezal Backstage | TV Series documentary performer - 2 episodes, 2015 writer - 1 episode, 2015 | ||
| Dead Metaphors | 2014 | Short performer: "Chocolate Jesus", "Anywhere I Lay My Head" / writer: "Chocolate Jesus", "Anywhere I Lay My Head" | |
| Constantine | 2014 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Gotham | 2014 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Guapas | 2014 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Lifers | 2014 | Short performer: "Chicago" / writer: "Chicago" | |
| True Blood | TV Series writer - 2 episodes, 2008 - 2014 performer - 1 episode, 2014 | ||
| How I Met Your Mother | 2008-2014 | TV Series writer - 2 episodes | |
| A Most Wanted Man | 2014 | performer: "Hoist That Rag" / writer: "Hoist That Rag" | |
| The Walking Dead | TV Series writer - 2 episodes, 2013 performer - 1 episode, 2013 | ||
| Peaky Blinders | TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2013 writer - 1 episode, 2013 | ||
| The Armstrong Lie | 2013 | Documentary performer: "Long Way Home" / writer: "Long Way Home" | |
| Moonshine | 2013 | Short performer: "Way down in the hole" / writer: "Way down in the hole" | |
| Levenslied | 2013 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| House of Lies | TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2013 writer - 1 episode, 2013 | ||
| Dead in 5 Heartbeats | 2013 | writer: "Way Down In A Hole" | |
| Parenthood | TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2013 writer - 1 episode, 2013 | ||
| Universum | 2012 | TV Series documentary performer - 1 episode | |
| Bank Roll | 2012 | performer: "$29.00" / writer: "$29.00" | |
| Duro de domar | 2012 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Bunheads | TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2012 writer - 1 episode, 2012 | ||
| Harry's Law | TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2012 writer - 1 episode, 2012 | ||
| No me la puc treure del cap | TV Series performer - 2 episodes, 2010 - 2012 writer - 1 episode, 2010 | ||
| 2 Coelhos | 2012 | performer: "I'm Still Here" | |
| 13 Steps | 2012 | Video writer: "Anywhere I Lay My Head," | |
| RocKwiz | 2011 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Late Show with David Letterman | TV Series writer - 3 episodes, 1996 - 2011 performer - 1 episode, 2006 | ||
| Jedermann Remixed | 2011 | TV Movie writer: "Way Down in the Hole" | |
| Breakfast with Bukowski | 2011 | Short performer: "Hoist That Rag" | |
| I'm Still Here | 2010/I | writer: "All The World Is Green" | |
| Miral | 2010 | performer: "Down There By The Train", "Lost In The Harbour" / writer: "Down There By The Train", "Lost In The Harbour" | |
| The Sons of Tennessee Williams | 2010 | Documentary performer: "Tootie Ma Is a Big Fine Thing" | |
| Lights Out | 2010 | performer: "Somewhere" from "West Side Story", 1957 | |
| Himmelwärts | 2010 | TV Movie documentary performer: "Diamond In Your Mind" - uncredited | |
| Numb3rs | 2009 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Fumô chitai | 2009 | TV Series performer: "Tom Traubert's Blues" | |
| Romaine par moins 30 | 2009 | performer: "Russian Dance" / writer: "Russian Dance" | |
| Big River Man | 2009 | Documentary performer: "All The World Is Green" / writer: "All The World Is Green" | |
| Kosketuksessa | 2008 | TV Series documentary writer - 1 episode | |
| The Cobrasnake | 2008 | Short "Innocent When You Dream 78" | |
| American Carnival | 2008 | Documentary writer: "I Don't Wanna Grow Up", "Rain Dogs" | |
| Banda sonora | TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2008 writer - 1 episode, 2008 | ||
| NCIS | 2008 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Jef | 2008 | Short performer: "Alice" / writer: "Alice" | |
| Idiots and Angels | 2008 | performer: "Kommienezuspadt", "Flowers Grave" / writer: "Kommienezuspadt", "Flowers Grave" | |
| Beautiful Losers | 2008 | Documentary writer: "I Don't Want to Grow Up" | |
| The Wire | TV Series writer - 45 episodes, 2002 - 2008 performer - 13 episodes, 2003 - 2006 | ||
| Medicine for Melancholy | 2008 | performer: "Lie To Me" / writer: "Lie To Me" | |
| Parashat Ha-Shavua | TV Series performer - 2 episodes, 2008 writer - 2 episodes, 2008 | ||
| Live from Austin Tx: Norah Jones | 2008 | Video documentary writer: "Long Way Home" | |
| The Last International Playboy | 2008 | writer: "I don't want to grow up" | |
| Mama's Boy | 2007 | writer: "I Don't Want to Grow Up" | |
| So You Think You Can Dance | 2007 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | 2007 | as T. Waits, "All The World Is Green", "Green Grass" / performer: "All The World Is Green", "Green Grass" | |
| ER | 2007 | TV Series 1 episode | |
| Life on Mars | TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2007 writer - 1 episode, 2007 | ||
| Absolute Wilson | 2006 | Documentary writer: "Musical excerpts from 'The Black Rider'" | |
| At the Hotel | 2006 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Wristcutters: A Love Story | 2006 | performer: "Dead and Lovely" / writer: "Dead and Lovely" | |
| The Ground Truth | 2006 | Documentary performer: "Day After Tomorrow" / writer: "Day After Tomorrow" | |
| Jarhead | 2005 | performer: "Soldier's Things" / writer: "Soldier's Things" | |
| La tigre e la neve | 2005 | performer: "You Can Never Hold Back Spring" / writer: "You Can Never Hold Back Spring" | |
| Daltry Calhoun | 2005 | writer: "Looks Like I'm Up Sh*t Creek Again" | |
| Domino | 2005 | performer: "Cold Cold Ground", "Jesus Gonna Be Here" / writer: "Cold Cold Ground", "Jesus Gonna Be Here" | |
| Embedded | 2005 | Video performer: "Day After Tomorrow" / writer: "Day After Tomorrow" | |
| A Little Trip to Heaven | 2005 | writer: "A Little Trip To Heaven" | |
| The Secret Life of Words | 2005 | performer: "All the World Is Green" / writer: "All the World Is Green" | |
| Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room | 2005 | Documentary performer: "What's He Building in There?", "Straight to the Top Vegas", "Temptation", "God's Away on Business" / writer: "What's He Building in There?", "Straight to the Top Vegas", "Temptation", "God's Away on Business" | |
| East of Sunset | 2005 | writer: "Lonely", "Poncho's Lament", "I Hope that I Don't Fall in Love with You", "Old Shoes", "Ruby's Arms", "Downtown", "Heart Attack and Vine", "Please Call Me, Baby", "You Can't Unring a Bell", "New Coat of Paint", "Better Off Without a Wife", "Cinny's Waltz", "Broken Bicycles" | |
| Robots | 2005 | performer: "UNDERGROUND" / writer: "UNDERGROUND" | |
| Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live | 2005 | TV Special documentary writer: "Martha" | |
| Independent Lens | TV Series documentary performer - 1 episode, 2005 writer - 1 episode, 2005 | ||
| Around the Bend | 2004 | writer: "Old Shoes" | |
| Ramones Raw | 2004 | Documentary writer: "I Don't Want to Grow Up" - as Tom Waites | |
| Yes | 2004/I | writer: "FAWN" | |
| Shrek 2 | 2004 | performer: "Little Drop of Poison" 1997 / writer: "Little Drop of Poison" 1997 | |
| Hellboy | 2004 | performer: "Heart Attack and Vine" / writer: "Heart Attack and Vine" | |
| The Prince and Me | 2004 | "I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love with You" | |
| Jersey Girl | 2004 | writer: "Jersey Girl" | |
| In the Realms of the Unreal | 2004 | Documentary writer: "Flash Pan Hunter Intro", "Innocent When You Dream 78" | |
| Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche | 2004 | TV Movie documentary performer: "Temptation" / writer: "Temptation" | |
| Noviembre | 2003 | performer: "Tom Traubert's Blues Four Sheets To The Wind In Copenhagen" / writer: "Tom Traubert's Blues Four Sheets To The Wind In Copenhagen" | |
| Coffee and Cigarettes | 2003 | performer: "Saw Sage" / writer: "Saw Sage" - as T. Waits | |
| The Big Empty | 2003 | writer: "WALK AWAY" | |
| The United States of Leland | 2003 | writer: "Diamond in Your Mind" | |
| Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 | 2002 | Video Game writer: "Oodles of O's" | |
| Gilmore Girls | TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2002 writer - 1 episode, 2002 | ||
| Los lunes al sol | 2002 | performer: "On the Otherside of the World" / writer: "On the Otherside of the World" | |
| Project: Valkyrie | 2002 | writer: "A Soldier's Things" | |
| Night at the Golden Eagle | 2001 | performer: "Swordfishtrombone" / writer: "Swordfishtrombone" | |
| The Last Castle | 2001 | writer: "Get Behind the Mule" | |
| Big Bad Love | 2001 | performer: "Long Way Home", "Jayne's Blue Wish" | |
| Proximity | 2001 | writer: "No One Can Save Me But My Baby" | |
| Taivas sinivalkoinen | 2001 | TV Mini-Series writer - 6 episodes | |
| Marianne Faithfull: Dreaming My Dreams | 2000 | Video documentary writer: "Strange Weather" | |
| Pollock | 2000 | performer: "The World Keeps Turning" / writer: "The World Keeps Turning" | |
| Maelstrom | 2000 | performer: "The Ocean Doesn't Want Me" | |
| The Perfect Storm | 2000 | performer: "Heart of Saturday Night" / writer: "Heart of Saturday Night" | |
| Keeping the Faith | 2000 | performer: "Please Call Me Baby" / writer: "Please Call Me Baby" | |
| Condo Painting | 2000 | Documentary performer: "Black Wings" / writer: "Black Wings" | |
| Gun Shy | 2000 | performer: "More Than Rain" / writer: "More Than Rain" | |
| Chyornaya komnata | TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2000 writer - 1 episode, 2000 | ||
| Liberty Heights | 1999 | performer: "Halloween Strip", "It's Over" / producer: "Halloween Strip", "It's Over" / writer: "Halloween Strip", "It's Over" | |
| Barend en Van Dorp | 1999 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| The Third Miracle | 1999 | performer: "Way Down in the Hole" / writer: "Way Down in the Hole" | |
| Fight Club | 1999 | performer: "Goin' Out West" / writer: "Goin' Out West" | |
| American Virgin | 1999 | "Heart Attack and Wine" | |
| Limbo | 1999 | writer: "Lookin' For The Heart of Saturday Night" | |
| Permanent Midnight | 1998 | performer: "WALKING SPANISH" / writer: "WALKING SPANISH" | |
| La vida en el aire | 1998 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Jerry and Tom | 1998 | performer: "Dirt In The Ground / writer: "Dirt In The Ground | |
| Johnny Skidmarks | 1998 | performer: "Walking Spanish" / writer: "Walking Spanish" | |
| Bunny | 1998 | Short performer: "Bend Down the Branches" / writer: "Bend Down the Branches" | |
| Trojan War | 1997 | writer: "I Hope I Don't Fall In Love With You" | |
| Afterglow | 1997 | performer: "Somewhere" | |
| The End of Violence | 1997 | performer: "Little Drop of Poison" / producer: "Little Drop of Poison" / writer: "Little Drop of Poison" | |
| La Femme Nikita | 1997 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Art City 1: Making It in Manhattan | 1996 | Documentary performer: "Just Another Sucker on the Vine" / writer: "Just Another Sucker on the Vine" | |
| Nebo ispod Osijeka | 1996 | Documentary performer: "Looking For The Heart Of Saturday Night" / writer: "Looking For The Heart Of Saturday Night" | |
| The Good Life | 1996 | "I Don't Wanna Grow Up" | |
| Homicide: Life on the Street | TV Series 1 episode, 1996 performer - 1 episode, 1996 writer - 1 episode, 1996 | ||
| Father's Day | 1996 | performer: "Who Are You This Time" / writer: "Who Are You This Time" - as T. Waits | |
| Basquiat | 1996 | performer: "Who Are You This Time", "Tom Traubert's Blues Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen" / writer: "Who Are You This Time", "Tom Traubert's Blues Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen" | |
| Coyote Run | 1996 | lyrics: "Jockey Full Of Bourbon" / music: "Jockey Full Of Bourbon" / performer: "Jockey Full Of Bourbon" | |
| Ed | 1996 | writer: "I Don't Wanna Grow Up" | |
| Generation X | 1996 | TV Movie performer: "Telephone Call From Istanbul" / writer: "Telephone Call From Istanbul" | |
| Little Criminals | 1995 | TV Movie performer: "Clap Hands" / writer: "Clap Hands" | |
| Twelve Monkeys | 1995 | performer: "The Earth Died Screaming" 1992 / writer: "The Earth Died Screaming" 1992 | |
| Top of the Pops | 1995 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Georgia | 1995 | performer: "THE PIANO HAS BEEN DRINKING" / writer: "THE PIANO HAS BEEN DRINKING" | |
| Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead | 1995 | performer: "Jockey Full Of Bourbon" / writer: "Jockey Full Of Bourbon" | |
| Smoke | 1995 | "Innocent when you dream" / performer: "Downtown Train", "Innocent when you dream" / writer: "Downtown Train", "Innocent when you dream" | |
| Boys on the Side | 1995 | writer: "Ol' 55" | |
| Fumbling Towards Ecstasy Live | 1994 | Video documentary writer: "Ol' 55" | |
| Beavis and Butt-Head | 1994 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| American Heart | 1992 | lyrics: "Jersey Girl" / music: "Jersey Girl" / performer: "I'll Never Let Go of Your Hand", "Jack's Flashback Theme" and "Additional Music", "I'm Crazy 'bout My Baby", "Jersey Girl" / producer: "I'll Never Let Go of Your Hand", "Jack's Flashback Theme" and "Additional Music" / writer: "I'll Never Let Go of Your Hand", "Jack's Flashback Theme" and "Additional Music" | |
| Léolo | 1992 | performer: "Cold Cold Ground", "Temptation" / writer: "Cold Cold Ground", "Temptation" | |
| Jersey Girl | 1992 | writer: "JERSEY GIRL" | |
| Night on Earth | 1991 | arranger: "Back in the Good Old World", "Good Old World" / producer: "Back in the Good Old World", "Good Old World" / writer: "Back in the Good Old World", "Good Old World" | |
| Red Hot and Blue | 1990 | TV Movie performer: "It's Alright With Me" | |
| Sea of Love | 1989 | performer: "SEA OF LOVE" End Title Version | |
| Boulevard of Broken Dreams | 1988 | performer: "Tom Traubert's Blues" / writer: "Tom Traubert's Blues" | |
| Let's Get Lost | 1988 | Documentary "Jersey Girl" |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Citizen | 2016 | TV Series announced | Cesar |
| The Simpsons | 2013 | TV Series | Lloyd |
| The Laughing Heart | 2012 | Short | Narrator |
| Seven Psychopaths | 2012 | Zachariah | |
| Twixt | 2011 | Narrator (voice) | |
| The Monster of Nix | 2011 | Short | Virgil |
| The Book of Eli | 2010 | Engineer | |
| The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | 2009 | Mr. Nick | |
| Wristcutters: A Love Story | 2006 | Kneller | |
| Domino | 2005 | Wanderer | |
| Coffee and Cigarettes | 2003 | Tom (segment "Somewhere in California") | |
| Mystery Men | 1999 | Doc Heller | |
| Coffee and Cigarettes III | 1993 | Short | Tom |
| Short Cuts | 1993 | Earl Piggot | |
| Dracula | 1992 | R.M. Renfield | |
| At Play in the Fields of the Lord | 1991 | Wolf | |
| The Fisher King | 1991 | Disabled Veteran (uncredited) | |
| Queens Logic | 1991 | Monte | |
| The Two Jakes | 1990 | Plainclothes Policeman (uncredited) | |
| Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale | 1989 | Silva | |
| Cold Feet | 1989 | Kenny | |
| Mystery Train | 1989 | Radio D.J (segment "Lost in Space") (voice) | |
| Greasy Lake | 1988 | Video | Narrator (voice, uncredited) |
| Ironweed | 1987 | Rudy | |
| Candy Mountain | 1987 | Al Silk | |
| Down by Law | 1986 | Zack | |
| The Cotton Club | 1984 | Irving Stark | |
| The Stone Boy | 1984 | Petrified man at carnival (uncredited) | |
| Rumble Fish | 1983 | Benny | |
| The Outsiders | 1983 | Buck Merrill | |
| One from the Heart | 1981 | Trumpet player (uncredited) | |
| Wolfen | 1981 | Drunken Bar Owner (uncredited) | |
| Paradise Alley | 1978 | Mumbles |
Composer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language of the Night | 2014 | Documentary short completed | |
| Hell Broke Luce | 2016 | Short | |
| Yo y Maru 2012 | 2013 | Short | |
| Susret | 2011 | Short music by | |
| The Keeper | 2009/II | Short | |
| Ole & Jarl | 2009 | TV Series 4 episodes | |
| Don't Say a Word | 2005 | Short | |
| The Dream Studio | 2004 | Video documentary short | |
| The Soul of Saturday Night | 2003 | Video short | |
| El plantador de árboles | 2001 | Short | |
| Herencia | 1995 | Short | |
| Abruxia | 1993 | Documentary short | |
| Il centro è uno schifo | 1993 | Documentary short | |
| Night on Earth | 1991 | ||
| Örült és angyal | 1989 | ||
| La première journée de Nicolas | 1984 | Short | |
| One from the Heart | 1981 |
Music Department
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mermaid of Venice | 2011 | Short composer: theme music | |
| The Black Rider | 1990 | TV Movie music and lyrics by | |
| One from the Heart | 1981 | additional orchestrator |
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Time | 1988 | Documentary writer |
Thanks
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lifers | 2014 | Short special thanks | |
| Moonshine | 2013 | Short very special thanks - for all the ...rust | |
| Bathing & the Single Girl | 2010 | Short thanks | |
| Brian R | 2009 | Documentary short thanks | |
| Idiots and Angels | 2008 | special thanks | |
| The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | 2007 | special thanks | |
| Sent | 2006 | Short special thanks | |
| Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room | 2005 | Documentary special thanks | |
| Independent Lens | 2005 | TV Series documentary special thanks - 1 episode | |
| Yes | 2004/I | thanks | |
| Closing Time | 1996 | dedicatee | |
| Romeo Is Bleeding | 1993 | special thanks | |
| CBS Schoolbreak Special | 1988 | TV Series special thanks - 1 episode |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keith Richards: Under the Influence | 2015 | Documentary | Himself |
| Late Show with David Letterman | 1999-2015 | TV Series | Himself / Himself - Musical Guest / Himself - Guest / ... |
| Tom Waits: Hell Broke Luce | 2012 | Video short | Himself |
| Late Night with Jimmy Fallon | 2012 | TV Series | Himself - Musical guest |
| A Brief History of John Baldessari | 2012 | Documentary short | Narrator |
| Austin City Limits | 1979-2011 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The 2011 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony | 2011 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Ray Charles America | 2010 | Documentary | Himself |
| One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur | 2008 | Documentary | Himself |
| Late Night with Conan O'Brien | 2007 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Daily Show | 2006 | TV Series | Himself |
| La tigre e la neve | 2005 | Himself | |
| Mississippi Rising | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Bukowski: Born into This | 2003 | Documentary | Himself |
| Freedom Highway: Songs that Shaped a Century | 2001 | Documentary | Himself |
| The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | 2000 | TV Series | Himself |
| Spotlight on Location: Mystery Men | 2000 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| VH1 Storytellers | 1999 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story | 1999 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Not in Our Name: Dead Man Walking - The Concert | 1998 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight | 1997 | Documentary | The Narrator (voice) |
| Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country | 1993 | Documentary | Himself |
| Until the End of the World | 1991 | Himself / Singer in Bar (uncredited) | |
| Fishing with John | 1991 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
| Red Hot and Blue | 1990 | TV Movie | Himself (segment "It's All Right With Me") |
| Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night | 1988 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Late Night with David Letterman | 1983-1988 | TV Series | Himself |
| Big Time | 1988 | Documentary | Himself |
| Arsenal | 1986 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Old Grey Whistle Test | 1985 | TV Series | Himself |
| Streetwise | 1984 | Documentary | Himself |
| Loose Talk | 1983 | TV Series | Himself |
| Poetry in Motion | 1982 | Documentary | Himself |
| The Making of 'One from the Heart' | 1982 | Documentary short | Himself |
| The Tom and Dick Smothers Brothers Special I | 1980 | TV Special | Himself |
| Canada After Dark | 1979 | TV Series | Himself |
| Tom Waits for No One | 1979 | Short | Himself (voice) |
| Tom Waits: A Day in Vienna | 1978 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Fernwood Tonight | 1977 | TV Series | Himself |
| Rockpalast | 1977 | TV Series | Himself |
| Saturday Night Live | 1977 | TV Series | Himself - Musical Guest |
| The Mike Douglas Show | 1976 | TV Series | Himself - Vocalist |
| Dinah! | 1976 | TV Series | Himself |
| Soundstage | 1975 | TV Series | Himself |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolezal Backstage | 2015 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Austropop-Legenden | 2014 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Jeopardy! | 2014 | TV Series | Himself |
| No me la puc treure del cap | 2012 | TV Series | Himself |
| La mandrágora | 2007 | TV Series | Himself |
| Absolute Wilson | 2006 | Documentary | Himself |
| Cinema mil | 2005 | TV Series | Zack |
| The Dream Studio | 2004 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Room 101 | 1994-2004 | TV Series | Himself |
| Sonic Youth: Teenage Riot | 1988 | Video short | Himself (uncredited) |
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | BSFC Award | Boston Society of Film Critics Awards | Best Ensemble Cast | Seven Psychopaths (2012) |
| 2004 | ASCAP Award | ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards | Top TV Series | The Wire (2002) |
| 1994 | Special Award | Golden Globes, USA | Short Cuts (1993) | |
| 1993 | Special Volpi Cup | Venice Film Festival | Short Cuts (1993) |
Nominated Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Grammy | Grammy Awards | Best Alternative Music Album | For the album "Bad as Me." |
| 2012 | SDFCS Award | San Diego Film Critics Society Awards | Best Ensemble Performance | Seven Psychopaths (2012) |
| 2006 | David | David di Donatello Awards | Best Song (Migliore Canzone) | La tigre e la neve (2005) |
| 2005 | Grammy | Grammy Awards | Best Rock Vocal Solo Performance | For the song "Metropolitan Guide." |
| 2004 | Grammy | Grammy Awards | Best Rock Vocal Performance - Male | For the song "Return of Jackie & Cody." |
| 1983 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score | One from the Heart (1981) |
Known for movies
Fight Club (1999)
as Soundtrack
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
as Soundtrack
The Wire
as Soundtrack
Shrek 2 (2004)
as Soundtrack
He deserves every single cent from his Genius. #tomwaitsisnotdead @Tom Waits