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Acting

Tom Waits

Career: Active from 1982 to 2026, busiest in 1988 with 3 main titles.

Leading roles: 14
top three billing

Average score: 69/100

Highest rated: Short Cuts
84/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 42 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Tom Waits Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Scare
2.0, average 2.6
Contemporary Realism
4.9, average 5.4

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 4
Dialogue-Driven 2
Conversational 2
Deadpan Humor 2
Ensemble Cast 2
Social Commentary 2
Surreal Fantasy 2
Dreamlike Narrative 2
Magical Realism 2
Offbeat 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

66

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

9 titles · average score 76

Ray Gunn

66

as Eye-Ra (voice)

Wild Horse Nine

74

as Jim

Wildwood

90

as Maxim (voice)

Father Mother Sister Brother

69

as Father

Roofman

73

Thanks

Human Nature in Eleven Parts

as Narrator "Laughing Heart" (archive footage)

Star.Wav

as The Caller

Ultra City Smiths

79

TV show · as The Narrator (voice)

Licorice Pizza

79

as Rex Blau

2010s

14 titles · average score 64

The Dead Don't Die

51

as Hermit Bob

Motherless Brooklyn

65

as News Stand Owner (uncredited)

The Old Man & the Gun

76

as Waller

The Moon’s Milk

as Captain Millipede (voice)

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

79

as Prospector (segment "All Gold Canyon")

The Laughing Heart

as Narrator

Seven Psychopaths

72

as Zachariah Rigby

A Brief History of John Baldessari

as Narrator

The Monster of Nix

70

as Virgil (Voice)

Twixt

43

as Narrator (voice)

The Book of Eli

58

as Engineer

Miral

47

Songs

2000s

6 titles · average score 61

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

64

as Devil

Wristcutters: A Love Story

69

as Kneller

To Live and to Die in Samarkand

Sound

Domino

42

as Wanderer

Coffee and Cigarettes

68

as Tom (segment "Somewhere in California")

Stille Nacht V: Dog Door

Lyricist

1990s

14 titles · average score 68

Mystery Men

61

as Doc Heller

Bunny

66

Music, Songs

Coffee and Cigarettes III

73

as Tom

Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight

as Narrator (voice)

Short Cuts

84

as Earl Piggot

Bram Stoker's Dracula

68

as R.M. Renfield

Night on Earth

75

Original Music Composer, Songs

At Play in the Fields of the Lord

68

as Wolf

The Fisher King

76

as Disabled Vet (uncredited)

Until the End of the World

77

as Singer in Bar

The Black Rider

Original Music Composer

The Two Jakes

56

as Plainclothes Policeman (uncredited)

1980s

20 titles · average score 69

The Simpsons

83

TV show · as Lloyd (voice)

Cold Feet

44

as Kenny

Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale

as Silva

Tom Waits: Big Time

77

Original Music Composer, Writer

Greasy Lake

as Narrator

Candy Mountain

66

as Al Silk

Down by Law

79

as Zack

Rita Ritter

Original Music Composer

Streetwise

88

Music

The Outsiders

65

as Buck Merrill

Rumble Fish

71

as Benny

One from the Heart

58

as Trumpet player (uncredited)

1970s

3 titles · average score 52

Tom Waits for No One

Music

Paradise Alley

52

as Mumbles

Rockpalast

TV show