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Tom Waits Acting Filmography (77)
Wildwood
2026·(voice)
Wild Horse Nine
2026
Father Mother Sister Brother
2025·Father
Human Nature in Eleven Parts
2025·Narrator "Laughing Heart" (archive footage)
The Last Ride
2025·Self
Tom Waits: Glitter and Doom Concert Experience
2024·Self
The Absence of Eden
2024·Hunley
Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious
2022·Self
This Is Sparklehorse
2022·Self
Licorice Pizza
2021·Rex Blau
The Dead Don't Die
2019·Hermit Bob
Motherless Brooklyn
2019·News Stand Owner (uncredited)
The Old Man & the Gun
2018·Waller
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018·Prospector (segment "All Gold Canyon")
The Moon’s Milk
2018·Captain Millipede (voice)
Roy Orbison: Black and White Night 30
2017·Self
Tom Waits: Tales from a Cracked Jukebox
2017·Self
Keith Richards: Under the Influence
2015·Self
The Laughing Heart
2013·Narrator
Seven Psychopaths
2012·Zachariah Rigby
A Brief History of John Baldessari
2012·Narrator
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012·(archive footage)
Twixt
2011·Narrator (voice)
The Monster of Nix
2011·Virgil (Voice)
The Book of Eli
2010·Engineer
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
2009·Devil
Tom Waits: Romeo Bleeding - Live from Austin
2009·Self
Tom Waits: Under Review
2008·Self
One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur
2008·Self
Wristcutters: A Love Story
2007·Kneller
Tom Waits - Burma Shave [Live Concert]
2006·Self
The Tiger and the Snow
2005·Self / Sè stesso
Domino
2005·Wanderer
Coffee and Cigarettes
2004·Tom (segment "Somewhere in California")
Bukowski: Born Into This
2003·Self
Mystery Men
1999·Doc Heller
Tom Waits - Bridge School Benefit
1999·Self
Tom Waits: VH1 Storytellers
1999·Self
Tom Waits - Dead Man Walking, Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
1998·Self
Coffee and Cigarettes III
1997·Tom
Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight
1997·Narrator (voice)
Short Cuts
1993·Earl Piggot
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
1993·Self
Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992·R.M. Renfield
Until the End of the World
1991·Singer in Bar
Queens Logic
1991·Monte
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
1991·Wolf
The Fisher King
1991·Disabled Vet (uncredited)
John Lurie: A Lounge Lizard Alone
1990·Zack (Archive footage)
The Two Jakes
1990·Plainclothes Policeman (uncredited)
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
1990·Self
Cold Feet
1989·Kenny
Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale
1989·Silva
Mystery Train
1989·Radio DJ (voice)
Tom Waits: Big Time
1988·Self
Candy Mountain
1988·Al Silk
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
1988·Self - Organ/Guitar
Greasy Lake
1988·Narrator
Ironweed
1987·Rudy
Down by Law
1986·Zack
Tom Waits - Live at Premio Tenco in Sanremo Italy
1986·Himself
Tom Waits - Live On The Tube
1985·Self
The Cotton Club
1984·Irving Stark
The Stone Boy
1984·Petrified man at carnival (uncredited)
The Outsiders
1983·Buck Merrill
Rumble Fish
1983·Benny
One from the Heart
1982·Trumpet player (uncredited)
Poetry in Motion
1982·Self
The Making of 'One from the Heart'
1982·Self
Wolfen
1981·Drunken Bar Owner (uncredited)
Tom Waits at Theatre le Palace
1980·Self
Tom Waits: No Visitors After Midnight
1979·Self
Tom Waits for No One
1979·Self
Tom Waits: A Day in Vienna
1978·Self
Paradise Alley
1978·Mumbles
Tom Waits: Rockpalast '77
1977·Self
Tom Waits: Elephant Beer Blues - Songs After Closing Time
1976·Self