Tom Waits
ActingTotal Credits
104
Acting
90
First Credit
1961
Latest Credit
2026
The Simpsons
Lloyd (voice)
1989
Fishing with John
Self
1991
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
2012
Streetwise
Music
1984
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
Self - Organ/Guitar
1988
Night on Earth
Original Music Composer · Songs
1991
Bram Stoker's Dracula
R.M. Renfield
1992
Tom Waits: Big Time
Self · Writer · Original Music Composer · Lighting Design
1988
The Fisher King
Disabled Vet (uncredited)
1991
Mystery Train
Radio DJ (voice)
1989
Down by Law
Zack · Songs
1986
The Outsiders
Buck Merrill
1983
Short Cuts
Earl Piggot
1993
Coffee and Cigarettes III
Tom
1997
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Prospector (segment "All Gold Canyon")
2018
Roofman
Thanks
2025
Rumble Fish
Benny
1983
Wristcutters: A Love Story
Kneller
2007
Licorice Pizza
Rex Blau
2021
The Stone Boy
Petrified man at carnival (uncredited)
1984
Coffee and Cigarettes
Tom (segment "Somewhere in California")
2004
Seven Psychopaths
Zachariah Rigby
2012
The Book of Eli
Engineer
2010
Bukowski: Born Into This
Self
2003
The Tiger and the Snow
Self / Sè stesso
2005
Until the End of the World
Singer in Bar
1991
Keith Richards: Under the Influence
Self
2015
Motherless Brooklyn
News Stand Owner (uncredited)
2019
Bunny
Music · Music Producer
1998
Ultra City Smiths
The Narrator (voice)
2021
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Wolf
1991
The Cotton Club
Irving Stark
1984
Father Mother Sister Brother
Father
2025
The Old Man & the Gun
Waller
2018
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Devil
2009
Austin City Limits
Self
1975
Ironweed
Rudy
1987
Candy Mountain
Al Silk
1988
One from the Heart
Trumpet player (uncredited) · Original Music Composer · Songs
1982
The Two Jakes
Plainclothes Policeman (uncredited)
1990
Wolfen
Drunken Bar Owner (uncredited)
1981
Domino
Wanderer
2005
Paradise Alley
Mumbles
1978
Mystery Men
Doc Heller
1999
Queens Logic
Monte
1991
Miral
Songs
2010
The Absence of Eden
Hunley
2024
The Dead Don't Die
Hermit Bob
2019
Twixt
Narrator (voice)
2011
Rockpalast
Actor
1974
Rita Ritter
Original Music Composer
1984
Star.Wav
The Caller
The Making of 'One from the Heart'
Self
1982
Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale
Silva
1989
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
Self
1993
Poetry in Motion
Self
1982
Tom Waits: A Day in Vienna
Self
1978
The Black Rider
Original Music Composer
1990
Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight
Narrator (voice)
1997
The Monster of Nix
Virgil (Voice)
2011