1940-09-19 ( 84 years old ) in Bennington, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Paul Hamilton Williams Jr. (born September 19, 1940) is an American composer, singer, songwriter, and actor. He is known for writing and co-writing popular songs performed by a number of acts in the 1970s, including Three Dog Night's "An Old Fashioned Love Song" and "Out in the Country", Helen Reddy's "You and Me Against the World", Biff Rose's "Fill Your Heart", and the Carpenters' "We've Only Just Begun" and "Rainy Days and Mondays".
Williams is also known for writing the score and lyrics for Bugsy Malone (1976) and his musical contributions to other films, including the Oscar-nominated song "Rainbow Connection" from The Muppet Movie, and writing the lyrics to the #1 chart-topping song "Evergreen", the love theme from the Barbra Streisand film A Star Is Born, for which he won a Grammy for Song of the Year and an Academy Award for Best Original Song. He wrote the lyrics to the opening theme for the television show The Love Boat, with music previously composed by Charles Fox, which was originally sung by Jack Jones and, later, by Dionne Warwick.
Williams had a variety of high-profile acting roles, such as Little Enos Burdette in the action-comedy Smokey and the Bandit (1977) and the villainous Swan in Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise (1974), which Williams also co-scored, receiving an Oscar nomination in the process.[6] Since 2009, Williams has been the president and chairman of the American songwriting society ASCAP.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movies
Killing Me Softly with His Songs
2022-11-10
Superman: Red Son
2020-02-24
Phantom of Winnipeg
2019-07-01
Waiting for Ishtar
2017-12-14
Baby Driver
2017-06-28
The Bandit
2016-03-12
Daft Punk Unchained
2015-06-24
Guillermo del Toro Interviews Paul Williams
2014-02-24
The Ghastly Love of Johnny X
2012-03-06
Paul Williams Still Alive
2011-09-11
Valentine's Day
2010-02-10
A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa
2008-12-17
Georgia Rule
2007-05-10
Behind the Scenes in Frogtown Hollow
2005-10-04
Nowhere Man
2005-03-11
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
2004-08-06
The Rules of Attraction
2002-10-11
Close to You: The Story of the Carpenters
2002-08-28
The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick
2001-01-01
A Regular Frankie Fan
2000-01-01
Postal Worker
1998-10-21
Firestorm
1996-07-29
Headless Body in Topless Bar
1995-05-20
A Million to Juan
1994-05-15
Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die
1994-05-06
The Town Santa Forgot
1993-12-03
Nick & Noel
1993-11-25
Solar Crisis
1992-08-06
The Last Halloween
1991-10-28
The Doors
1991-03-01
Voices That Care
1991-02-28
Frogs!
1991-01-01
People Like Us
1990-05-13
Sam Kinison: Banned
1990-01-01
The Search for Haunted Hollywood
1989-10-22
Old Gringo
1989-09-13
Chill Factor
1989-01-01
Twelfth Night
1987-06-01
Frog
1987-01-23
The Blinkins: The Bear and the Blizzard
1986-01-01
The Muppet Revue
1985-04-16
My Little Pony: Escape from Catrina
1985-03-23
The Night They Saved Christmas
1984-12-13
Smokey and the Bandit Part 3
1983-08-12
Rooster
1982-08-19
Smokey and the Bandit II
1980-08-15
Stone Cold Dead
1979-09-14
The Muppet Movie
1979-06-22
The Muppets Go Hollywood
1979-05-16
The Wild Wild West Revisited
1979-05-09
The Cheap Detective
1978-06-23
The Beatles Forever
1977-11-24
Smokey and the Bandit
1977-05-26
The People's Command Performance: '77
1977-04-07
Flight to Holocaust
1977-03-26
Phantom of the Paradise
1974-10-31
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
1973-06-15
Watermelon Man
1970-05-27
The Chase
1966-02-18
The Loved One
1965-10-11
Powered by Powerxsoft Ltd using the TMDB API