Paul Williams
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
112 acting credits
Acting · 112
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Star Trek: Voyager
1995
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
The Love Boat
1977
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Babylon 5
1994
Batman: The Animated Series
1992
Hawaii Five-O
1968
Community
2009
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
Superman: The Animated Series
1996
Dexter's Laboratory
1996
Police Woman
1974
Walker, Texas Ranger
1993
Goliath
2016
The Odd Couple
1970
The Fall Guy
1981
Baretta
1975
The Oscars
1953
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
1990
Dinah!
1974
227
1985
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
1977
The New Batman Adventures
1997
Baby Driver
2017
Dream On
1990
Gimme a Break!
1981
The Midnight Special
1972
The Muppet Show
1976
The Mask: Animated Series
1995
My Little Pony
1986
B. J. and the Bear
1979
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show
1997
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
2004
Boston Common
1996
Donny & Marie
1976
The Legend of Prince Valiant
1991
Perversions of Science
1997
Phantom 2040
1994
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
1948
The Captain and Tennille
1976
Good Heavens
1976
When Things Were Rotten
1975
The Muppet Movie
1979
Smokey and the Bandit
1977
Valentine's Day
2010
Fish Police
1992
The Doors
1991
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
1973
Phantom of the Paradise
1974
The Brady Bunch Hour
1977
Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters
1980
Smokey and the Bandit II
1980
The Rules of Attraction
2002
Prop Culture
2020
Superman: Red Son
2020
Smokey and the Bandit Part 3
1983
The Chase
1966
Georgia Rule
2007
The Cheap Detective
1978
A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa
2008
The Loved One
1965
Solar Crisis
1992
People Like Us
1990
Puttin' on the Hits
1984
Watermelon Man
1970
The Muppets Go Hollywood
1979
The Blinkins: The Bear and the Blizzard
1986
Old Gringo
1989
The Night They Saved Christmas
1984
Flight to Holocaust
1977
The Wild Wild West Revisited
1979
A Million to Juan
1994
Frog
1987
Voices That Care
1991
Daft Punk Unchained
2015
Frogs!
1991
Rooster
1982
Paul Williams Still Alive
2011
The Town Santa Forgot
1993
Enchanted Musical Playhouse
1984
The Bandit
2016
Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die
1994
Daft Punk | Random Access Memories | The Collaborators
2013
The Search for Haunted Hollywood
1989
The People's Command Performance: '77
1977
Headless Body in Topless Bar
1995
My Little Pony: Escape from Catrina
1985
Stone Cold Dead
1979
Paradise Regained: Brian de Palma's 'Phantom of the Paradise'
2006
Waiting for Ishtar
2017
Phantom of Winnipeg
2019
Firestorm
1996
The Last Halloween
1991
Postal Worker
1998
Nowhere Man
2005
Chill Factor
1989
Killing Me Softly with His Songs
2022
The Ghastly Love of Johnny X
2012
Nick & Noel
1993
The Paul Williams Comedy Show
1979
Timeless Tales: The Steadfast Tin Soldier
1991
The Muppet Revue
1985
Close to You: The Story of the Carpenters
2002
Twelfth Night
1987
Loaded up and Trucking: The Making of Smokey and the Bandit
2006
The Beatles Forever
1977
Guillermo del Toro Interviews Paul Williams
2014
Sam Kinison: Banned
1990
Behind the Scenes in Frogtown Hollow
2005
The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick
2001
A Regular Frankie Fan
2000