Personal Info
Known For
Sound
Birthdate
1940-09-19 (Age: 86)
Place of Birth
Bennington, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Paul Williams
Biography
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
Filmography (63)
Killing Me Softly with His Songs
2022
Superman: Red Son
2020
Phantom of Winnipeg
2019
Waiting for Ishtar
2017
Baby Driver
2017
The Bandit
2016
Daft Punk Unchained
2015
Guillermo del Toro Interviews Paul Williams
2014
The Ghastly Love of Johnny X
2012
Paul Williams Still Alive
2011
Valentine's Day
2010
A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa
2008
Georgia Rule
2007
Loaded up and Trucking: The Making of Smokey and the Bandit
2006
