Paul Williams

Paul Williams (84)

1940-09-19 | 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

On Movies

  • Superman: Red Son
  • Baby Driver
  • The Ghastly Love of Johnny X
  • Valentine's Day
  • A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa
  • Georgia Rule
  • Nowhere Man
  • The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
  • The Rules of Attraction
  • Postal Worker
  • Firestorm
  • Headless Body in Topless Bar
  • A Million to Juan
  • Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die
  • The Town Santa Forgot
  • Nick & Noel
  • Solar Crisis
  • The Last Halloween
  • The Doors
  • Frogs!
  • People Like Us
  • Old Gringo
  • Chill Factor
  • Frog
  • The Blinkins: The Bear and the Blizzard
  • My Little Pony: Escape from Catrina
  • The Night They Saved Christmas
  • Smokey and the Bandit Part 3
  • Rooster
  • Smokey and the Bandit II
  • Stone Cold Dead
  • The Muppet Movie
  • The Muppets Go Hollywood
  • The Wild Wild West Revisited
  • The Cheap Detective
  • The Beatles Forever
  • Smokey and the Bandit
  • Flight to Holocaust
  • Phantom of the Paradise
  • Battle for the Planet of the Apes
  • Watermelon Man
  • The Chase
  • The Loved One

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