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.
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| Known For | Sound |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.179 |
| Birthday | 1940-09-19 |
| Place of Birth | Bennington, Omaha, Nebraska, USA |
| Also Known As | Paul Hamilton Williams Jr., پائول ویلیامز, |
1973
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
5.687/1048
The fifth and final episode in the Planet of the Apes series. After the collapse of human civilization, a community of intelligent apes led by Caesar...
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Battle for the Planet of the Apes
1977
Smokey and the Bandit
6.974/795
A race car driver tries to transport an illegal beer shipment from Texas to Atlanta in under 28 hours, picking up a reluctant bride-to-be on the way.
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Smokey and the Bandit
1980
Smokey and the Bandit II
5.551/315
The Bandit goes on another cross-country run, transporting an elephant from Florida to Texas. And, once again, Sheriff Buford T. Justice is on his tai...
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Smokey and the Bandit II
1974
Phantom of the Paradise
7.459/738
Singer-songwriter Winslow Leach seeks revenge on the nefarious music producer Swan, who steals both Winslow's music and his favorite singer for the gr...
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Phantom of the Paradise
1984
The Night They Saved Christmas
5.673/26
An oil company is exploring two Arctic sites for oil. The needed blasting at the first site rocks Santa Claus' North Pole village. He realizes that an...
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The Night They Saved Christmas
1977
The People's Command Performance: '77
0/0
A celebrity lineup selected by a “specially conducted nationwide survey” entertains.
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The People's Command Performance: '77
1978
The Cheap Detective
6.35/100
A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of...
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The Cheap Detective
1979
Stone Cold Dead
5.917/18
Sergeant Boyd's police search to find a sniper who has been shooting hookers.
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Stone Cold Dead
1983
Smokey and the Bandit Part 3
4.432/177
The Enos duo convince Cletus, aka The Bandit, to come out of hiding and help them promote their new restaurant. With a little coaxing, he agrees, prod...
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Smokey and the Bandit Part 3
1991
Voices That Care
8.667/3
Behind the scenes making of the charity single "Voices That Care".
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Voices That Care
1965
The Loved One
6.158/45
Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whisp...
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The Loved One
1977
The Beatles Forever
0/0
A musical salute to The Beatles.
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The Beatles Forever
1985
The Muppet Revue
0/0
Kermit and Fozzie take a stroll down Muppet Memory Lane in this rollicking revue which contains both original production and material from the best of...
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The Muppet Revue
2011
Paul Williams Still Alive
6.8/23
Filmmaker and longtime fan Stephen Kessler's portrait of the award-winning 1970s singer-songwriter-actor, who disappeared for much of the 1980s and '9...
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Paul Williams Still Alive
1979
The Wild Wild West Revisited
5.382/17
The intrepid team of Old West government intelligence agents are brought out of retirement after 10 years to hunt down a cunning new adversary, the so...
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The Wild Wild West Revisited
2001
The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick
3.714/7
Writers, publishers, fans, and friends share their perspectives and memories of sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick. In his career, Philip Kindred Dick (1928...
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The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick
1987
Frog
5.167/6
Arlo Anderson loves his reptiles, and so when he decides to buy a rare breed of frog with his date money he winds up with more than he bargained for!...
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Frog
1979
The Muppets Go Hollywood
6.25/24
Kermit the Frog throws a glamorous party at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub to celebrate the premiere of the Muppets' first feature film, The Muppet Movi...
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The Muppets Go Hollywood
2012
The Ghastly Love of Johnny X
6.3/13
A truly mad concoction, blending 1950s juvenile delinquents, sci-fi melodrama, song-and-dance, and a touch of horror, everything in just the right com...
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The Ghastly Love of Johnny X
1991
The Last Halloween
6.111/9
Four Martians crash-land on Earth in search of candy for their home planet.
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The Last Halloween
2017
Waiting for Ishtar
0/0
A conversation about guilty pleasures turns into one man's quest to find others on a library waiting list, while simultaneously examining the fate of...
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Waiting for Ishtar
1987
Twelfth Night
6.333/3
Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into...
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Twelfth Night
1977
Flight to Holocaust
6/6
A team of troubleshooters is called to a skyscraper where a plane has crashed into the 20th floor and is stuck in the side of the building.
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Flight to Holocaust
1979
The Muppet Movie
7.211/691
The Muppets gather to watch their newly-finished big-budget rich-and-famous feature film: a talent agent persuades Kermit the Frog to leave the swamp...
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The Muppet Movie
1992
Solar Crisis
4.314/35
A huge solar flare is predicted to fry the Earth. Astronauts aboard the spaceship Helios must go to the Sun to drop a bomb equipped with an Artificial...
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Solar Crisis
2022
Killing Me Softly with His Songs
5/1
A musical documentary about the life and work of composer Charles Fox, known for pop hits such as 'Killing Me Softly with His Song', 'I Got a Name', '...
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Killing Me Softly with His Songs
1996
Firestorm
5.143/7
In the year 2024, a fierce battle rages between a ruthless villain and an android resistance group.
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Firestorm
2015
Daft Punk Unchained
7.207/157
Daft Punk Unchained is the first film about the pop culture phenomenon that is Daft Punk, the duo with 12 million albums sold worldwide and seven Gram...
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Daft Punk Unchained
1991
The Doors
7.111/1587
The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.
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The Doors
1989
Chill Factor
4.2/5
After a day of filming her popular "Window On The World" television series, hostess Katherine returns to her hotel room to find Clifford, an ex-CIA...
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Chill Factor
1966
The Chase
7.09/322
The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.
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The Chase
1993
Nick & Noel
6.444/9
A singer and her dog move next door to a widowed father, his little girl and her cat. Despite a rough start, the neighbors grow close, just in time fo...
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Nick & Noel
2016
The Bandit
7.6/11
THE BANDIT is a film about 70s superstar Burt Reynolds, his best friend, roommate and stunt-double Hal Needham, and the making of their unlikely smash...
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The Bandit
2006
Loaded up and Trucking: The Making of Smokey and the Bandit
0/0
a “making of” documentary on Smokey and the Bandit
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Loaded up and Trucking: The Making of Smokey and the Bandit
2019
Phantom of Winnipeg
0/0
When Brian De Palma's 1974 film Phantom of the Paradise was released, it was considered a failure almost everywhere. Except in the Canadian city of Wi...
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Phantom of Winnipeg
1989
The Search for Haunted Hollywood
5.6/5
1989 TV documentary looking into the haunted legends of old Hollywood.
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The Search for Haunted Hollywood
1995
Headless Body in Topless Bar
3.833/6
An ex-con holds a group of people hostage in a topless bar.
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Headless Body in Topless Bar
1970
Watermelon Man
6.276/58
A racist insurance agent lives in a typical suburban neighborhood, but his bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is...
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Watermelon Man
2017
Baby Driver
7.442/16757
After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.
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Baby Driver
1986
The Blinkins: The Bear and the Blizzard
5.692/13
A little girl, Molly, loses her doll, Belinda, in the Blinkin wood and the Blinkins find it and make it their mission to return her to the owner. In t...
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The Blinkins: The Bear and the Blizzard
2002
The Rules of Attraction
6.178/600
The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a...
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The Rules of Attraction
1985
My Little Pony: Escape from Catrina
6.8/15
All the little ponies and their young friend Megan must save Baby Surprise and their ponies, magical rainbow locket from the evil Cartrina. If they do...
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My Little Pony: Escape from Catrina
2014
Guillermo del Toro Interviews Paul Williams
0/0
Director Guillermo del Toro interviews actor-composer Paul Williams about his career and his experience with Brian De Palma's film Phantom of the Para...
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Guillermo del Toro Interviews Paul Williams
2006
Paradise Regained: Brian de Palma's 'Phantom of the Paradise'
5.5/2
A 50-minute documentary on the making of the film featuring director Brian De Palma, producer Edward R. Pressman, the late star William Finley, star a...
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Paradise Regained: Brian de Palma's 'Phantom of the Paradise'
2000
A Regular Frankie Fan
5.5/2
A Regular Frankie Fan is a 2000 documentary film on the fans of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. It was narrated by Paul Williams and written and direct...
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A Regular Frankie Fan
2008
A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa
5.942/73
When Gonzo forgets to mail three letters to Santa, he convinces Kermit and the gang to help him deliver the notes to the North Pole. Along the way, th...
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A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa
2020
Superman: Red Son
7.08/894
Set in the thick of the Cold War, Red Son introduces us to a Superman who landed in the USSR during the 1950s and grows up to become a Soviet symbol t...
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Superman: Red Son
2007
Georgia Rule
5.976/473
Rebellious, uncontrollable teenager, Rachel is hauled off by her dysfunctional mother to spend the summer with her estranged grandmother, Georgia. Her...
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Georgia Rule
1991
Frogs!
3.5/4
Gus, a former frog prince turned lounge singer, shows up on his friend's doorstep just when Arlo has little time to help him. But when Gus tangles wit...
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Frogs!
2004
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
6.714/3395
Mia Thermopolis is now a college graduate and on her way to Genovia to take up her duties as princess. Accompanied by her friend Lilly, Mia continues...
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The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
2010
Valentine's Day
5.921/3154
Intertwining couples and singles in Los Angeles break-up and make-up based on the pressures and expectations of Valentine's Day.
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Valentine's Day
1994
A Million to Juan
5.667/6
Romantic comedy about an honest Mexican immigrant who struggles without a green card by selling oranges on a street corner. One day a limousine pulls...
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A Million to Juan
1994
Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die
6.769/13
The Harts find themselves in the middle of a dangerous murder plot, but it isn't clear if the plot it a famous author's fictional murder-mystery, or a...
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Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die
1989
Old Gringo
5.586/37
A writer forms a triangle with a schoolmarm and a Mexican general on the run.
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Old Gringo
1998
Postal Worker
4.2/5
A time bomb is ticking in a small regional postal facility and his name is Oren Starks (Brad Garrett). Oren fits the profile of a new breed of killers...
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Postal Worker
1993
The Town Santa Forgot
6.955/11
A spoiled brat sends a very long list to Santa Claus who misdelivers the gifts to a town with the same name as the boy, who learns it's better to give...
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The Town Santa Forgot
2005
Nowhere Man
5/2
A desperate man ventures into a dangerous and sordid underworld of crime and pornography in search of his severed genitalia which is held for ransom b...
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Nowhere Man
1982
Rooster
4.5/2
A physically small police psychologist and a physically large insurance detective team up on an arson case.
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Rooster
2005
Behind the Scenes in Frogtown Hollow
0/0
Interviews with key participants from and behind-the-scenes footage of Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (1977).
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Behind the Scenes in Frogtown Hollow
1990
People Like Us
5.75/4
When a wealthy scriptwriter and socialite's daughter is murdered, he feels let down by the courts, and so decides to use his powerful position to enab...
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People Like Us
2002
Close to You: The Story of the Carpenters
0/0
Documentary detailing the career of The Carpenters from their formative years through to specially shot footage of Richard Carpenter in the recording...
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Close to You: The Story of the Carpenters
1990
Sam Kinison: Banned
7/2
Sam Kinison live at the Felt Forum, 2/14/89. Also has opening act Carl Labove plus Sam's 3 MTV videos.
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Sam Kinison: Banned
1991
Timeless Tales: The Steadfast Tin Soldier
6.5/4
Animation based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen
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