Paul Williams [35040] Gender: Male Popularity: 2.457 Birthplace: Bennington, Omaha, Nebraska, USA Birthday: 1940-09-19 Age: 84 years Movies: 60 Links: Homepage, IMDB 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 Killing Me Softly with 2022-11-10 Superman: Red Son2020-02-24 Phantom of Winnipeg2019-07-01 Waiting for Ishtar2017-12-14 Baby Driver2017-06-28 The Bandit2016-03-12 Daft Punk Unchained2015-06-24 Guillermo del Toro Inte2014-02-24 The Ghastly Love of Joh2012-03-06 Paul Williams Still Ali2011-09-11 Valentine's Day2010-02-10 A Muppets Christmas: Le2008-12-17 Georgia Rule2007-05-10 Paradise Regained: Bria2006-02-28 Behind the Scenes in Fr2005-10-04 Nowhere Man2005-03-11 The Princess Diaries 2:2004-08-06 The Rules of Attraction2002-10-11 Close to You: The Story2002-08-28 The Gospel According to2001-01-01 A Regular Frankie Fan2000-01-01 Postal Worker1998-10-21 Firestorm1996-07-29 Headless Body in Toples1995-05-20 A Million to Juan1994-05-15 Hart to Hart: Old Frien1994-05-06 The Town Santa Forgot1993-12-03 Nick & Noel1993-11-25 The Last Halloween1991-10-28 Voices That Care1991-02-28 The Doors1991-03-01 Frogs!1991-01-01 Solar Crisis1992-08-06 People Like Us1990-05-13 The Search for Haunted 1989-10-22 Old Gringo1989-09-13 Chill Factor1989-01-01 Twelfth Night1987-06-01 Frog1987-01-23 The Blinkins: The Bear 1986-01-01 My Little Pony: Escape 1985-03-23 The Night They Saved Ch1984-12-13 Smokey and the Bandit P1983-08-12 Rooster1982-08-19 Smokey and the Bandit I1980-08-15 Stone Cold Dead1979-09-14 The Muppet Movie1979-06-22 The Muppets Go Hollywoo1979-05-16 The Wild Wild West Revi1979-05-09 The Cheap Detective1978-06-23 The Beatles Forever1977-11-24 Smokey and the Bandit1977-05-26 The People's Command Pe1977-04-07 Flight to Holocaust1977-03-26 Phantom of the Paradise1974-10-31 Battle for the Planet o1973-06-15 Watermelon Man1970-05-27 The Chase1966-02-18 The Loved One1965-10-11 Loaded up and Trucking: