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Paul Williams (songwriter) Movies List (Filmography)

Paul Williams (songwriter) Movies List  (Filmography)

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". He also wrote "Cried Like a Baby" for teen idol Bobby Sherman.

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 No. 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 has 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. Since 2009, Williams has been the president and chairman of the American songwriting society ASCAP.

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Paul Williams (songwriter) Movies List

Paul Williams (songwriter) Films and Movies Timeline
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    Smokey and the Bandit
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    178598
  2. 3
    The Doors
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    37742
  3. 4
    Georgia Rule
    534310
    158512
  4. 8
    The Muppet Movie
    223551
    29828
  5. 9
    The Chase
    154446
    20408
  6. 12
    The Cheap Detective
    83352
    29738
  7. 13
    The Loved One
    50852
    17754
  8. 14
    Solar Crisis
    39729
    12968
  9. 18
    Frog
    6940
    2446
  10. 19
    Twelfth Night
    3862
    1072
  11. 20
    Rooster
    2065
    820
 
 

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