
Paul Williams
Born September 19, 1940 · 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
Movies

Baby Driver

The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

Valentine's Day

The Muppet Movie

The Doors

Battle for the Planet of the Apes

Phantom of the Paradise

Smokey and the Bandit

Superman: Red Son

The Chase

The Rules of Attraction

Smokey and the Bandit II

Georgia Rule

Smokey and the Bandit Part 3

The Cheap Detective

A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa

The Muppets Go Hollywood

Solar Crisis

The Town Santa Forgot

The Loved One

Daft Punk Unchained

A Million to Juan

Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die

The Muppet Scriptmas Carol

Killing Me Softly with His Songs

The Night They Saved Christmas

The People's Command Performance: '77

Voices That Care

Nick & Noel

Old Gringo

The Blinkins: The Bear and the Blizzard

The Wild Wild West Revisited

People Like Us

Watermelon Man

Stone Cold Dead

The Bandit

Timeless Tales: The Steadfast Tin Soldier

Paul Williams Still Alive

Headless Body in Topless Bar

Paradise Regained: Brian de Palma's 'Phantom of the Paradise'

The Ghastly Love of Johnny X

Nowhere Man

Frog
TV Shows

Babylon 5

Golden Globe Awards

The Merv Griffin Show

Dexter's Laboratory

Community

Hawaii Five-O

Batman: The Animated Series

Superman: The Animated Series

Police Woman

Dinah!

Walker, Texas Ranger

Goliath

The Oscars

The Fall Guy

Captain Planet and the Planeteers

Baretta

The New Batman Adventures

The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries

Dream On

227

The Muppet Show

Gimme a Break!

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show

The Mask: Animated Series

The Midnight Special

B. J. and the Bear

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

The Tick

My Little Pony

The Legend of Prince Valiant

Donny & Marie

Boston Common

Perversions of Science

The Captain and Tennille

Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters

When Things Were Rotten

Phantom 2040

Good Heavens

The Brady Bunch Hour

Fish Police

Prop Culture

Puttin' on the Hits

Daft Punk | Random Access Memories | The Collaborators
More Movies

Postal Worker

My Little Pony: Escape from Catrina

Rooster

The Muppet Revue

Flight to Holocaust

Close to You: The Story of the Carpenters

Firestorm

Sam Kinison: Banned

Loaded up and Trucking: The Making of Smokey and the Bandit

Chill Factor

The Last Halloween

Frogs!

Guillermo del Toro Interviews Paul Williams

The Beatles Forever

Twelfth Night

A Regular Frankie Fan

Phantom of Winnipeg

Waiting for Ishtar

The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick




