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Paul Williams

1940-09-19

The 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

Paul Williams in

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Baby Driver

7.5 average rating
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The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

6.7 average rating
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Battle for the Planet of the Apes

5.712 average rating
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Smokey and the Bandit

6.9 average rating
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Valentine's Day

5.913 average rating
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Superman: Red Son

7.139 average rating
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Phantom of the Paradise

7.5 average rating
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Smokey and the Bandit II

5.5 average rating
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The Rules of Attraction

6.1 average rating
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The Muppet Movie

7.188 average rating
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The Doors

7.132 average rating
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The Chase

7.086 average rating
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Georgia Rule

6 average rating
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The Cheap Detective

6.2 average rating
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Smokey and the Bandit Part 3

4.3 average rating
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A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa

5.9 average rating
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Daft Punk Unchained

7.2 average rating
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Solar Crisis

4.4 average rating
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The Loved One

6.3 average rating
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Watermelon Man

6.4 average rating