Paul Williams
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Born 1940-09-19
Bennington, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
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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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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Mike Douglas Show
The Love Boat
Star Trek: Voyager
Goliath
Golden Globe Awards
Dexter's Laboratory
Batman: The Animated Series
Hawaii Five-O
Community
Babylon 5
The Merv Griffin Show
The Fall Guy
Walker, Texas Ranger
Baby Driver
Superman: The Animated Series
Baretta
Police Woman
The Oscars
Dinah!
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
The Odd Couple
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
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The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
The Muppet Show
The New Batman Adventures
Bridget Jones's Baby
Dream On
The Happening
The Mask: Animated Series
My Little Pony
The Midnight Special
The Tick
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show
Valentine's Day
Gimme a Break!
B. J. and the Bear
Boston Common
The Doors
Perversions of Science
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
Donny & Marie
The Secret of NIMH
Phantom 2040
Smokey and the Bandit
The Muppet Christmas Carol
The Legend of Prince Valiant
The Chase
Phantom of the Paradise
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
The Muppet Movie
Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Georgia Rule
Smokey and the Bandit II
The Rules of Attraction
The Captain and Tennille
Bugsy Malone
Smokey and the Bandit Part 3
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