Paul Hamilton Williams was born September 19, 1940, in Omaha, Nebraska.

Table of contents
1 Actor
2 Songwriter
3 Screenwriter
4 External Links

Actor

Movies

  • The Loved One, 1965
  • The Chase, 1966
  • Watermelon Man, 1970
  • Battle for the Planet of the Apes, 1973
  • Phantom of the Paradise, 1974
  • Smokey and the Bandit, 1977
  • The Cheap Detective, 1978
  • The Muppet Movie, 1979
  • Smokey and the Bandit II, 1980
  • Smokey and the Bandit III, 1983
  • The Doors, 1991

Plays

  • Under the Sycamore Tree
  • Tru on Broadway, 1989

also numerous television appearances in the 1970s and 1980s

Songwriter

Songs

"Nice to Be Around" "Evergreen" "We've Only Just Begun" "Just an Old-Fashioned Love Song" "Out in the Country" "Rainy Days and Mondays"

Film music

  • The Getaway, 1972
  • The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing, 1972
  • Cinderella Liberty, 1973
  • Phantom of the Paradise, 1974
  • The Day of the Locust, 1975
  • Malone, 1976
  • A Star Is Born, 1976
  • One on One, 1977
  • The End, 1978
  • Agatha, 1979
  • The Muppet Movie, 1979
  • The Secret of NIMH, 1982

Also wrote music for television shows, including The Love Boat, The McLean Stevenson Show, It Takes Two, Sugar Time! and Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas.

Screenwriter

External Links