- Films
- 15
- Avg rating
- 6.74
- Peak run
- 1992’18
- 7+ run
- 3 films
Every film, by IMDb rating
The career
Dot size shows IMDb votes. Films with fewer than 1,000 votes sit on the baseline.
As an actor, films with 1,000+ votes
Tom by the numbers
Average
6.74
12 rated films
Vote weighted
6.78
bigger films count more
Median
6.8
half are better
Consistency
±0.64
rating spread
Career
41y
1986 to 2026
Total votes
1.18M
across every film
Best
7.6
Down by Law
Worst
5.4
The Dead Don't Die
Newest first
Filmography
| 2026 |  Wild Horse Nine | Jim | · | 534 |
| 2025 |  Father Mother Sister Brother | Father | 6.5 | 15,731 |
| 2023 | The Absence of Eden | Hunley | · | 931 |
| 2021 |  Licorice Pizza | Rex Blau | 7.1 | 164K |
| 2019 |  The Dead Don't Die | Hermit Bob | 5.4 | 104K |
| 2018 |  The Old Man & the Gun | Waller | 6.7 | 53,103 |
| 2010 |  The Book of Eli | Engineer | 6.8 | 365K |
| 2006 |  Wristcutters: A Love Story | Kneller | 7.2 | 60,111 |
| 2003 |  Coffee and Cigarettes | Tom (segment: Somewhere in California) | 7.0 | 71,399 |
| 1992 |  Dracula | R.M. Renfield | 7.4 | 272K |
| 1991 | At Play in the Fields of the Lord | Wolf | 6.8 | 3,762 |
| 1991 | Queens Logic | Monte | 5.7 | 2,013 |
| 1989 | Cold Feet | Kenny | · | 509 |
| 1987 |  Ironweed | Rudy | 6.7 | 10,837 |
| 1986 |  Down by Law | Zack | 7.6 | 59,318 |
Better together?
Tom Waits's regulars
The number on the right is the lift: their average together minus the average of their two careers.
Takes
On Tom Waits
1 nominations, 0 wins
Awards record
- NominatedBest Song Score or Adaptation Score · Academy Awards 1983Song Score by Tom Waits
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