Known for timeless classics such as "We've Only Just Begun", "Rainy Days and Mondays", "Evergreen", "Just An Old Fashioned Love Song" and "Rainbow Connection", Paul Williams is responsible for what will remain part of our pop culture for many years to come. His music has been recorded by some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry...See full bio »
2011Won't Last a Day Without You
(music: "I Won't Last a Day Without You" / as Paul H. Williams / lyrics: "I Won't Last a Day Without You" / as Paul H. Williams)
2011The Muppets
(writer: "The Rainbow Connection", "The Rainbow Connection Moopets Version")
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Larry the Cable Guy/Uncharted 3/Paul Williams
(2011)
(writer: "The Rainbow Connection" / lyrics: "Theme from 'The Love Boat'", "We've Only Just Begun", "Rainy Days and Mondays" / performer: "Theme from 'The Love Boat'", "We've Only Just Begun", "Rainy Days and Mondays", "The Rainbow Connection")
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Episode #1.365
(2010)
(writer: "Movin' Right Along" - uncredited)
2005Behind the Scenes in Frogtown Hollow
(video documentary)
(writer: "Ain't no Hole in the Washtub", "Bar B Que", "Born in a Trunk", "Brothers", "Our World", "The Bathing Suit That Grandma Otter Wore", "Riverbottom Nightmare Band", "When the River Meets the Sea")
1992The Muppet Christmas Carol
(music: "Scrooge", "One More Sleep 'Til Christmas", "Marley And Marley", "When Love Is Gone", "It Feels Like Christmas", "Christmas Scat", "Bless Us All", "Thankful Heart", "Finale - When Love Is Found / It Feels Like Christmas" / lyrics: "Scrooge", "One More Sleep 'Til Christmas", "Marley And Marley", "When Love Is Gone", "It Feels Like Christmas", "Christmas Scat", "Bless Us All", "Thankful Heart", "Finale - When Love Is Found / It Feels Like Christmas")
1987Ishtar
(music: "DANGEROUS BUSINESS", "PORTABLE PICNIC", "LOVE IN MY WILL", "SOFTWARE", "THE ECHO SONG", "CAROL", "THAT A LAWNMOWER CAN DO ALL THAT", "WARDROBE OF LOVE", "HELLO ISHTAR", "I LOOK TO MECCA", "HOW BIG AM I?" / lyrics: "DANGEROUS BUSINESS", "PORTABLE PICNIC", "LOVE IN MY WILL", "CAROL", "THAT A LAWNMOWER CAN DO ALL THAT", "WARDROBE OF LOVE", "HELLO ISHTAR" / producer: "DANGEROUS BUSINESS", "THAT A LAWNMOWER CAN DO ALL THAT", "HELLO ISHTAR", "I LOOK TO MECCA", "HOW BIG AM I?" / "DANGEROUS BUSINESS", "THAT A LAWNMOWER CAN DO ALL THAT", "HELLO ISHTAR", "I LOOK TO MECCA", "HOW BIG AM I?")
1986One Voice
(TV special documentary)
(lyrics: "Evergreen")
1979The Muppet Movie
(music: "Rainbow Connection", "Movin' Right Along", "Can You Picture That", "Never Before, Never Again", "I Hope That Somethin' Better Comes Along", "I'm Going To Go Back There Someday", "Finale: The Magic Store" / lyrics: "Rainbow Connection", "Movin' Right Along", "Can You Picture That", "Never Before, Never Again", "I Hope That Somethin' Better Comes Along", "I'm Going To Go Back There Someday", "Finale: The Magic Store")
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Episode #1.8
(1977)
(writer: "The Hell of It", "Just An Old Fashioned Love Song" / performer: "The Hell of It", "Just An Old Fashioned Love Song", "I Believe in Music")
1977Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas
(TV movie)
(writer: "The Old Bathing Suit That Your Grandma Otter Wore", "When The River Meets The Sea")
1976A Star Is Born
(music: "WATCH CLOSELY NOW", "SPANISH LIES", "HELLACIOUS ACRES", "WOMAN IN THE MOON", "WITH ONE MORE LOOK AT YOU" / lyrics: "WATCH CLOSELY NOW", "SPANISH LIES", "HELLACIOUS ACRES", "EVERYTHING", "EVERGREEN Love Theme from A Star is Born", "WOMAN IN THE MOON", "WITH ONE MORE LOOK AT YOU")
1976The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
(TV movie)
(writer: "What Would They Say" - uncredited / performer: "What Would They Say" - uncredited)
1976/ILifeguard
(music: "Time and Tide" / lyrics: "Time and Tide")
1976Bugsy Malone
(writer: "Bugsy Malone" - uncredited, "Fat Sam's Grand Slam" - uncredited, "Tomorrow" - uncredited, "Bad Guys" - uncredited, "I'm Feeling Fine" - uncredited, "My Name Is Tallulah" - uncredited, "So You Wanna Be A Boxer" - uncredited, "Ordinary Fool" - uncredited, "Down And Out" - uncredited, "You Give A Little Love" - uncredited / performer: "Bugsy Malone" - uncredited, "You Give A Little Love" - uncredited)
1974Phantom of the Paradise
(writer: "Goodbye, Eddie, Goodbye", "Faust", "Upholstery", "Special To Me", "The Phantom's Theme", "Somebody Super Like You", "Life At Last", "Old Souls", "The Hell Of It" / performer: "The Phantom's Theme", "Faust", "The Hell Of It")
1974Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
(writer: "Where Do I Go from Here" / performer: "Where Do I Go from Here")
2012The Richest Songs in the World
(documentary)
Himself - Oscar & Grammy Award-Winning Songwriter/President & Chairman of American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
[His acceptance speech after winning his 1977 Oscar for "Evergreen"] I was going to thank all the little people, then I remembered I am the little people.
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Trivia:
Is an avid skydiver. Has completed more the 100 jumps (as of 1980).
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