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- Ray Gunn → Eyera (voice)
- Tom Waits - One Star Shining : The First Decade → Self
- Star.Wav → The Caller
- Wildwood → (voice)
- Wild Horse Nine
- Father Mother Sister Brother → Father
- Human Nature in Eleven Parts → Narrator "Laughing Heart" (archive footage)
- The Last Ride → Self
- The Absence of Eden → Hunley
- Tom Waits: Glitter and Doom Concert Experience → Self
- Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious → Self
- This Is Sparklehorse → Self
- Ultra City Smiths (TV) → The Narrator (voice)
- Licorice Pizza → Rex Blau
- The Dead Don't Die → Hermit Bob
- Motherless Brooklyn → News Stand Owner (uncredited)
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs → Prospector (segment "All Gold Canyon")
- The Old Man & the Gun → Waller
- The Moon’s Milk → Captain Millipede (voice)
- Roy Orbison: Black and White Night 30 → Self
- Tom Waits: Tales from a Cracked Jukebox → Self
- Keith Richards: Under the Influence → Self
- The Laughing Heart → Narrator
- Seven Psychopaths → Zachariah Rigby
- Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen → (archive footage)
- A Brief History of John Baldessari → Narrator
- Twixt → Narrator (voice)
- The Monster of Nix → Virgil (Voice)
- The Book of Eli → Engineer
- The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus → Devil
- Tom Waits: Romeo Bleeding - Live from Austin → Self
- One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur → Self
- Tom Waits: Under Review → Self
- Wristcutters: A Love Story → Kneller
- Tom Waits - Burma Shave [Live Concert] → Self
- Domino → Wanderer
- The Tiger and the Snow → Self / Sè stesso
- Coffee and Cigarettes → Tom (segment "Somewhere in California")
- Bukowski: Born Into This → Self
- Mystery Men → Doc Heller
- Tom Waits - Bridge School Benefit → Self
- Tom Waits: VH1 Storytellers → Self
- Tom Waits - Dead Man Walking, Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, USA. → Self
- Coffee and Cigarettes III → Tom
- Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight → Narrator (voice)
- The Daily Show (TV) → Self
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien (TV) → Self - Musical Guest
- Short Cuts → Earl Piggot
- Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country → Self
- Bram Stoker's Dracula → R.M. Renfield
- The Fisher King → Disabled Vet (uncredited)
- Until the End of the World → Singer in Bar
- Fishing with John (TV) → Self
- Queens Logic → Monte
- At Play in the Fields of the Lord → Wolf
- The Two Jakes → Plainclothes Policeman (uncredited)
- Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter → Self
- John Lurie: A Lounge Lizard Alone → Zack (Archive footage)
- The Simpsons (TV) → Lloyd (voice)
- Mystery Train → Radio DJ (voice)
- Cold Feet → Kenny
- Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale → Silva
- Candy Mountain → Al Silk
- Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night → Self - Organ/Guitar
- Tom Waits: Big Time → Self
- Greasy Lake → Narrator
- Ironweed → Rudy
- Down by Law → Zack
- Tom Waits - Live at Premio Tenco in Sanremo Italy → Himself
- Tom Waits - Live On The Tube → Self
- The Cotton Club → Irving Stark
- The Stone Boy → Petrified man at carnival (uncredited)
- The Outsiders → Buck Merrill
- Rumble Fish → Benny
- One from the Heart → Trumpet player (uncredited)
- Poetry in Motion → Self
- The Making of 'One from the Heart' → Self
- Wolfen → Drunken Bar Owner (uncredited)
- Tom Waits at Theatre le Palace → Self
- Tom Waits for No One → Self
- Tom Waits: No Visitors After Midnight → Self
- Paradise Alley → Mumbles
- Tom Waits: A Day in Vienna → Self
- Tom Waits: Rockpalast '77 → Self
- Tom Waits: Elephant Beer Blues - Songs After Closing Time → Self
- Saturday Night Live (TV) → Self - Musical Guest
- Austin City Limits (TV) → Self
- Rockpalast (TV)
- The Mike Douglas Show (TV) → Self