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Paul Williams (songwriter)
Paul Hamilton Williams, Jr.〔 (born September 19, 1940)〔(Paul Williams's "mini biography" at IMDb )〕 is an American composer, singer, songwriter and actor. He is perhaps best known for popular songs performed by a number of acts in the 1970s including Three Dog Night's rendition of "An Old Fashioned Love Song", Helen Reddy's "You and Me Against the World", David Bowie's "Fill Your Heart", and the Carpenters' "We've Only Just Begun" and "Rainy Days and Mondays", as well as his contributions to films, such as writing the lyrics to the #1 chart-topping "Evergreen", the love theme from ''A Star Is Born'', starring Barbra Streisand, for which he won a Grammy for Song of the Year and an Academy Award for Best Original Song; and "Rainbow Connection" from ''The Muppet Movie''. He also wrote the lyrics to the opening theme for ''The Love Boat'', with music previously composed by Charles Fox, which was originally sung by Jack Jones, and later, by Dionne Warwick.
He has also had a variety of high-profile acting roles such as Little Enos Burdette in the action-comedy ''Smokey and the Bandit'' (1977), and as 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. He has worked as well in television, theater, and provided voice-overs for animation.
==Early life==
Williams was born in Omaha, Nebraska,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Omaha Nebraska )〕 the son of Paul Hamilton Williams, an architectural engineer, and his wife, Bertha Mae (née Burnside), a homemaker. His father died in a car accident in 1953 when Williams was 13 years old, after which Williams grew up living with his aunt.
One of his brothers was John S. Williams, a NASA rocket scientist, who participated in the Mercury and Apollo programs and was awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, their highest honor, in 1969. His other brother is Mentor Williams, a songwriter as well who penned Dobie Gray's 1973 hit "Drift Away".
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