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Loudon Wainwright

Loudon Wainwright

Highest Rated: 89% Knocked Up (2007)

Lowest Rated: 0% The Slugger's Wife (1985)

Birthday: Sep 5, 1946

Birthplace: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

In the early 1970s, spirited singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III was named one of the New Dylans, a moniker he never lived up to in terms of commercial success, though his many albums won him a number of devoted fans. The father of popular contemporary singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright and the son of famed Life Magazine editor Loudon Wainwright, Jr., Wainwright shared his father's way with words, penning lyric-driven songs both topical and deeply personal, marked by his biting wit and incisive point of view. In 1972 he had a novelty hit with the silly "Dead Skunk," a track off of his third album and first Columbia release.

Highest rated movies

89% Knocked Up
84% Sleepwalk With Me
64% Jacknife
33% 28 Days 28% Elizabethtown
22% G-Force
0% The Slugger's Wife

Photos

THE SLUGGER'S WIFE, Loudon Wainwright III, Rebecca De Mornay, 1985, (c)Columbia Pictures BIG FISH, Ewan McGregor, Hailey Anne Nelson, Missi Pyle, Louden Wainwright, Steve Buscemi, 2003, (c) Columbia G-FORCE, from left: Justin Mentell, Loudon Wainwright III, Piper Mackenzie Harris, 2009. ph: Robert Zuckerman/©Walt Disney Co. ELIZABETHTOWN, Michael Naughton, Louden Wainwright, Alice Marie Crowe, Paul Schneider, Orlando Bloom, 2005, ©Paramount Pictures ELIZABETHTOWN, Paul Schneider, Orlando Bloom, Loudon Wainwright, Gailard Sartain, 2005, (c) Paramount ELIZABETHTOWN, Loudon Wainwright, Orlando Bloom, 2005, (c) Paramount ELIZABETHTOWN, Louden Wainwright, Bruce McGill, Orlando Bloom, 2005, (c) Paramount ELIZABETHTOWN, Alice Marie Crowe, Loudon Wainwright III, Paula Deen, 2005, ©Paramount Pictures ELIZABETHTOWN, Alice Marie Crowe, Louden Wainwright, Michael Naughton, Dan Biggers, Paula Deen, Orlando Bloom, Paul Schneider, Patty Griffin, Maxwell/Reid Steen, 2005, (c) Paramount
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet We Only Know So Much Theodore Copeland (Character) - 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Loudon Wainwright III: Surviving Twin Unknown (Character) - 2018
No Score Yet 67% Pleased to Meet Me Eric (Character) - 2013
84% 71% Sleepwalk With Me Uncle Max (Character) $2.2M 2012
22% 40% G-Force Grandpa Goodman (Character) $119.4M 2009
89% 83% Knocked Up Dr. Howard (Character),
Original Music 		$148.7M 2007
28% 66% Elizabethtown Uncle Dale (Character) $26.8M 2005
33% 50% 28 Days Guitar Guy (Character) $37.0M 2000
64% 48% Jacknife Ferretti (Character) $1.6M 1989
0% 20% The Slugger's Wife Gary (Character) - 1985

TV

Credit
No Score Yet 49% The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Music Performer 2024
92% 78% Person of Interest Sheriff Landry (Guest Star) 2012
93% 75% Undeclared Hal Karp (Character) 2001-2002 2010
No Score Yet No Score Yet Late Night With Jimmy Fallon Music Performer 2010
93% 90% Parks and Recreation Barry (Guest Star) 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet Late Night With Conan O'Brien Music Performer 2008
No Score Yet No Score Yet According to Jim Unknown (Guest Star) 2006
No Score Yet No Score Yet Grounded for Life Dr. Weidlinger (Guest Star) 2003
No Score Yet 58% Saturday Night Live Music Performer 1975
No Score Yet 87% M*A*S*H Capt. Calvin Spalding (Guest Star) 1974-1975