Name
Randy Newman
Known For
Sound
Birthday
1943-11-28 (83 years old)
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Biography
Randall Stuart Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, composer, and arranger. Born in Los Angeles to an extended family of Hollywood film composers, he is known for his Americana-inspired songs, non-rhotic Southern-accented singing, and lyrics that are often mordant or satirical and delivered by an unreliable narrator. Since the 1990s, he has worked mainly in film scoring, most popularly for Disney and Pixar.
Newman began his professional career in the early 1960s composing incidental music for television and later penning UK hits for acts such as Cilla Black, Gene Pitney, and the Alan Price Set. After he formed part of a creative circle at Warner Bros. Records in 1966, the company released his first solo album, Randy Newman (1968). Other artists subsequently enjoyed chart success with recordings of his songs "Mama Told Me Not to Come" (1967), "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" (1968), and "You Can Leave Your Hat On" (1972). His own hits as a recording artist include "Short People" (1977), "I Love L.A." (1983), and "You've Got a Friend in Me" (1995). Three of his eleven studio albums have charted in the U.S. top 40: Good Old Boys (1974), Little Criminals (1977), and Harps and Angels (2008).
Newman has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards (out of 22 nominations), three Emmys, seven Grammy Awards as well as nominations for a BAFTA Award and seven Golden Globe Awards. His award-winning film work includes Ragtime (1981), The Natural (1984), Toy Story (1995), A Bug's Life (1998), Pleasantville (1998), Monsters, Inc. (2001), Cars (2006), The Princess and the Frog (2009), Toy Story 3 (2010), and Marriage Story (2019). He was honored with the Recording Academy's Governors Award in 2003, a Disney Legend award in 2007,[5][6] and inductions into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013.
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- 2022 Everything Everywhere All at Once as Raccacoonie (voice) (uncredited)
- 2007 Lyle Lovett - In Concert as Himself
- 1986 Darlin' Clementine as Narrator (voice)
- 2005 The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz as Self
- 2013 Randy Newman: Live in Germany 2006 as Vocals / Piano
- 2006 Geared-Up
- 1993 For Our Children as Self
- 2009 The Princess and the Frog as Cousin Randy (voice)
- 1986 ¡Three Amigos! as Singing Bush (voice)
- 2017 Score: A Film Music Documentary as Self
- 1987 Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville as Self
- 1994 Land of Dreams - Randy Newman's America as Self
- 2017 Joe Cocker: Mad Dog with Soul as Self
- 2010 Randy Newman: Live in London as Himself
- 1996 The Story Behind 'Toy Story' as Self
- 1982 Randy Newman: Live at the Odeon as Self
- 2008 Fats Domino: Walkin' Back to New Orleans as Self
- 2009 The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story as Self
- 2007 The Pixar Story as Self
- 2010 Magic in the Bayou: The Making of a Princess as Self
- 1995 The Making of Toy Story as Self
- 2003 I Am, Unfortunately, Randy Newman
- 2015 Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond as Self
- 2016 The Natural: The Best There Ever Was as Self
- Soon Montage: Great Film Composers and The Piano
- 2026 The Last Critic
- 1995 The Hollywood Soundtrack Story as Self - Host
- 2015 Randy Newman at Baloise Session as Self
- Soon Monty and the Movies as Self (archive footage)
- Soon All About Alfred as Self
- 2002 Van Dyke Parks: An Obsession with Music as Self
- 1997 Ally McBeal ( 1 episode ) as Randy Newman
- 1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno ( 1 episode )
- 2005 The Colbert Report ( 1 episode )
- 1973 Rock Concert ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien ( 1 episode ) as Self - Musical Guest
- 1953 The Oscars ( 7 episodes ) as Self
- 1972 The Midnight Special ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2017 Popular Voices at the BBC ( 3 episodes ) as Self (archive footage)
- 2011 Hollywood in Vienna ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1968 Bobbie Gentry ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1985 Tall Tales & Legends ( 1 episode ) as Narrator (voice)
- 1996 3rd Rock from the Sun ( 2 episodes ) as Randy Newman
- 1975 Saturday Night Live ( 6 episodes ) as Self - Musical Guest
- 2011 Hamburg Journal ( 1 episode ) as self
- 1963 Miss USA ( 1 episode ) as Self - Entertainment
- 2025 Everybody's Live with John Mulaney ( 1 episode ) as Self - Musical Guest
- 2021 Hacks ( 1 episode ) as Randy Newman
- 1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2005 The Colbert Report ( 1 episode ) as Self (uncredited)
- 1977 The BRIT Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ( 1 episode ) as Self - Musical Guest
- 1992 Later... with Jools Holland ( 2 episodes )
