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Kathleen Brennan (I)

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Kathleen is the girl eulogized on husband Tom Waits' album Swordfishtrombones in the song entitled "Johnsburg, Illinois" (1983) which is her birthplace and where she was raised. As a writer herself, she became a huge influence in his music, as well as a collaborator, in many of his 1980s and 1990s projects See more trivia »

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Known For

La tigre e la neve
La tigre e la neve Music Department
(2005)
Night on Earth
Night on Earth Soundtrack
(1991)
Fight Club
Fight Club Soundtrack
(1999)

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 2017 Hand of God (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Gathering Dust (2017) ... (writer: "Little Drop of Poison" - uncredited)
 2016/I Elsewhere (Short) (writer: "Goin' Out West")
 2016 Ray Donovan (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Fish and Bird (2016) ... (writer: "Fish and Bird" - uncredited)
 2016 The X Files (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Babylon (2016) ... (writer: "Misery Is the River of the World" - uncredited)
 2016 A Girl Goes for Dinner (Short) (writer: "Goin' Out West")
 2015 Pawno (writer: "Walk Away" - as K. Brennan)
 2015 Inodorotem (Short) (writer: "How's It Gonna End" (Titules music))
 2014 Lifers (Short) (writer: "Chicago")
 2014 Orange Is the New Black (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- 40 Oz. of Furlough (2014) ... (writer: "Come on up to the house")
 2014 A Most Wanted Man (writer: "Hoist That Rag")
 2013 Bones (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- The Dude in the Dam (2013) ... (writer: "Picture in a Frame")
 2013 The Armstrong Lie (Documentary) (writer: "Long Way Home")
 2013 The Walking Dead (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- I Ain't a Judas (2013) ... (writer: "Hold On")
 2012 Bunheads (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- For Fanny (2012) ... (writer: "Picture In a Frame" - uncredited)
 2011 Breakfast with Bukowski (Short) (writer: "Hoist That Rag" - as Brennan)
 2010/I I'm Still Here (writer: "All The World Is Green")
 2010 Miral (writer: "Down There By The Train", "Lost In The Harbour")
 2008 American Carnival (Documentary) (writer: "I Don't Wanna Grow Up")
 2008 Jef (Short) (writer: "Alice")
 2008 Idiots and Angels (writer: "Kommienezuspadt", "Flowers Grave")
 2008 Beautiful Losers (Documentary) (writer: "I Don't Want to Grow Up")
 2008 Medicine for Melancholy (writer: "Lie To Me")
 2008 Frost (writer: "I don't want to grow up")
 2008 Live from Austin, TX: Norah Jones (Video documentary) (writer: "Long Way Home")
 2007 Mama's Boy (writer: "I Don't Want to Grow Up")
 2007 Le scaphandre et le papillon (as K. Brennan, "All The World Is Green", "Green Grass")
 2006 Wristcutters: A Love Story (writer: "Dead and Lovely")
 2006 The Ground Truth: After the Killing Ends (Documentary) (writer: "Day After Tomorrow")
 2005 La tigre e la neve (writer: "You Can Never Hold Back Spring")
 2005 Domino (writer: "Cold Cold Ground")
 2005 Embedded (Video) (writer: "Day After Tomorrow")
 2005 The Secret Life of Words (writer: "All the World Is Green")
 2005 Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Documentary) (writer: "God's Away on Business")
 2005 Clown (Short) (writer: "On the Other Side of the World")
 2005 Independent Lens (TV Series documentary) (writer - 1 episode)
- Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) ... (writer: "God's Away on Business")
 2004 Ramones Raw (Documentary) (writer: "I Don't Want to Grow Up")
 2004/I Yes (writer: "FAWN")
 2004 Shrek 2 (writer: "Little Drop of Poison" (1997))
 2003 The Big Empty (writer: "WALK AWAY")
 2003 The United States of Leland (writer: "Diamond in Your Mind")
 2002 Gilmore Girls (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Application Anxiety (2002) ... (writer: "Big in Japan")
 2001 The Last Castle (writer: "Get Behind the Mule")
 2000 Marianne Faithfull: Dreaming My Dreams (Video documentary) (writer: "Strange Weather")
 2000 Pollock (writer: "The World Keeps Turning")
 2000 Condo Painting (Documentary) (writer: "Black Wings")
 1999 Liberty Heights (writer: "Halloween Strip", "It's Over")
 1999 Fight Club (writer: "Goin' Out West")
 1998 Jerry and Tom (writer: "Dirt In The Ground)
 1997 The End of Violence (writer: "Little Drop of Poison")
 1996 La buena vida ("I Don't Wanna Grow Up")
 1996 Basquiat (writer: "Who Are You This Time")
 1996 Ed (writer: "I Don't Wanna Grow Up")
 1996 Late Show with David Letterman (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Episode #3.24 (1996) ... (writer: "I Don't Want to Grow Up")
 1995 Top of the Pops (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Episode dated 29 June 1995 (1995) ... (writer: "I Don't Wanna Grow Up")
 1992 American Heart (writer: "I'll Never Let Go of Your Hand", "Jack's Flashback Theme" and "Additional Music")
 1991 Night on Earth (writer: "Back in the Good Old World", "Good Old World")
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Show Show Writer (2 credits)
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(late 1970s) Worked as a script editor at Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope Studios See more »
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She and Waits met in 1980 during the filming of the Francis Ford Coppola film One from the Heart (1981). Waits was composing the original soundtrack for the film along with vocal accompanist Crystal Gayle. Kathleen worked at the film's Zoetrope Studio as a script analyst. See more »

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