
Loudon Wainwright III
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1946-09-05
Place of birth: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Biography
Loudon Snowden Wainwright III (born September 5, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter and occasional actor. He has released twenty-six studio albums, four live albums, and six compilations. Some of his best-known songs include "The Swimming Song", "Motel Blues", "The Man Who Couldn't Cry", "Dead Skunk", and "Lullaby". In 2007, he collaborated with musician Joe Henry to create the soundtrack for Judd Apatow's film Knocked Up. In addition to music, he has acted in small roles in at least eighteen television programs and feature films, including three episodes in the third season of the series M*A*S*H.
Known for

Big Fish
2003Beamen
Elizabethtown
2005Uncle Dale
Knocked Up
2007Dr. Howard
G-Force
2009Grandpa Goodman
For Your Consideration
2006Nominee Ben Connelly
The 40 Year Old Virgin
2005PriestPleased to Meet Me
2013Eric
The Slugger's Wife
1985Gary
Sleepwalk with Me
2012Uncle Max
Jacknife
1989Ferretti
28 Days
2000Guitar Guy
The Aviator
2004Cocoanut Grove Vocalist #2
Loudon Wainwright III: Surviving Twin
2018
We Only Know So Much
2018Theodore Copeland
True Story
2015Older Man
I Had a Dream
2016
Certainty
2011Tom