John Waters
Born
April 22, 1946 (79 years old)
Known For
Directing
Place of Birth
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
John Samuel Waters Jr. (born April 22, 1946) is an American filmmaker, writer, actor, and artist. He rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films, including Multiple Maniacs (1970), Pink Flamingos (1972) and Female Trouble (1974). Waters wrote and directed the comedy film Hairspray (1988), which was later adapted into a hit Broadway musical and a 2007 musical film. Other films he has written and directed include Desperate Living (1977), Polyester (1981), Cry-Baby (1990), Serial Mom (1994), Pecker (1998), and Cecil B. Demented (2000). His films contain elements of post-modern comedy and surrealism.
As an actor, Waters has appeared in Sweet and Lowdown (1999), 'Til Death Do Us Part (2007), Mangus! (2011), Excision (2012), Suburban Gothic (2014), and has appeared in the Child's Play franchise with Seed of Chucky (2004) and third season of the television series Chucky (2024). He hosted and produced the television series John Waters Presents Movies That Will Corrupt You (2006). Throughout his career, Waters has often collaborated with actor and drag queen Divine and his regular cast of the Dreamlanders. More recently, he performs in his touring one-man show This Filthy World.
Waters also works as a visual artist and across different media, such as installations, photography, and sculpture. The audiobooks he narrated for his books Carsick and Mr. Know-It-All were nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album in 2015 and 2020, respectively. In 2018, Waters was named an officer of the Order of Arts and Letters in France. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2023.
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Lynch/Oz
Host (Chapter 3: 'Kindred') (voice)
2023
Little Richard: I Am Everything
Self
2023
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Self (Archive Footage)
2022
The Book of Harth
Self
2022
Tell Me Iggy
Self
2022
Blood, Guts and Sunshine: The History of Horror Made in Florida
Self [archival]
2021
The Velvet Underground
Self
2021
Weiner
Self (archive footage)
2016
Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story
Self
2015
I Am Divine
Self
2014
Jingle Bell Rocks!
Self
2013
Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open
Self
2013
Excision
William
2012
Mansome
Self
2012
The Advocate for Fagdom
Self
2011
Mangus!
Jesus Christ
2011
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
Self
2010
Uncle Bob
Self (archiveFootage)
2010
Beautiful Darling
Self
2010
It Came from Kuchar
Self
2009
The Wild World of Ted V. Mikels
Narrator
2008
Obscene
Self
2008
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
Self
2007
This Filthy World
Self
2006
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
Self
2006
Mommie Dearest: Joan Lives On
2006
Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea
Self - Narrator (voice)
2006
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Self - Director of 'A Dirty Shame'
2006
That Man: Peter Berlin
Self
2006
Seed of Chucky
Pete Peters
2004
Thinking XXX
Self
2004
A History of Sex
Self
2003
Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat
The Reverend
2002
Divine Trash
Self
2000
Sweet and Lowdown
Mr. Haynes
1999
In Bad Taste
Self
1999
Yesterday's Tomorrows
Self
1999
God Save the Queens
1995
Homer and Eddie
Robber #1
1989
Something Wild
Used Car Guy
1986
Love Letter to Edie
Self
1975
Pink Flamingos
Mr. J (voice) (uncredited)
1972
My Life with the Waters
Self
TURA!
Self (archive footage)
2024
Scala!!!
Self
2024
A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard
2022
Fragments of Paradise
Self
2022
Living with Chucky
Self
2022
At the Video Store
Self
2019
Mansfield 66/67
Self
2017
Wall Writers
Narrator (voice)
2016
Whatever Happened to Gelitin
Self
2016
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
First Class Passenger
2015
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
2015
Tab Hunter Confidential
Self
2015
Suburban Gothic
Cornelius
2014
The Sarnos: A Life in Dirty Movies
Self
2013
Blank City
Self
2011
These Amazing Shadows
Self
2011
Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore
2010
New Line Cinema: The First Generation and the Next Generation
Self
2008
365 Day Project
2007
The Junior Defenders
Narrator
2007
Hairspray
Flasher
2007
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Self
2007
Each Time I Kill
Movie Watcher
2007
Jackass Number Two
Self
2006
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off & On Broadway
Self
2006
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
Self
2006
Busby Berkeley's Kaleidoscopic Eyes
2006
(buz'be bur'kle) n. A Study in Style
Self
2006
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
Self
2006
Meet The Kuchar Brothers
2006
I, of the Cyclops
2006
All the Dirt on 'A Dirty Shame'
Self
2005
Growing Up with John Waters
Self
1993
No Smoking in This Theater
Self
1982
Mary Woronov: Cult Queen
The Brandon Novak Story
Self
Velvet Vision: The Story of James Bidgood and the Making of Pink Narcissus
Self
2025
It's Dorothy!
Self
2025
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
Self - Writer and Film Director · (1 episode)
2025
As Time Goes By
2024
Doc of Chucky
Self
2024
Don't Fall in Love with Yourself
Self (Archival)
2022
Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow
(1 episode)
2022
The Andy Warhol Diaries
Self · (6 episodes)
2022
Chucky
Wendell Wilkins · (1 episode)
2021
Pride
Self · (6 episodes)
2021
The Mystery of the Pink Flamingo
Himself
2020
Helluva Boss
Rolando (voice) · (1 episode)
2020
Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
Host
2020
Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
Host
2020
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
Host
2020
Joel Calls Indie Film Type Dudes
2020
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
Self
2019
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
Self
2019
Sniffing Out ‘Polyester’
Self
2019
Mugworth
Sir Butler
2018
Liverspots and Astronots
O-Dor · (21 episodes)
2018
Crime and Beauty: Making ‘Female Trouble’
2018
Explained
Narrator (voice) · (1 episode)
2018
Sickies Making Films
Self
2018
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution
Self
2017
FEUD
William Castle · (1 episode)
2017
Search Party
Sheffield · (2 episodes)
2016
In Conversation With Director John Waters, Actress Kathleen Turner and Actress Mink Stole
Self
2016
The New Yorker Presents
Self · (1 episode)
2016
Sympathy For The Devil: The True Story of The Process Church of the Final Judgment
Self
2015
Clarence
Captain Tom (voice) · (1 episode)
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self · (1 episode)
2014
HitRECord on TV with Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Self · (1 episode)
2014
The Blacklist
John Waters · (1 episode)
2013
RuPaul Drives...
Self - Guest · (2 episodes)
2013
Frankenstein: A Modern Myth
Self - Director
2012
Finding Your Roots
Self · (1 episode)
2012
Fish Hooks
Ezekiel Freshwater / Hair Man (voice) · (1 episode)
2010
Fish Hooks
The Yeti Lobster (voice) · (1 episode)
2010
Offspring
(52 episodes)
2010
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
2009
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
Self
2009
RuPaul's Drag Race
Self - Guest Judge · (1 episode)
2009
RuPaul's Drag Race
Self - Special Guest · (1 episode)
2009
Starz Inside: In the Gutter
Self
2008
Coven of the Heathenites
Self
2008
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
Self
2007
Jessica the Hippo
Narrator (Voice)
2007
Indie Sex
Self · (1 episode)
2007
'Til Death Do Us Part
(13 episodes)
2007
The Graham Norton Show
Self · (2 episodes)
2007
Treasures Untold: The Making of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid'
Self
2006
I Love the '70s: Volume 2
Self · (10 episodes)
2006
The Henry Rollins Show
(1 episode)
2006
Footlight Parade: Music for the Decades
2006
My Name Is Earl
Walter Hamerick · (1 episode)
2005
It Came from... Baltimore!!
Self
2005
Inside Deep Throat
Self
2005
Closer Than That: A Documentary on Low
Himself
2004
Abby Singer
John Waters (uncredited)
2003
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self · (9 episodes)
2003
Sylvester: Mighty Real
Self
2002
The Cockettes
Self
2002
Memories of Oz
Self
2001
Welcome to Hollywood
John Waters
2000
Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story
Self
2000
Cecil B. Demented
Reporter
2000
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Pornmonger Man · (2 episodes)
1999
Forever Hollywood
Self
1999
Pecker
Pervert on Phone (voice) (uncredited)
1998
So Graham Norton
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
1998
Anarchy TV
1998
Anthem
Self
1997
E! True Hollywood Story
(1 episode)
1996
Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!
1996
The Daily Show
Self · (2 episodes)
1996
Family Album
Vincent · (2 episodes)
1994
Serial Mom
Ted Bundy (voice) (uncredited)
1994
Frasier
Roger (voice) · (1 episode)
1993
Homicide: Life on the Street
R. Vincent Smith · (2 episodes)
1993
HBO First Look
(1 episode)
1992
Gastronomic Getaway
1991
The Simpsons
John (voice) · (1 episode)
1989
The Incredibly Strange Film Show
Self · (2 episodes)
1988
Hairspray
Dr. Fredrickson
1988
Way USA!
1988
21 Jump Street
Mr. Bean · (1 episode)
1987
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
1985
Divine Waters
Self
1985
Edith's Shopping Bag
Self
1976
Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited) · (1 episode)
1975
Mondo Trasho
Reporter (voice) (uncredited)
1969
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter · (1 episode)
1956