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John Waters
Born · April 22, 1946 (78 years old)
Known For: Directing
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Bio
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Waters, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Lynch/Oz
Host (Chapter 3: 'Kindred') (voice)
7.0
2023
Little Richard: I Am Everything
Self
6.7
2023
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Self (Archive Footage)
7.4
2022
The Book of Harth
Self
8.5
2022
Tell Me Iggy
Self
8.0
2022
Blood, Guts and Sunshine: The History of Horror Made in Florida
Self [archival]
7.0
2021
The Velvet Underground
Self
6.8
2021
Weiner
Self (archive footage)
7.3
2016
Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story
Self
6.8
2015
Jingle Bell Rocks!
Self
0.0
2013
Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open
Self
5.0
2013
I Am Divine
Self
7.4
2013
Excision
William
6.2
2012
Mansome
Self
4.9
2012
The Advocate for Fagdom
Self
5.3
2011
Mangus!
1.0
2011
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
Self
6.6
2010
Uncle Bob
Self (archiveFootage)
5.0
2010
Beautiful Darling
Self
5.8
2010
It Came from Kuchar
Self
7.0
2009
The Wild World of Ted V. Mikels
Narrator
6.0
2008
Obscene
Self
5.0
2008
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
Self
5.8
2007
This Filthy World
Self
7.8
2006
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
Himself
6.3
2006
Mommie Dearest: Joan Lives On
0.0
2006
Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea
Self - Narrator (voice)
7.1
2006
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Self - Director of 'A Dirty Shame'
7.1
2006
That Man: Peter Berlin
Self
6.7
2006
Seed of Chucky
Pete Peters
5.5
2004
Thinking XXX
Self
5.5
2004
A History of Sex
Self
5.5
2003
Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat
The Reverend
4.9
2002
Divine Trash
Self
7.3
2000
Sweet and Lowdown
Mr. Haynes
6.8
1999
In Bad Taste
Self
8.0
1999
Yesterday's Tomorrows
Self
0.0
1999
God Save the Queens
0.0
1995
Homer and Eddie
Robber #1
5.6
1989
Something Wild
Used Car Guy
6.5
1986
Love Letter to Edie
Self
6.4
1975
Pink Flamingos
Mr. J (voice) (uncredited)
6.2
1972
My Life with the Waters
Self
0.0
TURA!
Self (archive footage)
0.0
2024
Scala!!!
Self
7.9
2024
Fragments of Paradise
Self
6.7
2022
Living with Chucky
Self
6.7
2022
At the Video Store
Self
10.0
2019
Mansfield 66/67
Self
4.6
2017
Wall Writers
Narrator (voice)
6.0
2016
Whatever Happened to Gelitin
Self
2.0
2016
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
First Class Passenger
6.0
2015
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
6.0
2015
Tab Hunter Confidential
Self
7.4
2015
Suburban Gothic
Cornelius
5.5
2014
The Sarnos: A Life in Dirty Movies
Self
6.4
2013
Blank City
Self
7.0
2011
These Amazing Shadows
Self
7.4
2011
Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore
6.2
2010
New Line Cinema: The First Generation and the Next Generation
Self
10.0
2008
365 Day Project
0.0
2007
The Junior Defenders
Narrator
3.0
2007
Hairspray
Flasher
6.7
2007
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Self
6.6
2007
Each Time I Kill
Movie Watcher
5.0
2007
Jackass Number Two
Self
6.6
2006
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off & On Broadway
Self
0.0
2006
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
Self
6.0
2006
Footlight Parade: Music for the Decades
0.0
2006
Busby Berkeley's Kaleidoscopic Eyes
0.0
2006
(buz'be bur'kle) n. A Study in Style
Self
7.5
2006
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
Self
5.7
2006
Meet The Kuchar Brothers
0.0
2006
I, of the Cyclops
0.0
2006
All the Dirt on 'A Dirty Shame'
Self
7.4
2005
Growing Up with John Waters
Self
0.0
1993
No Smoking in This Theater
Self
7.8
1982
Mary Woronov: Cult Queen
0.0
The Brandon Novak Story
Self
0.0
Abby Singer
John Waters (uncredited)
4.5
2003
Sylvester: Mighty Real
Self
0.0
2002
L’estate di Joe, Liz e Richard
0.0
Doc of Chucky
Self
0.0
2024
Don't Fall in Love with Yourself
Self (Archival)
0.0
2022
The Mystery of the Pink Flamingo
Himself
5.2
2020
Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
Host
6.8
2020
Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
Host
6.4
2020
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
Host
6.8
2020
Joel Calls Indie Film Type Dudes
0.0
2020
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
Self
5.0
2019
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
Self
6.4
2019
Sniffing Out ‘Polyester’
Self
0.0
2019
Mugworth
Sir Butler
0.0
2018
Crime and Beauty: Making ‘Female Trouble’
0.0
2018
Sickies Making Films
Self
0.0
2018
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution
Self
6.8
2017
In Conversation With Director John Waters, Actress Kathleen Turner and Actress Mink Stole
Self
0.0
2016
Sympathy For The Devil: The True Story of The Process Church of the Final Judgment
Self
5.7
2015
Frankenstein: A Modern Myth
Self - Director
6.0
2012
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
Self
5.7
2009
Starz Inside: In the Gutter
Self
4.5
2008
Coven of the Heathenites
Self
0.0
2008
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
Self
7.8
2007
There's a Hippo in my House
Narrator (Voice)
0.0
2007
Treasures Untold: The Making of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid'
Self
0.0
2006
It Came from... Baltimore!!
Self
7.2
2005
Inside Deep Throat
Self
6.4
2005
Closer Than That: A Documentary on Low
Himself
0.0
2004
The Cockettes
Self
6.7
2002
Memories of Oz
Self
6.8
2001
Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story
Self
6.4
2000
Cecil B. Demented
Reporter
6.3
2000
Forever Hollywood
Self
8.0
1999
Pecker
Pervert on Phone (voice) (uncredited)
6.1
1998
Anarchy TV
5.3
1998
Anthem
Self
5.0
1997
Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!
0.0
1996
Serial Mom
Ted Bundy (voice) (uncredited)
6.8
1994
The Simpsons
John (voice) · (1 episode)
8.0
1989
Hairspray
Dr. Fredrickson
6.8
1988
21 Jump Street
Mr. Bean · (1 episode)
7.1
1987
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
0.0
1985
Divine Waters
Self
7.2
1985
Mondo Trasho
Reporter (voice) (uncredited)
5.1
1969
As Time Goes By
0.0
Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow
(1 episode)
6.0
2022
The Andy Warhol Diaries
Self · (6 episodes)
6.7
2022
Chucky
Wendell Wilkins · (1 episode)
7.9
2021
Pride
Self · (6 episodes)
7.1
2021
Liverspots and Astronots
O-Dor · (21 episodes)
6.0
2018
Explained
Narrator (voice) · (1 episode)
7.5
2018
FEUD
William Castle · (1 episode)
7.7
2017
Search Party
Sheffield · (2 episodes)
6.9
2016
The New Yorker Presents
Self · (1 episode)
7.8
2016
Clarence
Captain Tom (voice) · (1 episode)
7.9
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self · (1 episode)
5.5
2014
HitRECord on TV with Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Self · (1 episode)
6.3
2014
The Blacklist
John Waters · (1 episode)
7.6
2013
RuPaul Drives...
Self - Guest · (2 episodes)
5.0
2013
Finding Your Roots
Self · (1 episode)
6.2
2012
Fish Hooks
Ezekiel Freshwater / Hair Man (voice) · (1 episode)
6.5
2010
Fish Hooks
The Yeti Lobster (voice) · (1 episode)
6.5
2010
Offspring
(52 episodes)
7.1
2010
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
5.0
2009
RuPaul's Drag Race
Self - Guest Judge · (1 episode)
7.5
2009
RuPaul's Drag Race
Self - Special Guest · (1 episode)
7.5
2009
Indie Sex
Self · (1 episode)
5.2
2007
'Til Death Do Us Part
(13 episodes)
6.5
2007
The Graham Norton Show
Self · (2 episodes)
7.2
2007
I Love the '70s: Volume 2
Self · (10 episodes)
0.0
2006
The Henry Rollins Show
(1 episode)
5.5
2006
My Name Is Earl
Walter Hamerick · (1 episode)
7.7
2005
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self · (9 episodes)
6.0
2003
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Pornmonger Man · (2 episodes)
7.9
1999
Welcome to Hollywood
John Waters
3.8
1998
So Graham Norton
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
6.3
1998
E! True Hollywood Story
(1 episode)
8.0
1996
The Daily Show
Self · (2 episodes)
6.4
1996
Family Album
Vincent · (2 episodes)
3.9
1994
Frasier
Roger (voice) · (1 episode)
7.7
1993
Homicide: Life on the Street
R. Vincent Smith · (2 episodes)
8.0
1993
HBO First Look
(1 episode)
4.9
1992
Gastronomic Getaway
8.0
1991
The Incredibly Strange Film Show
Self · (2 episodes)
10.0
1988
Way USA!
0.0
1988
Edith's Shopping Bag
Self
6.0
1976
Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited) · (1 episode)
6.9
1975
Saturday Night Live
Self · (1 episode)
6.9
1975
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter · (1 episode)
5.0
1956