John Waters

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.

Known For: Directing

Born: Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1946-04-22

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1972	Pink Flamingos	Mr. J (voice) (uncredited)	62
2	1975	Love Letter to Edie	Self	64
3	1986	Something Wild	Used Car Guy	66
4	1989	Homer and Eddie	Robber #1	55
5	1999	Yesterday's Tomorrows	Self	100
6	1999	Sweet and Lowdown	Mr. Haynes	68
7	2000	Divine Trash	Self	73
8	2002	Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat	The Reverend	48
9	2004	Thinking XXX	Self	55
10	2004	Seed of Chucky	Pete Peters	55
11	2006	This Film Is Not Yet Rated	Self - Director of 'A Dirty Shame'	71
12	2006	Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea	Self - Narrator (voice)	71
13	2006	Mommie Dearest: Joan Lives On		0
14	2006	Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream	Self	63
15	2006	This Filthy World	Self	78
16	2008	Obscene	Self	50
17	2008	The Wild World of Ted V. Mikels	Narrator	60
18	2009	It Came from Kuchar	Self	70
19	2010	William S. Burroughs: A Man Within	Self	66
20	2011	Mangus!	Jesus Christ	10
21	2011	The Advocate for Fagdom	Self	53
22	2012	Mansome	Self	49
23	2012	Excision	William	62
24	2013	Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open	Self	50
25	2013	Jingle Bell Rocks!	Self	0
26	2015	Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story	Self	66
27	2016	Weiner	Self (archive footage)	73
28	2021	The Velvet Underground	Self	69
29	2021	Blood, Guts and Sunshine: The History of Horror Made in Florida	Self [archival]	70
30	2022	The Book of Harth	Self	85
31	2022	All the Beauty and the Bloodshed	Self (Archive Footage)	73
32	2023	Little Richard: I Am Everything	Self	66
33		My Life with the Waters	Self	0
34	1982	No Smoking in This Theater	Self	78
35	1995	God Save the Queens		0
36	1999	In Bad Taste	Self	80
37	2002	Sylvester: Mighty Real	Self	0
38	2003	A History of Sex	Self	54
39	2005	All the Dirt on 'A Dirty Shame'	Self	74
40	2006	That Man: Peter Berlin	Self	67
41	2006	Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema	Self	57
42	2006	42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage	Self	60
43	2006	The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off & On Broadway	Self	0
44	2007	Here’s Looking at You, Boy	Self	58
45	2007	Each Time I Kill	Movie Watcher	55
46	2007	The Junior Defenders	Narrator	30
47	2008	New Line Cinema: The First Generation and the Next Generation	Self	100
48	2010	Beautiful Darling	Self	60
49	2010	Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore		62
50	2010	Uncle Bob	Self (archiveFootage)	50
51	2011	These Amazing Shadows	Self	74
52	2013	The Sarnos: A Life in Dirty Movies	Self	64
53	2014	I Am Divine	Self	74
54	2014	Suburban Gothic	Cornelius	55
55	2015	Tab Hunter Confidential	Self	74
56	2015	The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin		60
57	2016	Wall Writers	Narrator (voice)	62
58	2019	At the Video Store	Self	100
59	2022	Tell Me Iggy	Self	80
60	2022	Living with Chucky	Self	66
61	2023	Lynch/Oz	Host (Chapter 3: 'Kindred') (voice)	72
62		Mary Woronov: Cult Queen		0
63		The Brandon Novak Story	Self	0
64	1969	Mondo Trasho	Reporter (voice) (uncredited)	51
65	1976	Edith's Shopping Bag	Self	60
66	1985	The Ballad of Sexual Dependency		0
67	1985	Divine Waters	Self	72
68	1988	Way USA!		0
69	1988	Hairspray	Dr. Fredrickson	68
70	1991	Gastronomic Getaway		80
71	1993	Growing Up with John Waters	Self	0
72	1994	Serial Mom	Ted Bundy (voice) (uncredited)	67
73	1996	Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!		0
74	1997	Anthem	Self	50
75	1998	Anarchy TV		50
76	1998	Pecker	Pervert on Phone (voice) (uncredited)	61
77	1998	Welcome to Hollywood	John Waters	36
78	1999	Forever Hollywood	Self	80
79	2000	Cecil B. Demented	Reporter	64
80	2000	Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story	Self	64
81	2001	Memories of Oz	Self	68
82	2002	The Cockettes	Self	67
83	2003	Abby Singer	John Waters (uncredited)	63
84	2004	Closer Than That: A Documentary on Low	Himself	0
85	2005	Inside Deep Throat	Self	64
86	2005	It Came from... Baltimore!!	Self	72
87	2006	Meet The Kuchar Brothers		0
88	2006	I, of the Cyclops		0
89	2006	Footlight Parade: Music for the Decades		0
90	2006	Busby Berkeley's Kaleidoscopic Eyes		0
91	2006	(buz'be bur'kle) n. A Study in Style	Self	75
92	2006	Jackass Number Two	Self	66
93	2006	Treasures Untold: The Making of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid'	Self	0
94	2007	Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis	Self	66
95	2007	Hairspray	Flasher	67
96	2007	Jessica the Hippo	Narrator (Voice)	0
97	2007	Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story	Self	77
98	2007	365 Day Project		100
99	2008	Coven of the Heathenites	Self	0
100	2008	Starz Inside: In the Gutter	Self	45
101	2009	For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism	Self	57
102	2011	Blank City	Self	71
103	2012	Frankenstein: A Modern Myth	Self - Director	60
104	2015	Sympathy For The Devil: The True Story of The Process Church of the Final Judgment	Self	57
105	2015	Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip	First Class Passenger	60
106	2016	Whatever Happened to Gelitin	Self	20
107	2016	In Conversation With Director John Waters, Actress Kathleen Turner and Actress Mink Stole	Self	0
108	2017	Mansfield 66/67	Self	48
109	2017	Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution	Self	68
110	2018	Sickies Making Films	Self	50
111	2018	Crime and Beauty: Making ‘Female Trouble’		0
112	2018	Mugworth	Sir Butler	0
113	2019	Sniffing Out ‘Polyester’	Self	0
114	2019	Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn	Self	64
115	2019	30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing	Self	60
116	2020	Joel Calls Indie Film Type Dudes		0
117	2020	Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness	Host	68
118	2020	Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi	Host	64
119	2020	Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp	Host	68
120	2020	The Mystery of the Pink Flamingo	Himself	56
121	2022	Fragments of Paradise	Self	65
122	2022	A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard		60
123	2022	Don't Fall in Love with Yourself	Self (Archival)	0
124	2024	Scala!!!	Self	78
125	2024	Doc of Chucky	Self	0
126	2024	TURA!	Self (archive footage)	0
127	2024	As Time Goes By		0
128	2025	It's Dorothy!	Self	0
129	2025	Velvet Vision: The Story of James Bidgood and the Making of Pink Narcissus	Self	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Presenter	51
2	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Cameo (uncredited)	70
3	1987	21 Jump Street	Mr. Bean	72
4	1988	The Incredibly Strange Film Show	Self	100
5	1989	The Simpsons	John (voice)	80
6	1992	HBO First Look		49
7	1993	Homicide: Life on the Street	R. Vincent Smith	80
8	1993	Frasier	Roger (voice)	77
9	1994	Family Album	Vincent	39
10	1996	The Daily Show	Self	64
11	1996	E! True Hollywood Story		81
12	1998	So Graham Norton	Self - Guest	63
13	1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Pornmonger Man	79
14	2003	Real Time with Bill Maher	Self	60
15	2005	My Name Is Earl	Walter Hamerick	77
16	2006	The Henry Rollins Show		55
17	2006	I Love the '70s: Volume 2	Self	0
18	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self	72
19	2007	'Til Death Do Us Part		65
20	2007	Indie Sex	Self	52
21	2009	RuPaul's Drag Race	Self - Guest Judge	76
22	2009	RuPaul's Drag Race	Self - Special Guest	76
23	2009	Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen	Self - Guest	51
24	2010	Offspring		71
25	2010	Fish Hooks	The Yeti Lobster (voice)	64
26	2010	Fish Hooks	Ezekiel Freshwater / Hair Man (voice)	64
27	2012	Finding Your Roots	Self	62
28	2013	RuPaul Drives...	Self - Guest	50
29	2013	The Blacklist	John Waters	76
30	2014	HitRECord on TV with Joseph Gordon-Levitt	Self	61
31	2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self	53
32	2014	Clarence	Captain Tom (voice)	79
33	2016	The New Yorker Presents	Self	68
34	2016	Search Party	Sheffield	68
35	2017	FEUD	William Castle	77
36	2018	Explained	Narrator (voice)	75
37	2018	Liverspots and Astronots	O-Dor	60
38	2020	Helluva Boss	Rolando (voice)	77
39	2021	Pride	Self	70
40	2021	Chucky	Wendell Wilkins	78
41	2022	The Andy Warhol Diaries	Self	68
42	2022	Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow		60
43	2025	Everybody's Live with John Mulaney	Self - Writer and Film Director	70

John Waters

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