Actor
John Waters
Biography

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), Seri ...

Known For
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TURA!

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Doc of Chucky

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Scala!!!

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Lynch/Oz

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Little Richard: I Am Everything

Acting
2024 -- TURA! | Self (archive footage)
2024 -- Doc of Chucky | Self
2024 -- Scala!!! | Self
2023 -- Lynch/Oz | Host (Chapter 3: 'Kindred') (voice)
2023 -- Little Richard: I Am Everything | Self
2022 -- All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | Self (Archive Footage)
2022 -- Don't Fall in Love with Yourself | Self (Archival)
2022 -- Fragments of Paradise | Self
2022 -- Living with Chucky | Self
2022 -- The Book of Harth | Self
2022 -- Tell Me Iggy | Self
2021 -- Blood, Guts and Sunshine: The History of Horror Made in Florida | Self [archival]
2021 -- The Velvet Underground | Self
2020 -- The Mystery of the Pink Flamingo | Himself
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 |
2019 -- 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing | Self
2019 -- At the Video Store | Self
2019 -- Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn | Self
2019 -- Sniffing Out ‘Polyester’ | Self
2018 -- Mugworth | Sir Butler
2018 -- Crime and Beauty: Making ‘Female Trouble’ |
2018 -- Sickies Making Films | Self
2017 -- Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution | Self
2017 -- Mansfield 66/67 | Self
2016 -- Wall Writers | Narrator (voice)
2016 -- Weiner | Self (archive footage)
2016 -- In Conversation With Director John Waters, Actress Kathleen Turner and Actress Mink Stole | Self
2016 -- Whatever Happened to Gelitin | Self
2015 -- Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip | First Class Passenger
2015 -- Sympathy For The Devil: The True Story of The Process Church of the Final Judgment | Self
2015 -- The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin |
2015 -- Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story | Self
2015 -- Tab Hunter Confidential | Self
2014 -- Suburban Gothic | Cornelius
2013 -- Jingle Bell Rocks! | Self
2013 -- Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open | Self
2013 -- The Sarnos: A Life in Dirty Movies | Self
2013 -- I Am Divine | Self
2012 -- Frankenstein: A Modern Myth | Self - Director
2012 -- Excision | William
2012 -- Mansome | Self
2011 -- The Advocate for Fagdom | Self
2011 -- Blank City | Self
2011 -- Mangus! |
2011 -- These Amazing Shadows | Self
2010 -- William S. Burroughs: A Man Within | Self
2010 -- Uncle Bob | Self (archiveFootage)
2010 -- Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore |
2010 -- Beautiful Darling | Self
2009 -- It Came from Kuchar | Self
2009 -- For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism | Self
2008 -- The Wild World of Ted V. Mikels | Narrator
2008 -- Obscene | Self
2008 -- Starz Inside: In the Gutter | Self
2008 -- New Line Cinema: The First Generation and the Next Generation | Self
2008 -- Coven of the Heathenites | Self
2007 -- 365 Day Project |
2007 -- Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story | Self
2007 -- The Junior Defenders | Narrator
2007 -- There's a Hippo in my House | Narrator (Voice)
2007 -- Hairspray | Flasher
2007 -- Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis | Self
2007 -- Each Time I Kill | Movie Watcher
2007 -- Here’s Looking at You, Boy | Self
2006 -- This Filthy World | Self
2006 -- Treasures Untold: The Making of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid' | Self
2006 -- Jackass Number Two | Self
2006 -- The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off & On Broadway | Self
2006 -- Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream | Himself
2006 -- Mommie Dearest: Joan Lives On |
2006 -- Busby Berkeley's Kaleidoscopic Eyes |
2006 -- (buz'be bur'kle) n. A Study in Style | Self
2006 -- Footlight Parade: Music for the Decades |
2006 -- 42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage | Self
2006 -- Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea | Self - Narrator (voice)
2006 -- Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema | Self
2006 -- This Film Is Not Yet Rated | Self - Director of 'A Dirty Shame'
2006 -- That Man: Peter Berlin | Self
2006 -- I, of the Cyclops |
2006 -- Meet The Kuchar Brothers |
2005 -- It Came from... Baltimore!! | Self
2005 -- All the Dirt on 'A Dirty Shame' | Self
2005 -- Inside Deep Throat | Self
2004 -- Seed of Chucky | Pete Peters
2004 -- Thinking XXX | Self
2004 -- Closer Than That: A Documentary on Low | Himself
2003 -- Abby Singer | John Waters (uncredited)
2003 -- A History of Sex | Self
2002 -- Sylvester: Mighty Real | Self
2002 -- Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat | The Reverend
2002 -- The Cockettes | Self
2001 -- Memories of Oz | Self
2000 -- Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story | Self
2000 -- Cecil B. Demented | Reporter
2000 -- Divine Trash | Self
1999 -- Sweet and Lowdown | Mr. Haynes
1999 -- In Bad Taste | Self
1999 -- Yesterday's Tomorrows | Self
1999 -- Forever Hollywood | Self
1998 -- Welcome to Hollywood | John Waters
1998 -- Pecker | Pervert on Phone (voice) (uncredited)
1998 -- Anarchy TV |
1997 -- Anthem | Self
1996 -- Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow! |
1995 -- God Save the Queens |
1994 -- Serial Mom | Ted Bundy (voice) (uncredited)
1993 -- Growing Up with John Waters | Self
1991 -- Gastronomic Getaway |
1989 -- Homer and Eddie | Robber #1
1988 -- Hairspray | Dr. Fredrickson
1988 -- Way USA! |
1986 -- Something Wild | Used Car Guy
1985 -- Divine Waters | Self
1985 -- The Ballad of Sexual Dependency |
1982 -- No Smoking in This Theater | Self
1976 -- Edith's Shopping Bag | Self
1975 -- Love Letter to Edie | Self
1972 -- Pink Flamingos | Mr. J (voice) (uncredited)
1969 -- Mondo Trasho | Reporter (voice) (uncredited)
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