John Waters
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Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday22 April 1946 (80 years old)
Place of birthBaltimore, Maryland, USA
Known credits212
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), Serial Mom (1994), Pecker (1998), and Cecil B. Demented (2000). His films contain elements of post-moder…
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World
2026 · Self
Return to Mortville
2026 · Self
Kevin
2026 · Armando (voice)
Eddie Cochran: Don't Forget Me
2026 · Self
Gays Against Guns
2026
Sarah Squirm: Live + in the Flesh
2025 · Stage Manager
Room Temperature
2025 · Thanks
TURA!
2025 · Self
Velvet Vision: The Story of James Bidgood and the Making of Pink Narcissus
2025 · Self
It's Dorothy!
2025 · Self
A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard
2025 · Self
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
2025 · Self - Writer and Film Director
Marisa y Gomoso
2025 · Thanks
As Time Goes By
2024
Doc of Chucky
2024 · Self
Scala!!!
2024 · Self
Lynch/Oz
2023 · Host (Chapter 3: 'Kindred') (voice)
Little Richard: I Am Everything
2023 · Self
Digman!
2023 · Magnus (voice)
Don't Fall in Love with Yourself
2022 · Self (Archival)
Fragments of Paradise
2022 · Self
Living with Chucky
2022 · Self
The Book of Harth
2022 · Self
Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow
2022
Tell Me Iggy
2022 · Self
The Andy Warhol Diaries
2022 · Self
Blood, Guts and Sunshine: The History of Horror Made in Florida
2021 · Self [archival]
The Velvet Underground
2021 · Self
Chucky
2021 · Wendell Wilkins
Pride
2021 · Self
My Life with the Waters
2021 · Self
The Mystery of the Pink Flamingo
2020 · Himself
Helluva Boss
2020 · Rolando (voice)
Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
2020 · Host
Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
2020 · Host
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
2020 · Host
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time
2020 · Self - Host
Joel Calls Indie Film Type Dudes
2020
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019 · Self
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019 · Director
At the Video Store
2019 · Self
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
2019 · Self
Sniffing Out ‘Polyester’
2019 · Self
Sniffing Out ‘Polyester’
2019 · Thanks
Permanent Green Light
2019 · Thanks
Mugworth
2018 · Sir Butler
Liverspots and Astronots
2018 · O-Dor
Crime and Beauty: Making ‘Female Trouble’
2018
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