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